Dr. Sam Hughes

Profile

Academic positionPost Doc
Research fieldsGroup theory and generalizations,Algebraic topology
KeywordsHyperbolic manifolds, geometric group theory, Fundamental groups of projective varieties, Profinite rigidity

Current contact address

CountryGermany
CityBonn
InstitutionRheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
InstituteMathematisches Institut (MI)

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Giles GardamMathematisches Institut (MI), Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Bonn
Start of initial sponsorship01/10/2024

Programme(s)

2023Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs

Publications (partial selection)

2024Hughes, Sam and Kielak, Dawid and Kropholler, Peter H. and Leary, Ian J.: Coherence for elementary amenable groups. In: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc., 152, 2024, 977--986
2024Hughes, Sam and Valiunas, Motiejus: Commensurating {HNN}-extensions: hierarchical hyperbolicity and biautomaticity. In: Comment. Math. Helv., 99, 2024, 397--436
2024Fisher, Sam P. and Hughes, Sam and Leary, Ian J.: Homological growth of {A}rtin kernels in positive characteristic. In: Math. Ann., 389, 2024, 819--843
2023Hughes, Sam: A note on the rational homological dimension of lattices in positive characteristic. In: Glasg. Math. J., 65, 2023, 138--140
2023Hughes, Sam: Cohomology of {F}uchsian groups and non-{E}uclidean crystallographic groups. In: Manuscripta Math., 170, 2023, 659--676
2023Hughes, Sam and Mart\'inez-Pedroza, Eduardo: Hyperbolically embedded subgroups and quasi-isometries of pairs. In: Canad. Math. Bull., 66, 2023, 827--843
2023Hughes, Sam and Mart\'inez-Pedroza, Eduardo and S\'anchez Salda\~na, Luis Jorge: Quasi-isometry invariance of relative filling functions (with an appendix by {A}shot {M}inasyan). In: Groups Geom. Dyn., 17, 2023, 1483--1515
2022Hughes, Sam and Li, Kevin: Higher topological complexity of hyperbolic groups. In: J. Appl. Comput. Topol., 6, 2022, 323--329
2022Hughes, Sam: Lattices in a product of trees, hierarchically hyperbolic groups and virtual torsion-freeness. In: Bull. Lond. Math. Soc., 54, 2022, 1413--1419
2021Hughes, Sam: On the equivariant {$K$}- and {$KO$}-homology of some special linear groups. In: Algebr. Geom. Topol., 21, 2021, 3483--3512
2021Gill, Nick and Hughes, Sam: The character table of a sharply 5-transitive subgroup of the alternating group of degree 12. In: Int. J. Group Theory, 10, 2021, 11--30
2021Chatterji, Indira and Hughes, Sam and Kropholler, Peter: The first {$\ell^2$}-{B}etti number and groups acting on trees. In: Proc. Edinb. Math. Soc. (2), 64, 2021, 916--923