About Me:
I'm a senior lecturer in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Manchester working in the
dynamical systems group.
My main interests lie in applications of thermodynamic formalism to problems in fractal geometry and number theory, and in particular in the study of Bernoulli convolutions and self-affine sets.
Fringe interests include percolation and the graph reconstruction conjecture. My research is partially funded by EPSRC grant
EP/T010835/1
Previously I was an EPSRC funded postdoc at the University of St Andrews working with
Kenneth Falconer and before that I worked with
Karma Dajani at the
University of Utrecht. I completed my PhD at the University of Warwick in March 2011 under the
supervision of
Mark Pollicott.
My
thesis was on thermodynamic
formalism for symbolic dynamical systems.
I'm originally from Derby and have also lived in Coventry, Utrecht, Edinburgh, Helsinki, Thessaloniki, York and Manchester. I regularly take part in
Parkrun and am currently struggling to learn the Greek language. My wife
Aspa is currently a senior researcher at the VATT Institute for Economic Research in Helsinki.
Publications and Preprints:
Please see
here for my publications and preprints. Click
here for
my Google Scholar profile.
PhD and Postdoc Opportunities:
I'm not looking to take on any more PhD students or postdocs at the moment, but please feel free to get in touch and I may be able to direct you towards colleagues in the dynamics group.
I currently mentor two postdocs,
Lawrence Lee is an EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellow and
Leticia Pardo Simon is the Manchester Mathematics Fellow.
My PhD student Alexandros Batsis successfully defended his thesis in November 2021. I previously mentored
Demi Allen for a one year doctoral prize fellowship at Manchester, Demi went on to hold postdoc positions at the Heilbronn institute and at Warwick before starting a lectureship at Exeter.
Teaching:
I teach Metric Spaces and Fractal Geometry, both of which take place during the Spring semester. Full course information can be found on blackboard.
Outreach and Public Engagement:
I used to run
Mathsbombe, an online maths competition aimed primarily at students up to Year 13 (England and Wales), S6 (Scotland), Year 14 (Northern Ireland). You can find questions that I have written
here,
here,
here,
here,
here and
here.
I also take part in
Science X and the
Alan Turing Cryptography Day.
Conference and Meeting Organisation:
Together with
Thomas Jordan and
Mark Holland I organise the UK
One Day Ergodic Theory Meetings, funded by an LMS Scheme 3 grant. We also run a mailing list with announcements relevant to UK ergodic theory (including links for the online meetings)
here.
Together with
Solly Coles,
Natalia Jurga and
Rhiannon Dougall I organised a
winter school in ergodic theory at ICMS.
Together with
Xiong Jin and
Jon Fraser I organised a fractals conference at
ICMS Edinburgh.
Tom Kempton
School of Mathematics
The University of Manchester
Manchester
M13 9PL
United Kingdom
Office number 2.218
thomas.kempton@manchester.ac.uk
0044 161 3063683
