Tara E. Brendle

Application Materials:

• Curriculum Vitae [pdf], [ps]
• Summary of Papers [pdf], [ps]
• Research Statement [pdf], [ps]
• Teaching Statement [pdf], [ps]

Papers (also available on previous page)

• The Torelli group and representations of the mapping class group. pdf
  Doctoral Thesis, Columbia University, May 2002.
  
• On the linearity problem for mapping class groups.
  (with Hessam Hamidi-Tehrani), Algebraic and Geometric Topology, Vol. 1 (2001), 445-468.
  
• Every mapping class group is generated by 6 involutions.
  (with Benson Farb), Journal of Algebra, Vol. 278 (2004), 187-198.
  
• Commensurations of the Johnson kernel
  (with Dan Margalit), Geometry and Topology, Vol. 8 (2004), 1361-1384.
• Braids: A Survey
  (with Joan Birman), to appear: "Handbook of Knot Theory", ed. W. Menasco and M. Thistlethwaite;
  arXiv:math.GT/0409205.
  
• ROUGH DRAFT: The Birman-Craggs-Johnson homomorphism and abelian cycles in the Torelli group (with Benson Farb) [pdf], [ps]