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Professor has been awarded a prestigious for 2014鈥�15 to investigate 鈥淥uter spaces in geometric group theory鈥�.

Groups are algebraic objects that encode symmetry, which explains why they are fundamental to all of mathematics and the physical sciences. Groups themselves have symmetries called automorphisms, and the simplest groups often have the most complex and interesting autoorphism groups. Professor Vogtmann works on developing geometric tools for studying such automorphism groups. This specific project concentrates on outer automorphism groups of free groups and more generally of right-angled Artin groups, a class of groups particularly relevant to recent breakthroughs in 3-manifold topology.

The awards, which are administered by the , are jointly funded by the and the ; the scheme aims to provide universities with additional support to enable them to attract science talent from overseas and to retain respected UK scientists of outstanding achievement and potential.