Biography:Howard Masur

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Short description: American mathematician
Howard Alan Masur
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Howard Masur in Oberwolfach, 2014
CitizenshipAmerican

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

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

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