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Cornell University, June 6 - July 29, 2005

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. pdf
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.