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Graduate advisees Conan Gillis Aria Beaupre Kristen Pueschel, PhD 2016, On residual properties of groups and Dehn functions for mapping tori of right angled Artin groups Yash Lodha, PhD 2015, Finiteness properties and piecewise projective homeomorphisms, co-advised with Justin Moore Margarita Amchislavska, PhD 2014, The geometry of generalized lamplighter groups Postdoc mentees Nima Hoda Andrew Sale Michael Tweedale, Bristol University Will Dison, Bristol University On writing Notices of the AMS, Early career collection William Strunk, Jr and E. B. White, The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition Igor Pak, How to tell a good mathematical story Francis Su, Handouts Bjorn Poonen, Practical suggestions for mathematical writing Leonard Gillman, Writing Mathematics Well: A Manual for Authors J.P. Serre, How to write mathematics badly (YouTube), 2007 Geometric Group Theory texts Bestvina, Sageev, Vogtmann Eds., Geometric Group Theory, IAS/Park City Vol 21, 2014 Bux, Groups and Spaces, Lecture Notes, 2007 Brady, Riley, & Short, The Geometry of the Word Problem for Finitely Generated Groups, 2007 Bridson & Haefliger, Metric spaces of non-positive curvature, 1999 Clay & Margalit (Eds.), Office Hours with a Geometric Group Theorist, 2017 Dehn, Papers on Group Theory and Topology, translated by Stillwell Drutu & Kapovich, Geometric group theory, 2017 Gromov, Asymptotic Invariants, 1991 Löh, Geometric Group Theory, 2017 Lyndon & Schupp, Combinatorial group theory, 1977 Conferences and seminars BUGCAT, annually in Binghamton Upstate New York Topology Seminar, annually, location varies AMS sectional meetings The Cornell Topology Festival The Cornell Topology and Geometric Group Theory Seminar New York Group Theory seminar Stevens Institute hosts an annual conference Jon McCammond's Geometric Group Theory pages researchseminars.org on-line seminar listings Open problem collections AIM workshop problem lists Open Problems in Combinatorial Group Theory, G.Baumslag, A.G.Myasnikov, and V.Shpilrain (also here) Questions in Geometric Group Theory, Collected by Mladen Bestvina The Kourovka Notebook, E.I.Khukhro and V.D.Mazurov Rigidity properties of free-by-cyclic groups, edited by Monika Kudlinska Some group theory problems, Mark Sapir Asymptotic invariants, complexity of groups and related problems, Mark Sapir On mathematics and mathematical research Yuri Manin, Mathematics as metaphor, AMS, 2007 David Mumford, Numbers and the World: Essays on Math and Beyond Dan Rockmore, The myth and magic of generating new ideas, New Yorker, November 7, 2019 Francis Su, Mathematics for Human Flourishing, Yale University Press, 2020 Bill Thurston, On proof and progress in mathematics, 1994 Stan Ulam, Adventures of a Mathematician