Howard Alan Masur is an American mathematician who works on topology, geometry, and combinatorial group theory.Howard Masur at the University of ChicagoFirst Chicago Summer School in Geometry and Topology
Biography Masur was an invited speaker at the 1994 International Congress of Mathematicians in Zürich. and is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
Along with Yair Minsky, Masur is one of the pioneers of the study of curve complex geometry. He also contributed to the understanding of the convergence of geodesic rays in Teichmüller theory.
Masur was a Ph.D. student of Albert Marden at the University of Minnesota-Minneapolis.Mathematics Genealogy Project
Awards and recognitions The Hubbard–Masur theorem is named after Masur and John H. Hubbard.R. A. Wentworth, "Energy of Harmonic Maps and Gardiner’s Formula" In 2009, a conference of mathematicians honored Masur's 60th birthday in France.
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