Johanna Mangahas Kutluhan
Brown University Mathematics Department
Office: 313 Kassar House
Phone: (401) 863-1137
Email: mangahas -at- math.brown.edu
I am a Tamarkin Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Brown. Starting July 2012, my work is also supported by an NSF Mathematical Sciences Research Postdoctoral Fellowship. My research interests grow out of hyperbolic geometry and low-dimensional topology, and center on mapping class groups and methods of geometric group theory.
Papers and notes
A Recipe for Short-Word Pseudo-Anosovs,
to appear in Amer. J. Math,
arxiv page (note: link above is more recent) and beamer presentationThe Geometry of Right-Angled Artin Subgroups of Mapping Class Groups,
with Matt Clay and Chris Leininger, to appear in Groups Geom Dyn., arxiv pageUniform Uniform Exponential Growth of the Mapping Class Group,
Geometric and Functional Analysis 19 (2010), no. 5, 1468-1480
arxiv page and beamer presentationThe Cartoon Story of Why the Mapping Class Group is Finitely Generated by Dehn Twists
Slides from a talk given at the Graduate Student Topology Conference at U. Chicago, April 2007.
The proof follows the one in Benson Farb and Dan Margalit's Primer on Mapping Class Groups.Seminar
Geometry and Topology Seminar @ Brown & Yale
Teaching
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My husband Cagatay Kutluhan is also a mathematician.