Sophie Wright
PhD student at the University of Bristol
Room 1.23, Fry Building, School of Mathematics, Woodland Road, Bristol, BS8 1UG, UK
Email: sophie.wright@bristol.ac.uk
PhD student at the University of Bristol
Room 1.23, Fry Building, School of Mathematics, Woodland Road, Bristol, BS8 1UG, UK
Email: sophie.wright@bristol.ac.uk
I am third year maths PhD student at the University of Bristol supervised by Viveka Erlandsson (Bristol) and Juan Souto (Universite Rennes 1).
My interests lie somewhere between hyperbolic geometry, low dimensional topology and geometric group theory. I am currently thinking about studying the properties of random covers of closed surfaces.
I am co-organising the Bristol Junior Geometry Seminar (BRIJGES) this year along with Harsh Patil. This is a seminar series for junior researchers in geometry, topology and surrounding topics. If you would like to give a talk, suggest a speaker, or sign up to the seminar mailing list, please don't hesitate to contact me.
Preprint:
Random covers of surfaces - arxiv:2511.22731
Talks:
May 2026 - Gaston Darboux Geometry Seminar, University of Montpellier
May 2026 - Curve Counting Workshop, Trinity College Dublin
May 2026 - Geometry Seminar, Max Planck Institute, Leipzig
May 2026 - Southampton's Pure PhD Seminar
April 2026 - Bristol Geometry and Topology Seminar
April 2026 - Lightning talk at Geometry and Spectra of Compact Riemann Surfaces, Lausanne
March 2026 - Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar, University of Manchester
January 2026 - Geometry and Topology Seminar, Sorbonne Université
July 2025 - Heilbronn Doctoral Partnership Research Day, University of Bristol
July 2025 - Postgraduate Group Theory Conference, University of Bristol
May 2025 - Ergodic Theory seminar, Université de Rennes
November 2024 - Junior Researcher of Plato's Tetrahedron Network, Ecole Normale Supérieur, Paris
October 2024 - Oxford's Junior Topology and Group Theory seminar
September 2024 - Bristol's Mathematics Postgraduate seminar
January 2024 - Bristol's Junior Geometry seminar
Teaching
I run tutorials and mark homework for mathematics undergraduate students at the University of Bristol. In the spring term 2026 I ran support sessions and marked homework for the Year 3/4 module Fields, Forms and Flows. In the academic year 2024-25 I tutored Linear Algebra in TB1 and Analysis in TB2. Previously I tutored Linear Algebra in 2023-24.