Oscar Randal-Williams
Oscar Randal-Williams is a British mathematician and professor at the University of Cambridge, working in topology.
Career
Randal-Williams studied mathematics at the University of Oxford, where he wrote his doctoral thesis Stable moduli spaces of manifolds under the supervision of Ulrike Tillmann. Since 2012 he has been at the University of Cambridge, since 2017 as reader, since 2020 as professor, and since 2024 as the Sadleirian Professor of Pure Mathematics.In joint work with Søren Galatius, he studied moduli spaces of manifolds, leading to a sequence of papers about which his coauthor talked at the ICM 2014.