Michael Magee (mathematician)

Michael Magee is a Northern Irish mathematician. He is Professor of Mathematics at Durham University.^[1]

Magee studied mathematics at the University of Cambridge, graduating with first-class honours in 2007, and completed Part III the following year.^[2] He received his PhD in 2014 from the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he was supervised by Alexander Gamburd.^[2] In 2022, Magee, working alongside his doctoral student Will Hide, confirmed the existence of a conjecture about complex surfaces dating back to 1984.^[3]

He was awarded the Whitehead Prize by the London Mathematical Society in 2021, and the Philip Leverhulme Prize in 2023.^[4][5]

Selected publications

• Gamburd, Alexander; Magee, Michael; Ronan, Ryan (2019). "An asymptotic formula for integer points on Markoff–Hurwitz varieties". Annals of Mathematics. 190 (3): 751–809. arXiv:1603.06267. doi:10.4007/annals.2019.190.3.2.
• Magee, Michael; Naud, Frédéric; Puder, Doron (2022). "A random cover of a compact hyperbolic surface has relative spectral gap 3/16 − ε". Geometric and Functional Analysis. 32 (3): 595–661. arXiv:2003.10911. doi:10.1007/s00039-022-00602-x.
• Hide, Will; Magee, Michael (2023). "Near optimal spectral gaps for hyperbolic surfaces". Annals of Mathematics. 198 (2): 791–824. arXiv:2107.05292. doi:10.4007/annals.2023.198.2.6.
• Magee, Michael; Puder, Doron (2023). "The asymptotic statistics of random covering surfaces". Forum of Mathematics, Pi. 11: e15. arXiv:2003.05892. doi:10.1017/fmp.2023.13.
• Louder, Lars; Magee, Michael; Hide, Will (2025). "Strongly convergent unitary representations of limit groups". Journal of Functional Analysis. 288 (6) 110803. arXiv:2210.08953. doi:10.1016/j.jfa.2024.110803.