Benson Farb

Professor of Mathematics
University of Chicago

Contact Information

    Department of Mathematics
    University of Chicago
    5734 University Avenue
    Chicago, IL 60637-1514
    USA

    Office: 356 Ryerson
    E-mail: bensonfarb@gmail.com
    Phone: (773) 702-3444 (Office)                             Photo by Jessica Wynne
    Fax: (773) 702-9787



Birthday Conference: No Boundaries

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Papers

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Books

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Students

Some students, grand-students and postdocs, Spring 2019

Some former PhD students and grand-students, Fall 2017

My grad students (minus two) and me, Spring 2007

My grad students (minus one) and me, Spring 2008

My grad students (minus one) and me, Spring 2009

My grad students and me, Spring 2010

Some of my students, past and present, at a conference at OSU, May 2010

Some Chicago geometers (plus Indira), at OSU, May 2010

Some of my students (6 past, 3 present) and me at Vogtmannfest, Luminy, June 2010

My grad students and me, Spring 2011

My grad students and me, Spring 2012

Some of my students (current and former) at PCMI, Summer 2012

My grad students and me, Spring 2013

My grad students and me, Spring 2014

My grad students and me, Spring 2015

My grad students and me, Spring 2016

My grad students and me, Spring 2017

My grad students (minus 2) and me, Spring 2018

My grad students and me, Spring 2019

My grad students and me (plus Zoom-bomber Claudio, who just graduated), Spring 2020

My grad students (minus Peng Hui) and me, Spring 2021

The working group, Spring 2021

The working group (minus Trevor,Nat,Michael), Spring 2022

My grad students and me, Spring 2023

The working group (minus Trevor and Fred), Spring 2023

Some of my students (former and current) and 2 ``grandstudents'' at
the Thurston memorial conference, Summer 2014.


Thurston and some of his students, 2007


Boards

I am on the following editorial boards. Please feel free to submit a paper/book to me.

Geometriae Dedicata (managing editor 1999-2004, honorary editor 2004-)
Geometry and Topology
Journal of Topology and Analysis
Journal of Homotopy Theory and Related Structures
Chicago Lectures in Mathematics Series ( Editorial Board, 1998-2020)

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