Staff profile

• Dynamics
• Number Theory
• Spectral Theory

• 2023: Von Neumann Fellowship, IAS Princeton:
• 2023: Philip Leverhulme Prize:
• 2021: ERC Starting Grant:
• 2021: LMS Whitehead Prize: LMS Whitehead prize

Conference Paper

• Collins, B., Magee, M., & Puder, D. (2018, July). Automorphism-invariant positive definite functions on free groups. Paper presented at 27th International Conference in Operator Theory (OT27), Timisoara

Journal Article

• Magee, M. Random Unitary Representations of Surface Groups II: The large n limit [preprint]. Manuscript submitted for publication
• Magee, M. (in press). Random Unitary Representations of Surface Groups II: The large n limit. Geometry & Topology,
• Magee, M., Thomas, J., & Zhao, Y. (2023). Quantum Unique Ergodicity for Cayley graphs of quasirandom groups. Communications in Mathematical Physics, 402, 3021-3044. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00220-023-04801-x
• Hide, W., & Magee, M. (2023). Near optimal spectral gaps for hyperbolic surfaces. Annals of Mathematics, 198(2), 791-824. https://doi.org/10.4007/annals.2023.198.2.6
• Magee, M., & Puder, D. (2023). The Asymptotic Statistics of Random Covering Surfaces. Forum of mathematics. Pi, 11, Article e15. https://doi.org/10.1017/fmp.2023.13
• Magee, M., & Puder, D. (2022). Matrix group integrals, surfaces, and mapping class groups II: O(n) and Sp(n). Mathematische Annalen, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00208-022-02542-1
• Magee, M., & Puder, D. (2022). Core surfaces. Geometriae Dedicata, 216(4), Article 46. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10711-022-00706-6
• Magee, M., Naud, F., & Puder, D. (2022). A random cover of a compact hyperbolic surface has relative spectral gap 3/16 - ϵ. Geometric And Functional Analysis, 32(3), 595-661. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00039-022-00602-x
• Magee, M. (2022). Random Unitary Representations of Surface Groups I: Asymptotic expansions. Communications in Mathematical Physics, 391(1), 119-171. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00220-021-04295-5
• Magee, M., & Puder, D. (2021). Surface Words are Determined by Word Measures on Groups. Israel Journal of Mathematics, 241, 749-774. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11856-021-2113-5
• Courcy-Ireland, M. D., & Magee, M. (2021). Kesten-McKay law for the Markoff surface mod p. Annales Henri Lebesgue, 4, 227-250. https://doi.org/10.5802/ahl.71
• Magee, M., & Naud, F. (2020). Explicit spectral gaps for random covers of Riemann surfaces. Publications mathématiques de l'IHÉS, 132(1), 137-179. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10240-020-00118-w
• Magee, M. (2020). Counting One-Sided Simple Closed Geodesics on Fuchsian Thrice Punctured Projective Planes. International Mathematics Research Notices, 2020(13), 3886-3901. https://doi.org/10.1093/imrn/rny112
• Cerbu, A., Gunther, E., Magee, M., & Peilen, L. (2020). The cycle structure of a Markoff automorphism over finite fields. Journal of Number Theory, 211, 1-27. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnt.2019.09.022
• Magee, M. (2019). On Selberg's Eigenvalue Conjecture for moduli spaces of abelian differentials. Compositio Mathematica, 155(12), 2354-2398. https://doi.org/10.1112/s0010437x1900767x
• Magee, M., & Puder, D. (2019). Matrix group integrals, surfaces, and mapping class groups I: U(n). Inventiones Mathematicae, 218(2), 341-411. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00222-019-00891-4
• Gamburd, A., Magee, M., & Ronan, R. (2019). An asymptotic formula for integer points on Markoff-Hurwitz varieties. Annals of Mathematics, 190(3), 751-809. https://doi.org/10.4007/annals.2019.190.3.2
• Magee, M., Oh, H., & Winter, D. (2019). Uniform congruence counting for Schottky semigroups in SL2(𝐙). Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik, 2019(753), 89-135. https://doi.org/10.1515/crelle-2016-0072
• Gutiérrez-Romo, R., Magee, M., & Rühr, R. (2019). Counting saddle connections in a homology class modulo q. Journal of Modern Dynamics, 15, 237-262. https://doi.org/10.3934/jmd.2019020
• Magee, M. (2015). Arithmetic, zeros, and nodal domains on the sphere. Communications in Mathematical Physics, 338(3), 919-951. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00220-015-2391-z
• Magee, M. (2015). Quantitative spectral gap for thin groups of hyperbolic isometries. Journal of the European Mathematical Society, 17(1), 151-187. https://doi.org/10.4171/jems/500