Professor Tara Brendle

Professor of Mathematics (Mathematics)
Elected Academic Staff members on Court (Academic Services)

telephone: 01413306361
email: Tara.Brendle@glasgow.ac.uk

Room 429, Mathematics, Mathematics and Statistics Building, Glasgow G12 8SU

Research interests

My main research interests involve the interplay between algebra and topology. The automorphism group of a surface is a fundamental object in geometric and combinatorial group theory, low-dimensional topology, and algebraic geometry, for example. My research focuses on how these mapping class groups of surfaces are related to other important classes of groups such as braid groups and Coxeter groups, arithmetic groups, and automorphism groups of free groups, as well as the role played by these groups in determining the structure of 3- and 4-manifolds via constructions such as Heegaard splittings and Lefschetz fibrations.

Research groups

Publications

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2023

Brendle, T. , Broaddus, N. and Putman, A. (2023) The high-dimensional cohomology of the moduli space of curves with level structures II: punctures and boundary. Israel Journal of Mathematics, (doi: 10.1007/s11856-023-2566-9) (Early Online Publication)

Brendle, T. , Broaddus, N. and Putman, A. (2023) The mapping class group of connect sums of S2 x S1. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, 376(4), pp. 2557-2572. (doi: 10.1090/tran/8758)

2019

Brendle, T. E. and Margalit, D. (2019) Normal subgroups of mapping class groups and the metaconjecture of Ivanov. Journal of the American Mathematical Society, 32, pp. 1009-1070. (doi: 10.1090/jams/927)

2018

Brendle, T. and Margalit, D. (2018) Erratum to: Commensurations of the Johnson kernel. Geometry and Topology, (doi: 10.2140/gt.2004.8.1361)

Brendle, T. E. and Margalit, D. (2018) The level four braid group. Journal für die Reine und Angewandte Mathematik (Crelles Journal), 735, pp. 249-264. (doi: 10.1515/crelle-2015-0032)

2017

Brendle, T. , Childers, L. and Margalit, D. (2017) Mapping class groups. In: Clay, Matt and Margalit, Dan (eds.) Office Hours With a Geometric Group Theorist. Princeton University Press, pp. 362-387. ISBN 9780691158662

2015

Brendle, T. E. and Margalit, D. (2015) Factoring in the hyperelliptic Torelli group. Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 159(2), pp. 207-217. (doi: 10.1017/S0305004115000286)

Strachan, I. , Brendle, T. and Wilson, A. (2015) Online assessment and feedback: how to square the circle. 8th Annual University of Glasgow Learning and Teaching Conference, Glasgow, UK, 14 Apr 2015.

Brendle, T. , Margalit, D. and Putman, A. (2015) Generators for the hyperelliptic Torelli group and the kernel of the Burau representation at t = -1. Inventiones Mathematicae, 200(1), pp. 263-310. (doi: 10.1007/s00222-014-0537-9)

2013

Brendle, T.E. and Margalit, D. (2013) Point pushing, homology, and the hyperelliptic involution. Michigan Mathematical Journal, 62(3), pp. 451-473. (doi: 10.1307/mmj/1378757883)

Brendle, T. , Childers, L. and Margalit, D. (2013) Cohomology of the hyperelliptic Torelli group. Israel Journal of Mathematics, 195(2), pp. 613-630. (doi: 10.1007/s11856-012-0075-3)

Brendle, T.E. and Hatcher, A. (2013) Configuration spaces of rings and wickets. Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici, 88(1), pp. 131-162. (doi: 10.4171/CMH/280)

2008

Birman, J., Brendle, T. and Broaddus, N. (2008) Calculating the image of the second Johnson–Morita representation. In: Groups of Diffeomorphisms (Birthday Conference in Honor of Professor Shigeyuki Morita), University of Tokyo, 2006,

Brendle, T. and Margalit, D. (2008) Addendum to: commensurations of the Johnson kernel. Geometry and Topology, 12, pp. 97-101. (doi: 10.2140/gt.2008.12.97)

2007

Brendle, T.E. and Farb, B. (2007) The Birman–Craggs–Johnson homomorphism and abelian cycles in the Torelli group. Mathematische Annalen, 338(1), pp. 33-53. (doi: 10.1007/s00208-006-0066-y)

2005

Birman, J. and Brendle, T. (2005) Braids: a survey. In: Menasco, W. and Thistlethwaite, M. (eds.) Handbook of Knot Theory. Elsevier, pp. 19-103. ISBN 9780444514523

2004

Brendle, T.E. and Farb, B. (2004) Every mapping class group is generated by 6 involutions. Journal of Algebra, 278(1), pp. 187-198. (doi: 10.1016/j.jalgebra.2004.02.019)

Brendle, T.E. and Margalit, D. (2004) Commensurations of the Johnson kernel. Geometry and Topology, 8, pp. 1361-1384. (doi: 10.2140/gt.2004.8.1361)

2001

Brendle, T.E. and Hamidi-Tehrani, H. (2001) On the linearity problem for mapping class groups. Algebraic and Geometric Topology, 1, pp. 445-468.

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