Yair Minsky
Yair Minsky, in Oberwolfach (2004)
Yair Nathan Minsky (born in 1962) is an American mathematician whose research concerns three-dimensional topology, differential geometry, group theory and holomorphic dynamics. He is a professor at Yale University.[1]
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]
He received a Sloan Fellowship in 1995.[3][4]
His Ph.D. students include Jason Behrstock, Erica Klarreich and Kasra Rafi.[2]
Selected invited talks
- ICM (Madrid) 2006
- Coxeter lectures (Fields Institute) 2006
- Mallat Lectures (Technion) 2008
Selected publications
- with Howard Masur: "Geometry of the complex of curves I: Hyperbolicity", Inventiones mathematicae, 138 (1), 103–149.
- with Howard Masur: "Geometry of the complex of curves II: Hierarchical structure", Geometric and Functional Analysis, 10 (4), 902–974.
- "The classification of Kleinian surface groups, I: Models and bounds", Annals of Mathematics, 171 (2010), 1–107.
- with Jeffrey Brock, and Richard Canary: "The classification of Kleinian surface groups, II: The ending lamination conjecture", Annals of Mathematics, 176 (2012), 1–149.
- "The classification of punctured-torus groups", Annals of Mathematics, 149 (1999), 559–626.
- "On rigidity, limit sets, and end invariants of hyperbolic 3-manifolds", Journal of the American Mathematical Society, 7 (3), 539–588.
See also
Quotes
- “When Thurston proposed it, the virtual Haken conjecture seemed like a small question, but it hung on stubbornly, shining a spotlight on how little we knew about the field.”[5]
References
- ↑ Minsky's home page at Yale University
- 1 2 Yair Nathan Minsky at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
- ↑ Stony Brook University
- ↑ Klarreich, Erica (2 October 2012), "Getting Into Shapes: From Hyperbolic Geometry to Cube Complexes and Back", Quanta Magazine
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