Joan Sylvia Lyttle Birman
Ph.D. New York University 1968
Dissertation:
Braid Groups and Their Relationship to Mapping Class Groups
Advisor: Wilhelm Magnus
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| Name | School | Year | Descendants |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tara Brendle | Columbia University | 2002 | |
| Nathan Broaddus | Columbia University | 2003 | |
| Zhonghe Chen | Columbia University | 1994 | |
| Richard Fein | Stevens Institute of Technology | 1974 | |
| Elizabeth Finkelstein | Columbia University | 1993 | |
| Tat Sang Fung | Columbia University | 1996 | |
| Matthew Greenwood | Columbia University | 1996 | |
| Hessam Hamidi-Tehrani | Columbia University | 1997 | |
| Efstratia Kalfagianni | Columbia University | 1995 | |
| Keiko Kawamuro | Columbia University | 2006 | |
| Marcello Kupferwasser | Columbia University | 1976 | |
| John McCarthy | Columbia University | 1983 | 2 |
| Ka-Yi Ng | Columbia University | 1996 | |
| Clement Popescu | Columbia University | 2001 | |
| Jerome Powell | Columbia University | 1977 | |
| Jozef Przytycki | Columbia University | 1981 | 10 |
| Theodore Stanford | Columbia University | 1993 | 3 |
| Rolland Trapp | Columbia University | 1990 | |
| Nancy Wrinkle | Columbia University | 2002 | |
| Peijun Xu | Columbia University | 1990 | |
| Matthew Zinno | Columbia University | 2001 |
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