Michael Handel
Michael Handel is an American mathematician known for his work in Geometric group theory. He is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Lehman College of The City University of New York and a Professor of Mathematics at The Graduate Center of The City University of New York.
Michael Handel | |
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| Born | |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Alma mater | Brandeis University (B.A.) University of California, Berkeley (Ph.D.) |
| Known for | Dynamical Systems |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | City University of New York |
| Thesis | "A Resolution of Two Stratification Conjectures Concerning CS Sets" (1975) |
| Doctoral advisor | Robion Kirby |
Career
Michael Handel graduated with a B.A. in mathematics from Brandeis University in 1971.[1] He received his Ph.D. from University of California, Berkeley in 1975 under the supervision of Robion Kirby.[2] From 1975 to 1978, he was an instructor at Princeton University. He joined the faculty of Michigan State University as an Assistant Professor in 1978,[3] and was promoted to Associate Professor in 1983.[4] Handel was a visiting scholar at the Institute of Advanced Studies from 1978 to 1979, and again from 1987 to 1988.[5] In 1990, he joined the Mathematics Department at Lehman College.
Handel is best known for developing the Train track map method in Geometric group theory in collaboration with Mladen Bestvina in 1992.[6] Bestvina, Feighn and Handel later proved that the group Out(Fn) satisfies the Tits alternative, settling a long-standing open problem.[7][8]
Awards and honors
- In 1984, Handel won a Sloan Research Fellowship.[9]
- In 2014, he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[10][11]
Selected publications
- Handel, Michael. "One Dimensional Minimal Sets and the Seifert Conjecture ". Annals of Mathematics (2) 111 (1980), no. 1, 35-66. DOI:10.2307/1971216
- Feighn, Mark; Handel, Michael. "Mapping tori of free group automorphisms are coherent". Annals of Mathematics (2) 149 (1999), no. 3, 1061–1077. MR 1709311
- Bestvina, Mladen; Feighn, Mark; Handel, Michael. The Tits alternative for Out(Fn). I. Dynamics of exponentially-growing automorphisms. Annals of Mathematics (2), vol. 151 (2000), no. 2, pp. 517–623
- Bestvina, Mladen; Feighn, Mark; Handel, Michael. The Tits alternative for Out(Fn). II. A Kolchin type theorem. Annals of Mathematics (2), vol. 161 (2005), no. 1, pp. 1–59 MR 2150382
- Handel, Michael; Mosher, Lee. "The free splitting complex of a free group, I: hyperbolicity". Geometry & Topology 17 (2013), no. 3, 1581–1672. MR 3073931
References
- "Institute for Advanced Study Annual Report 1984" (PDF). Retrieved Aug 18, 2020.
- Michael Handel at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- "Michigan State Spartan History" (PDF). September 21, 1978. Retrieved Aug 18, 2020.
- "Michigan State Spartan History" (PDF). May 26, 1983. Retrieved Aug 18, 2020.
- "Michael Handel at the Institute for Advanced Study". Retrieved Aug 14, 2020.
- Mladen Bestvina, and Michael Handel, Train tracks and automorphisms of free groups. Annals of Mathematics (2), vol. 135 (1992), no. 1, pp. 1–51
- Mladen Bestvina, Mark Feighn, and Michael Handel. The Tits alternative for Out(Fn). I. Dynamics of exponentially-growing automorphisms. Archived 2011-06-06 at the Wayback Machine Annals of Mathematics (2), vol. 151 (2000), no. 2, pp. 517–623
- Mladen Bestvina, Mark Feighn, and Michael Handel. The Tits alternative for Out(Fn). II. A Kolchin type theorem. Annals of Mathematics (2), vol. 161 (2005), no. 1, pp. 1–59
- "Past Sloan Fellows". Retrieved Aug 14, 2020.
- "Fellows of the American Mathematical Society". Retrieved Aug 14, 2020.
- "Two GC Professors Named Fellows of the American Mathematical Society for 2014". Retrieved Aug 14, 2020.