Howard Masur

Howard Alan Masur is an American mathematician who works on topology, geometry and combinatorial group theory.[1][2]

Howard Alan Masur
Howard Masur in Oberwolfach, 2014
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Biography

Masur was an invited speaker at the 1994 International Congress of Mathematicians in Zürich.[3] and is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[4]

Along with Yair Minsky, Masur is one of the pioneers of the study of curve complex geometry.[5] He also contributed to the understanding of the convergence of geodesic rays in Teichmüller theory.[6]

Masur was a Ph.D. student of Albert Marden at the University of Minnesota-Minneapolis.[7]

Awards and recognitions

The Hubbard–Masur theorem is named after Masur and John H. Hubbard.[8] In 2009, a conference of mathematicians honored Masur's 60th birthday in France.[9]

Selected papers
  • Howard Masur (1982). "Interval exchange transformations and measured foliations". Annals of Mathematics. 115 (1): 169–200. doi:10.2307/1971341.
  • Howard Masur (1975). "On a class of geodesics in Teichmuller space". Annals of Mathematics. 102 (2): 205–221. doi:10.2307/1971031.
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References
  1. Howard Masur at the University of Chicago
  2. First Chicago Summer School in Geometry and Topology
  3. ICM Plenary and Invited Speakers since 1897
  4. List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
  5. Benson Farb (2006). Problems on Mapping Class Groups and Related Topics. American Mathematical Society. p. 140. ISBN 978-0-8218-3838-9.
  6. Athanase Papadopoulos (2007). Handbook of Teichmüller Theory. European Mathematical Society. p. 115. ISBN 978-3-03719-029-6.
  7. Mathematics Genealogy Project
  8. R. A. Wentworth, "Energy of Harmonic Maps and Gardiner’s Formula"
  9. ""Dynamics and Geometry of Teichmuller Space (honoring the 60th birthday of Howard Masur). Luminy, France. June 18-20, 2009."". Archived from the original on 2015-09-23. Retrieved 2015-06-12.
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