Yair Nathan Minsky (born in 1962) is an Israeli-American mathematician whose research concerns three-dimensional topology, differential geometry, group theory and holomorphic dynamics. He is a professor at Yale University. [1] He is known for having proved Thurston's ending lamination conjecture and as a student of curve complex geometry.
Minsky obtained his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1989 under the supervision of William Paul Thurston, with the thesis Harmonic Maps and Hyperbolic Geometry. [2]
His Ph.D. students include Jason Behrstock, Erica Klarreich, Hossein Namazi and Kasra Rafi. [2]
He received a Sloan Fellowship in 1995. [3] [4]
He was a speaker at the ICM (Madrid) 2006.
He was named to the 2021 class of fellows of the American Mathematical Society "for contributions to hyperbolic 3-manifolds, low-dimensional topology, geometric group theory and Teichmuller theory". [5] He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2023. [6]
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