Yair N. Minsky

Yair Minksy is the Einar Hille Professor of Mathematics at Yale University where he has also been the Chair of the Mathematics Department 2010–2014 and 2018–2021.

His main fields of study are 3-dimensional topology, hyperbolic geometry, Riemann surface theory (Teichmüller theory) and mapping class groups, as well as holomorphic dynamics and combinatorial group theory.

Minsky's research has been supported by numerous grants from the National Science Foundation and the United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation. He has received several Alfred P. Sloan research fellowships and IBM graduate fellowships. Minsky has published more than 40 articles in scholarly journals and is a member of the editorial board of the Duke Mathematical Journal and AMS Journal of Conformal Geometry and Dynamics.

Minsky earned an M.S. in computer science from Columbia University and an undergraduate degree and Ph.D. in mathematics from Princeton University.