Celebratio Mathematica

Joan S. Birman

Joan Birman

(Photo courtesy of Joan Birman.)
A 1997 photo of Joan (center) with a subset of her former graduate students and some of their students. Left to right: Rollie Trapp, Nancy Wrinkle, Elizabeth Finkelstein, Hessam Hamidi-Tehrani, Tara Brendle, Radu Popescu, Joan Birman, Effie Kalfagianni, Tat Sang Fung, Ka-Yi Ng (in front of him), Josef Przytycki and two of his Ph.D. students, Tatsuya Tsukamoto, Maxim Sokolov, John McCarthy, Ted Stanford and one of Pryzytycki's Master's students.