Jason Behrstock

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Citizenship United States Fields Mathematics		Name Jason Behrstock Known for Geometric group theory Doctoral advisor Yair Minsky

Institutions City University of New York Thesis Asymptotic Geometry of the Mapping Class Group and Teichmuller Space (2004) Doctoral students Harold SultanTimothy Susse Notable awards Simons FellowAlfred P. Sloan FellowFellow 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.

Jason Behrstock 2017, Heirarchically Hyperbolic Spaces

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

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