Associate Professor Anne Thomas
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Associate Professor Anne Thomas

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+61 2 9351 3357
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F07 - Carslaw Building
The University of Sydney
Associate Professor Anne Thomas

PhD 2007 University of Chicago

My research interests include geometric group theory, Coxeter groups and buildings. Most of my work concerns actions of discrete groups on nonpositively curved spaces, and I often collaborate with researchers from other areas of mathematics.

Publications

Books

  • Thomas, A. (2018). Geometric and Topological Aspects of Coxeter Groups and Buildings. Zurich, Switzerland: European Mathematical Society Publishing House.

Book Chapters

  • Margalit, D., Thomas, A. (2017). Quasi-isometries. In Matt Clay, Dan Margalit (Eds.), Office Hours with a Geometric Group Theorist, (pp. 125-145). New Jersey: Princeton University Press. [More Information]
  • Thomas, A. (2016). Lattices in hyperbolic buildings. In C. S. Aravinda, F. T. Farrell, J.-F. Lafont (Eds.), Geometry, Topology, and Dynamics in Negative Curvature, (pp. 345-363). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [More Information]
  • Farb, B., Hruska, C., Thomas, A. (2011). Problems on automorphism groups of nonpositively curved polyhedral complexes and their lattices. In Benson Farb and David Fisher (Eds.), Geometry, Rigidity, and Group Actions, (pp. 515-560). USA: The University of Chicago Press.

Journals

  • Schillewaert, J., Struyven, K., Thomas, A. (2025). Fixed points for group actions on 2-dimensional affine buildings. Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society, 57(1), 285-301. [More Information]
  • Brownlowe, N., Spielberg, J., Thomas, A., Wu, V. (2025). Group actions on multitrees and the $K$-theory of their crossed products. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, 378(5), 1697-1732. [More Information]
  • Milicevic, E., Naqvi, Y., Schwer, P., Thomas, A. (2024). A Gallery Model for Affine Flag Varieties via Chimney Retractions. Transformation Groups, 29, 773-821. [More Information]

Conferences

  • Thomas, A. (2018). Automorphism groups of combinatorial structures. Winter of Disconnectedness - MATRIX, Cham, Switzerland: Springer.

2025

  • Schillewaert, J., Struyven, K., Thomas, A. (2025). Fixed points for group actions on 2-dimensional affine buildings. Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society, 57(1), 285-301. [More Information]
  • Brownlowe, N., Spielberg, J., Thomas, A., Wu, V. (2025). Group actions on multitrees and the $K$-theory of their crossed products. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, 378(5), 1697-1732. [More Information]

2024

  • Milicevic, E., Naqvi, Y., Schwer, P., Thomas, A. (2024). A Gallery Model for Affine Flag Varieties via Chimney Retractions. Transformation Groups, 29, 773-821. [More Information]

2023

  • Parreau, A., Leung, H., Schillewaert, J., Thomas, A. (2023). Affine buildings: construction by norms and study of isometries. Innovations in Incidence Geometry, 20(2), 471-517. [More Information]
  • Milicevic, E., Schwer, P., Thomas, A. (2023). Affine Deligne-Lusztig varieties and folded galleries governed by chimneys. Annales de l'Institut Fourier, 73(6), 2469-2541. [More Information]
  • Milićević, E., Schwer, P., Thomas, A. (2023). Chimney retractions in affine buildings encode orbits in affine flag varieties. Innovations in Incidence Geometry, 20(2), 395-430. [More Information]

2019

  • Milicevic, E., Schwer, P., Thomas, A. (2019). Dimensions of Affine Deligne–Lusztig Varieties: A New Approach Via Labeled Folded Alcove Walks and Root Operators. Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society, 261(1260), 1-113. [More Information]

2018

  • Thomas, A. (2018). Automorphism groups of combinatorial structures. Winter of Disconnectedness - MATRIX, Cham, Switzerland: Springer.
  • Dani, P., Stark, E., Thomas, A. (2018). Commensurability for certain right-angled Coxeter groups and geometric amalgams of free groups. Groups, Geometry, and Dynamics, 12(4), 1273-1341. [More Information]
  • Thomas, A. (2018). Geometric and Topological Aspects of Coxeter Groups and Buildings. Zurich, Switzerland: European Mathematical Society Publishing House.

2017

  • Pallavi, D., Thomas, A. (2017). Bowditch's JSJ tree and the quasi-isometry classification of certain Coxeter groups. Journal of Topology, 10(4), 1066-1106. [More Information]
  • Brownlowe, N., Mundey, A., Pask, D., Spielberg, J., Thomas, A. (2017). C*-algebras associated to graphs of groups. Advances in Mathematics, 316, 114-186. [More Information]
  • Margalit, D., Thomas, A. (2017). Quasi-isometries. In Matt Clay, Dan Margalit (Eds.), Office Hours with a Geometric Group Theorist, (pp. 125-145). New Jersey: Princeton University Press. [More Information]

2016

  • Thomas, A. (2016). Lattices in hyperbolic buildings. In C. S. Aravinda, F. T. Farrell, J.-F. Lafont (Eds.), Geometry, Topology, and Dynamics in Negative Curvature, (pp. 345-363). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [More Information]

2015

  • Giudici, M., Li, C., Seress, A., Thomas, A. (2015). Characterising vertex-star transitive and edge-star transitive graphs. Israel Journal of Mathematics, 205(1), 35-72. [More Information]
  • Capdeboscq, I., Rumynin, D., Thomas, A. (2015). Cocompact lattices on \tilde{A}_n buildings buildings. Glasgow Mathematical Journal, 57(2), 241-256. [More Information]
  • Dani, P., Thomas, A. (2015). Divergence in right-angled Coxeter groups. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, 367(5), 3549-3577. [More Information]

2013

  • Capdeboscq, I., Thomas, A. (2013). Cocompact lattices in complete kac-moody groups with weyl group right-angled or a free product of spherical special subgroups. Mathematical Research Letters, 20(2), 339-358. [More Information]

2012

  • Kubena, A., Thomas, A. (2012). Density of commensurators for uniform lattices of right-angled buildings. Journal of Group Theory, 15(5), 565-611. [More Information]
  • Thomas, A. (2012). Existence, covolumes and infinite generation of lattices for Davis complexes. Groups, Geometry, and Dynamics, 6(4), 765-801. [More Information]
  • Capdeboscq, I., Thomas, A. (2012). Lattices in complete rank 2 Kac-Moody groups. Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra, 216(2012), 1348-1371. [More Information]

2011

  • Thomas, A., Wortman, K. (2011). Infinite generation of non-cocompact lattices on right-angled buildings. Algebraic and Geometric Topology, 11(2), 929-938. [More Information]
  • Farb, B., Hruska, C., Thomas, A. (2011). Problems on automorphism groups of nonpositively curved polyhedral complexes and their lattices. In Benson Farb and David Fisher (Eds.), Geometry, Rigidity, and Group Actions, (pp. 515-560). USA: The University of Chicago Press.

2010

  • Lim, S., Thomas, A. (2010). Counting Overlattices for Polyhedral Complexes. Topology Proceedings, 36, 229-247.

2008

  • Lim, S., Thomas, A. (2008). Covering Theory for Complexes of Groups. Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra, 212(7), 1632-1663. [More Information]

2007

  • Thomas, A. (2007). Covolumes of Uniform Lattices Acting on Polyhedral Complexes. Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society, 39, 103-111. [More Information]
  • Thomas, A. (2007). On the set of covolumes of lattices for Fuchsian buildings. Academie des Sciences. Comptes Rendus. Mathematique, 344, 215-218. [More Information]

2006

  • Thomas, A. (2006). Lattices acting on right-angled buildings. Algebraic and Geometric Topology, 6, 1215-1238. [More Information]

Selected Grants

2018

  • Large scale geometry of Coxeter groups, Thomas A, DVC Research/Brown Fellowships
  • Affine flags, Euclidean reflection groups and folded galleries, Thomas A, Milicevic E, Schwer P, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP)

2010

  • Lattices in locally compact groups, Thomas A, Capdeboscq I, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP)