Nisha Rathode (Editor)

Jason Behrstock

Updated on
Edit
Like
Comment
Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Reddit
Citizenship
  
United States

Fields
  
Mathematics


Name
  
Jason Behrstock

Known for
  
Geometric group theory

Doctoral advisor
  
Yair Minsky

Jason Behrstock httpsuploadwikimediaorgwikipediacommonsee

Institutions
  
City University of New York

Thesis
  
Asymptotic Geometry of the Mapping Class Group and Teichmuller Space (2004)

Doctoral students
  
Harold Sultan Timothy Susse

Notable awards
  
Simons Fellow Alfred P. Sloan Fellow Fellow of the American Mathematical Society

Institution
  
City University of New York

Alma mater
  
Stony Brook University

Jason behrstock higher dimensional isoperimetric and divergence functions for mapping class groups


Jason Behrstock is a mathematician at City University of New York known for his work in geometric group theory and low-dimensional topology.

Contents

Life and career

Behrstock was born in California and was educated in California's public school system. He received his Ph.D. from State University of New York at Stony Brook in 2004. He went to work at Columbia University and the University of Utah before his time at Lehman College, City University of New York.

Awards and honors

  • In 2009, Behrstock was award the Feliks Gross Endowment Award by the CUNY Graduate Center, a research award for young faculty.
  • In 2010, Behrstock was awarded the Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship.
  • In 2012, Behrstock became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
  • Behrstock became a Simons Fellow in 2014.

    • Selected publications

  • Behrstock, Jason A. "Asymptotic geometry of the mapping class group and Teichmüller space". Geom. Topol. 10 (2006), 1523–1578.
  • Behrstock, Jason; Druţu, Cornelia; Mosher, Lee. "Thick metric spaces, relative hyperbolicity, and quasi-isometric rigidity". Math. Ann. 344 (2009), no. 3, 543–595.
  • Behrstock, Jason A.; Minsky, Yair N. "Dimension and rank for mapping class groups". Ann. of Math. (2) 167 (2008), no. 3, 1055–1077.

    • References

    Jason Behrstock Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA