Tara E. Brendle
Department of Mathematics
Cornell University
310 Malott Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853
USA
email:
brendle@math.cornell.edu
Office: 525 Malott Hall
Phone: (607) 255-4008
Fax: (607) 255-7149
REU: Mapping Class Groups of Surfaces
Cornell University, June 6 - July 29, 2005
Papers
Commensurations of the Johnson kernel
(with Dan Margalit), Geometry and Topology, Vol. 8 (2004), 1361-1384.
Braids: A Survey
(with Joan Birman), to appear: "Handbook of Knot Theory", ed. W. Menasco and M. Thistlethwaite;
arXiv:math.GT/0409205.
Every mapping class group is generated by 6 involutions.
(with Benson Farb), Journal of Algebra, Vol. 278 (2004), 187-198.
The Torelli group and representations of the mapping class group.
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Doctoral Thesis, Columbia University, May 2002.
On the linearity problem for mapping class groups.
(with Hessam Hamidi-Tehrani), Algebraic and Geometric Topology, Vol. 1 (2001), 445-468.
Teaching: Fall 2004
Linear Algebra and Differential Equations (Math 221, Lecture 6)
Introduction to Topology (Math 453)
Past teaching
Mathematical Links
Topology and Geometric Group Theory Seminar at Cornell
Cornell Topology Festival 2005
EDGE program
(Summer 2004, Spelman College)
Miscellaneous Links
Cornell Academic Calendar
New York Road Runners
CV, Summary of Papers, etc.