Dr. Simon Salamon

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Biography

Simon Salamon joined King's College London as a Professor of Geometry in 2011 after holding a similar position at Politecnico di Torino since 2000. He completed his doctorate under the supervision of Nigel Hitchin and has worked at prestigious institutions including Maryland, Pisa, and Princeton. He has also held a lectureship at the University of Oxford and was briefly a reader at Imperial College London. Salamon was the Head of the Mathematics Department at King's College London from 2013 to 2017. His primary research focuses on differential geometry with particular emphasis on the study of manifolds, especially Riemannian and complex ones, often defined via the action of Lie groups. His current work involves the construction of Ricci-flat metrics and contributions to the Simons Collaboration on Special Holonomy, Geometry, Analysis, and Physics. Salamon's research interests encompass Twistor spaces, projective geometry, complex manifolds, quaternionic geometries, harmonic maps, and combinatorial geometry. He is also involved in mathematical software visualization projects.

Research Interests

Experience

Professor of Geometry

2011-01-01 — Present

King's College London • London, ENG

Joined King's College London as a Professor of Geometry.

Requirements for King's College London

Master Program
Requirements
GPA Requirement
Required:3.3
IELTS
Listening
Required:6.5
Reading
Required:6.5
Writing
Required:6.5
Speaking
Required:6.5
Overall
Required:7
TOEFL
Listening
Required:23
Reading
Required:23
Writing
Required:25
Speaking
Required:23
Total
Required:100
Prerequisites
Bachelor's degree in a relevant subject Quantitative competency (for some Economics/Finance programs)
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