Dan Margalit (mathematician)


Dan Margalit is an American mathematician at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His research fields include geometric group theory and low-dimensional topology, with a particular focus on mapping class groups of surfaces.

Education and career

Margalit earned his bachelor's degree from Brown University. He earned his doctorate from the University of Chicago in 2003, advised by Benson Farb. His thesis was titled Algebra versus Topology in Mapping Class Groups. Margalit was a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Utah from 2003 to 2008. He was a faculty member at Tufts University from 2008 to 2010, before moving to the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Margalit is known for his work in exposition of geometric group theory, particularly his book with Benson Farb, A Primer on Mapping Class Groups.

Awards and honors

Margalit became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society in 2019; he was recognized "for contributions to low-dimensional topology and geometric group theory, exposition, and mentoring." Margalit was a 2009 Sloan Research Fellow.

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