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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fein, Richard | Stevens Institute of Technology | 1974 | |
| Kupferwasser, Marcello | Columbia University | 1976 | |
| Powell, Jerome | Columbia University | 1977 | |
| Przytycki, Jozef | Columbia University | 1981 | 25 |
| McCarthy, John | Columbia University | 1983 | 2 |
| Trapp, Rolland | Columbia University | 1990 | |
| Xu, Peijun | Columbia University | 1990 | |
| Finkelstein, Elizabeth | Columbia University | 1993 | |
| Stanford, Theodore | Columbia University | 1993 | 2 |
| Chen, Zhonghe | Columbia University | 1994 | |
| Kalfagianni, Efstratia | Columbia University | 1995 | 11 |
| Fung, Tat Sang | Columbia University | 1996 | |
| Greenwood, Matthew | Columbia University | 1996 | |
| Ng, Ka-Yi | Columbia University | 1996 | |
| Hamidi-Tehrani, Hessam | Columbia University | 1997 | |
| Popescu, Clement | Columbia University | 2001 | |
| Zinno, Matthew | Columbia University | 2001 | |
| Brendle, Tara | Columbia University | 2002 | 7 |
| Wrinkle, Nancy | Columbia University | 2002 | |
| Broaddus, Nathan | Columbia University | 2003 | |
| Kawamuro, Keiko | Columbia University | 2006 | 2 |
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