Jason Behrstock Explained

Jason Alan Behrstock
Citizenship:	United States
Fields:	Mathematics
Workplaces:	Lehman College CUNY Graduate Center
Alma Mater:	State University of New York at Stony Brook
Thesis Title:	Asymptotic Geometry of the Mapping Class Group and Teichmüller Space
Thesis Year:	2004
Doctoral Advisor:	Yair Minsky
Known For:	Geometric group theory
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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]

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. He went to work at Columbia University and the University of Utah before his time at Lehman College, City University of New York.

In 2009, Behrstock was award the Feliks Gross Endowment Award by the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, a research award for young faculty.^[3]
In 2010, Behrstock was awarded the Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship.^[4]
In 2012, Behrstock became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.^[5]
Behrstock became a Simons Fellow in 2014.^[6]

Behrstock, Jason A. "Asymptotic geometry of the mapping class group and Teichmüller space". Geom. Topol. 10 (2006), pages 1523–1578.
Behrstock, Jason; Druţu, Cornelia; Mosher, Lee. "Thick metric spaces, relative hyperbolicity, and quasi-isometric rigidity". Math. Ann. 344 (2009), number 3, pages 543–595.
Behrstock, Jason A.; Minsky, Yair N. "Dimension and rank for mapping class groups". Ann. of Math. (2) 167 (2008), number 3, pages 1055–1077.

Web site: Jason Behrstock. Feb 6, 2015.
News: The Meridian. PROFESSOR JASON BEHRSTOCK WINS ALFRED P. SLOAN RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP. Apr 1, 2010. Feb 6, 2015.
Web site: Lehman Economics Professor Wins Feliks Gross Award. May 3, 2012. Lehman College, City University of New York. Lehman Today. Feb 6, 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150206202429/http://wp.lehman.edu/lehman-today/2012/05/lehman-economics-professor-wins-feliks-gross-award/. February 6, 2015. dead. The article is about another recipient, but mentions Behrstock.
News: Prestigious Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship Awarded to Lehman Mathematics Professor Jason Behrstock. Lehman Today. Lehman College, City University of New York. Mar 1, 2010. Feb 6, 2015.
http://www.ams.org/profession/fellows-list List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
Web site: Simons Fellows Awardees: Mathematics. Feb 6, 2015.