Jason Behrstock

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.

Life and career Behrstock was born in California and was educated in California's public school system. 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 2010, Behrstock was awarded the Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship. In 2012, Behrstock became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society. Behrstock became a Simons Fellow in 2014.

Selected publications 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.