David Hume

David Hume

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About me

I am currently a Heilbronn Research Fellow at the University of Bristol.
Previously, I spent a month at Bar-Ilan university working with Gideon Amir; two years at UCLouvain working with Pierre-Emmanuel Caprace; a year at Université Paris-Sud, Orsay working with Romain Tessera; and I was the (first) McDuff Postdoctoral Fellow at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute during the Fall 2016 semester. From 2017-2020, I was a Titchmarsh Research Fellow in the Topology group at the University of Oxford, a Junior Research Fellow at St Cross College and an Enterprise Fellow of the Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division.

I completed my PhD at the University of Oxford under the supervision of Cornelia Drutu, and wrote a Master's thesis at the University of Birmingham under the supervision of Ralf Köhl.
My PhD thesis is available for download here and my master's thesis here.

You can watch me giving a conference talk at the Isaac Newton Institute here, and a podcast about the Sierpinski carpet here.

Research interests

Geometric group theory
Gromov hyperbolic groups and their generalisations
Coarse geometry and embeddings

Teaching

I am currently teaching a graduate (TCC) course on Coarse Geometry of Groups and Spaces.
I recently gave two talks on Kazhdan's Property (T) for the LMS Youtube Channel.
Lecture 1. Unannotated Slides. Annotated Slides.
Lecture 2. Unannotated Slides. Annotated Slides.
I completed my Developing Learning and Teaching SEDA PDF Supporting Learning Award in April 2019.
In spring 2018 I taught a graduate (TCC) course on Totally Disconnected Locally Compact Groups.

Outreach

Some of my ramblings about expanders can be found here.

Publications

Selected previous conference talks

Geometric and Asymptotic Group Theory with Applications Edinburgh, June 2020. (Postponed to 2021)
LMS South Wales & South West Regional Meeting Bristol, January 2020.
Of coarse! Quasi-isometries: rigidity and classification Ventotene, Italy, Sep 2019.
Groups with hyperbolic features ETH Zurich, Aug 2019.
Young Geometric Group Theory VII, Les Diablerets, Switzerland 2018 (Invited)
Asymptotic decomposition methods in geometry, dynamics and operator algebras, University of Southampton, April 2017
Non-positive curvature in action, INI Cambridge, January 2017 (to watch, click here)
Generalizations of Symmetric Spaces, Nahsholim, Israel, June 2015
Arbeitsgemeinschaft: Totally Disconnected Groups, MRI Oberwolfach, October 2014
Geometry on Groups and Spaces (ICM Satellite), KAIST, Daejeon, South Korea, August 2014
American Mathematical Society Western Sectional Meeting, University of Hawaii at Manoa, February 2012

Contact information

E-mail: david [dot] hume [at] bristol [dot] ac [dot] uk
Address: School of Mathematics, Fry Building, Bristol, BS8 1UG.