Mathematics Institute News
16th July 2014: Karen Vogtmann wins the Humboldt Research Prize
On Thursday 3rd June was awarded a (Humboldt Research Award) from the in Germany.
The award is granted in recognition of a researcher's lifetime achievements to academics whose fundamental discoveries, new theories, or insights have had a significant impact on their own discipline and who are expected to continue producing cutting-edge achievements in the future. Vogtmann was cited as an internationally renowned leader in the rapidly growing field of geometric group theory, who has made important contributions to our understanding of the automorphism groups of free groups. The introduction of what came to be known as Culler鈥揤ogtmann space or 鈥渙uter space鈥� opened the way for a geometric study of these groups and their homology. In Germany, she will investigate combinatorial boundaries for outer space as well as instances of the Farrell鈥揓ones conjecture.
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