Daniel Wise

Daniel T. Wise (born January 24, 1971) is an American mathematician who specializes in geometric group theory and 3-manifolds.

He is a professor of mathematics at McGill University.

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.

Wise's research has focused on the role of non-positively curved cube complexes within geometric group theory and their interplay with residual finiteness.

His early work was taken to higher dimensions when he introduced with Frédéric Haglund the theory of special cube complexes.

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.

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.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (FRSC) in 2014 and a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2018.

In 2016 he was awarded the Jeffery–Williams Prize

and the CRM-Fields-PIMS Prize.

In 2016 Wise was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.

In 2019, he was awarded the Lobachevsky Prize for his contributions to the virtual Haken conjecture.