Dan Margalit Awarded 2021 Conant Prize

The 2021 Levi L. Conant prize is awarded to Dan Margalit for the article “The Mathematics of Joan Birman,” Notices of the AMS, 66 (2019), 341-353 . In just ten pages Margalit conveys the breadth and depth of Birman’s mathematics. Birman’s work spans several interconnected areas of algebra, low-dimensional geometry, topology and dynamics. She has made key contributions and opened up new areas of research in many directions, from braid groups to geometrization and Lorenz attractors. Her work...