Johanna Mangahas PhD Candidate Department of Mathematics University of Michigan Ann Arbor mangahas ‘at’ umich ‘dot’ edu   Curriculum Vitae Research Statement

Uniform Uniform Exponential Growth of the Mapping Class Group,
to appear in Geometric and Functional Analysis
arxiv page and beamer presentation

The Cartoon Story of Why the Mapping Class Group is Finitely Generated by Dehn Twists
Slides from a talk given at the Graduate Student Topology Conference at U. Chicago, April 2007.
The proof follows the one in Benson Farb and Dan Margalit's Primer on Mapping Class Groups.