Daniel Wise

Education Daniel Wise obtained his PhD from Princeton University in 1996 supervised by Martin Bridson. His thesis was titled non-positively curved squared complexes, aperiodic tilings, and non-residually finite groups. In 2009 he announced a solution to the virtually fibered conjecture for cusped hyperbolic 3-manifolds. This was a consequence of his work on the structure of groups with a quasiconvex hierarchy which proved the virtual specialness of a broad class of hyperbolic groups, and established a program for using cube complexes to understand many infinite groups. This subsequently played a key role in the proof of the Virtually Haken conjecture.

Selected publications

Wise, Daniel T. From Riches to Raags: 3-Manifolds, Right-Angled Artin Groups and Cubical Geometry (AMS Lecture Notes, 2012).

Awards and honors In 2016 he was awarded the Jeffery–Williams Prize and the CRM-Fields-PIMS Prize. In 2016 Wise was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (FRSC) in 2014 and a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2018. For the theory of special cube complexes and his establishment of subgroup separability for a wide class of groups, Daniel Wise together with Ian Agol was awarded in 2013 the Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry. In 2019, he was awarded the Lobachevsky Prize for his contributions to the virtual Haken conjecture.