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Professor Ian Leary is a faculty member in the Department of Pure Mathematics at the University of Southampton, where he has been employed since 2011. He previously held positions at The Ohio State University and the University of Southampton, including roles as a Postdoctoral Fellow at institutions like ETH Zurich and MPI Bonn. His research focuses on Geometric Group Theory, Cohomology of Groups, and Classifying Spaces for Families of Subgroups, with a particular emphasis on constructing groups via graphical small cancellation and studying their residual properties.
Current research projects include exploring the residual finiteness of generalized Bestvina-Brady groups, groups acting on products of trees and Euclidean space, and classifying spaces for families. His work often involves collaboration with PhD students such as Tom Brown, Vlad Vankov, Sam Hughes, and Kevin Li (jointly supervised with Nansen Petrosyan). Notable grants and awards include an LMS Symposium 2013 funded by EPSRC and a Leverhulme Fellowship.
Ian supervises a number of PhD students, including Denver-James Logan Marchment, Lewis Richard Stanton, George James Davenport, Jon Francisco Xavier Merladet Uriguen, Kamen Valentinov Pavlov, and Maximilian David Hans. His teaching spans courses like Representation Theory, Number Theory, and Algebraic Topology, alongside supervising BSc/MMath projects. His publications cover topics such as fusion systems, coherence in groups, and torsion subgroups, reflecting his broad expertise in group theory and topology.
