Jason Behrstock
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Jason Behrstock in 2010
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| Citizenship | United States |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | City University of New York |
| Alma mater | State University of New York at Stony Brook |
| Thesis | Asymptotic Geometry of the Mapping Class Group and Teichmüller Space (2004) |
| Doctoral advisor | Yair Minsky |
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| Known for | Geometric group theory |
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Jason Behrstock is a mathematician at City University of New York known for his work in geometric group theory and low-dimensional topology.[1]
Life and career
Behrstock was born in California and was educated in California's public school system.[2] He received his Ph.D. from State University of New York at Stony Brook in 2004.[3] He went to work at Columbia University and the University of Utah before his time at Lehman College, City University of New York.[4]
Awards and honors
- In 2009, Behrstock was award the Feliks Gross Endowment Award by the CUNY Graduate Center, a research award for young faculty.[5]
- In 2010, Behrstock was awarded the Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship.[4]
- In 2012, Behrstock became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[6]
- Behrstock became a Simons Fellow in 2014.[7]
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.
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