About
Nick Wright is an Associate Professor of Pure Mathematics at the University of Southampton and is Undergraduate Admissions Tutor for Mathematical Sciences.
Research
Research groups
Research interests
- Coarse geometry
- Non-commutative geometry
- The Baum-Connes conjecture
- Geometric group theory
Current research
Nick has been involved in several research projects, including Metric geometry and analysis, Cosmology and Yu's Property A, Amenability, Coarse geometry of non-positively curved spaces and K-theory and cyclic homology of affine Weyl groups.
Research projects
Completed projects
Publications
Teaching
Nick is currently teaching the 3rd year Hilbert Spaces module and the 4th year Harmonic Analysis module. Both of these modules involve extending ideas from algebra to the infinite-dimensional world.
Nick has previously taught Calculus and Analysis.
External roles and responsibilities
Biography
Senior Lecturer, University of Southampton
Lecturer, University of Southampton
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, University of Southampton
Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt University, USA
PhD (Mathematics), Penn State University, USA
BA/Part III/MA (Mathematics), University of Cambridge
Prizes
- Vice Chancellor's Award for Teaching (2013)