Home Page for Joan Birman
Professional Information
- Title:
Research Professor Barnard College-Columbia University, Professor Emeritus
I also am an Affiliated Professor at the University of Haifa, one of the universities the British academic union has voted to boycott.
- Educational Background:
Ph.D., Courant Institute of New York University
Contact Information:
- Office Location:
604 Mathematics, Columbia University
- Office Phone:
(212) 854-4341 or (212) 854-3950
- E-mail:
jb@math.columbia.edu
- Departmental Fax:
(212) 854-8962
- Departmental Mailing Address:
Department of Mathematics, Barnard-Columbia
2990 Broadway
New York, NY 10027
Office Hours: by appointment.
Research Interests:knots, braids,
3-manifolds, mapping class groups of surfaces;
related topics
in geometric group theory, algorithms, contact geometry, dynamical systems
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