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Tara E. Brendle

Papers

• Symmetry and homology of surfaces
  (with Dan Margalit); preprint in preparation.
• Symmetries of a surface: the mapping class group
  (with Leah Childers); preprint in preparation.
• Factoring in the hyperelliptic Torelli group
  (with Dan Margalit); preprint.
• Point pushing, homology, and the hyperelliptic involution
  (with Dan Margalit); submitted.
• Cohomology of the hyperelliptic Torelli group
  (with Leah Childers and Dan Margalit); to appear in Israel Journal of Mathematics.
• Configuration spaces of rings and wickets
  (with Allen Hatcher); to appear in Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici.
• Addendum to: Commensurations of the Johnson kernel
  (with Dan Margalit); Geometry and Topology, Vol. 12 (2008), 97-101.
• Calculating the image of the second Johnson-Morita representation
  (with Joan S. Birman and Nathan Broaddus), Advanced Studies in Pure Mathematics (2008), “Groups of Diffeomorphisms” (in honor of Shigeyuki Morita).
• The Birman-Craggs-Johnson homomorphism and abelian cycles in the Torelli group
  (with Benson Farb); Vol 338, No. 1 (2007), Mathematische Annalen, 33-53.
• Braids: A Survey
  (with Joan Birman), "Handbook of Knot Theory", ed. W. Menasco and M. Thistlethwaite (2005).
• Commensurations of the Johnson kernel
  (with Dan Margalit), Geometry and Topology, Vol. 8 (2004), 1361-1384.
• Every mapping class group is generated by 6 involutions
  (with Benson Farb), Journal of Algebra, Vol. 278 (2004), 187-198.
• The Torelli group and representations of the mapping class group
  Doctoral Thesis, Columbia University, May 2002.
• On the linearity problem for mapping class groups
  (with Hessam Hamidi-Tehrani), Algebraic and Geometric Topology, Vol. 1 (2001), 445-468.