Yair Minsky
Yair Nathan Minsky (born in 1962) is an Israeli-American mathematician whose research concerns three-dimensional topology, differential geometry, group theory and holomorphic dynamics. He is a professor at Yale University. He is known for having proved Thurston's ending lamination conjecture along with Jeffrey Brock and Richard Canary, and for results on the geometry of the curve complex obtained in collaboration with Howard Masur.