Jason Alan Behrstock | |
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Citizenship | United States |
Alma mater | State University of New York at Stony Brook |
Known for | Geometric group theory |
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Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | Lehman College CUNY Graduate Center |
Thesis | Asymptotic Geometry of the Mapping Class Group and Teichmüller Space (2004) |
Doctoral advisor | Yair Minsky |
Jason Alan Behrstock is a mathematician at the City University of New York known for his work in geometric group theory and low-dimensional topology. [1]
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]
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