Howard Masur

American mathematician

Howard Alan Masur
Howard Masur in Oberwolfach, 2014
Citizenship	American

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

Howard Masur (1982). "Interval exchange transformations and measured foliations". Annals of Mathematics. 115 (1): 169–200. doi:10.2307/1971341. JSTOR 1971341.
Howard Masur (1975). "On a class of geodesics in Teichmuller space". Annals of Mathematics. 102 (2): 205–221. doi:10.2307/1971031. JSTOR 1971031.

References

^ Howard Masur at the University of Chicago
^ First Chicago Summer School in Geometry and Topology
^ "ICM Plenary and Invited Speakers since 1897". Archived from the original on 2017-11-08. Retrieved 2015-06-12.
^ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
^ Benson Farb (2006). Problems on Mapping Class Groups and Related Topics. American Mathematical Society. p. 140. ISBN 978-0-8218-3838-9.
^ Athanase Papadopoulos (2007). Handbook of Teichmüller Theory. European Mathematical Society. p. 115. ISBN 978-3-03719-029-6.
^ Mathematics Genealogy Project
^ R. A. Wentworth, "Energy of Harmonic Maps and Gardiner’s Formula"
^ ""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.