People
Michael Hull
Assistant Professor
Office: Petty 131
Email: mbhull@uncg.edu
Starting year at UNCG: 2019
Office Hours: MWF 10:10 a.m. -11:00 a.m.
Education
Degree(s): Ph.D. in Mathematics, Vanderbilt University (2013)
Teaching
Fall 2024- MAT-453 LEC (Foundations Math Data Science), MWF 12:00-12:50, PETT 007
- MAT-709 LEC (Topics in Computational Math), MWF 9:00-9:50, NSCI 204
Research
Member of the Research Group(s): Group Theory, Topology
Current Students: Eliana Brown (M.A.), Thomas Payne (Ph.D.), Matthew McGilvary (Ph.D.)
Former Students: Matthew McGilvary (M.A.)
Research Interests: Geometric group theory and low-dimensional topology
Selected Publications
- C. Abbott, M. Hull, Random walks and quasi-convexity in acylindrically hyperbolic groups, J. Topol. 14 (2021), 992-1026.
- P. Bubenik, M. Hull, D. Patel, B. Whittle, Persistent homology detects curvature, Inverse Problems 36 (2020), no. 2.
- M. Hull, Small cancellation in acylindrically hyperbolic groups, Groups, Geom., & Dynam. 10 (2016), no. 4, 1077-1119.
- M. Hull, D. Osin, Induced quasi-cocycles on groups with hyperbolically embedded subgroups. Alg. Geom. Topology. 13 (2013), 2635-2665.
- M. Hull, D. Osin, Conjugacy growth of finitely generated groups. Adv. Math. 235 (2013), 361-389.
Brief Biography
Michael Hull received his Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University in 2013. He was a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago from 2013 to 2016, and a Post-Doctoral Associate at the University of Florida from 2016 to 2019. His research interests include geometric group theory, low-dimensional topology, and topological data analysis.