Joan Birman is an American mathematician who studies knots and braids, and related subjects.
Dan Margalit, The Mathematics of Joan Birman, Notices of the AMS 66 3 (2019) [pdf, pdf]
Original proof that braid groups are given by mapping class group of punctured surfaces:
On braid groups, links and mapping class groups:
On braid groups, braid representations and some knot theory:
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