Geoffrey Charles Smith (born 1953) is a British mathematician and Senior Lecturer of Mathematics at the University of Bath. He is noted for his contributions to group theory.
He was edudated at Trinity School in Croydon, Keble College, Oxford, the University of Warwick and received his Ph.D. from the University of Manchester in 1983. His thesis, Zeta functions of torsion-free finitely generated nilpotent groups, was written under the direction of...
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Geoffrey Charles Smith (born 1953) is a British mathematician and Senior Lecturer of Mathematics at the University of Bath. He is noted for his contributions to group theory.
He was edudated at Trinity School in Croydon, Keble College, Oxford, the University of Warwick and received his Ph.D. from the University of Manchester in 1983. His thesis, Zeta functions of torsion-free finitely generated nilpotent groups, was written under the direction of Dan Segal.
He has been the leader of the United Kingdom International Mathematical Olympiad team since 2002, a position which he has held for a longer continuous period than any other person. His time as leader has seen a considerable increase in training for the team: he has overseen annual training camps in Bath, Oundle, Hungary, and immediate pre-IMO training camps, in addition to the longer-established annual camp at Trinity College, Cambridge. In his first eight years as leader (2002–2009), the UK team received 5 gold, 19 silver and 19...
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