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Spring 2006
Holomorphic Dynamics, Laminations, and Hyperbolic Geometry
May 23-27, 2006
Hyperbolic geometry Workshop
Organizers: Y. Minsky, B. Kleiner
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Supported by the National Science
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WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION:
The topics covered by the workshop will include:
- Hyperbolic 3-manifolds, their structure and deformation.
- Geometric group theory and coarse geometry.
SCHEDULE:
Audio
of talks
| Tuesday, May 23 |
| 9:00 - 10:00 |
Morning coffee |
| 10:00 - 11:00 |
Francis Bonahon, University of Southern California
Local representations of the quantum
Teichmüller space |
| 11:00 - 11:30 |
Coffee break |
| 11:30 - 12:30 |
Lee Mosher, State University of New Jersey
Axes in Outer Space (joint with M. Handel)
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| 12:30 - 2:30 |
Lunch |
| 2:30 - 3:00 |
Kenneth Bromberg, University of Utah
Drilling, grafting and the ending lamination
theorerm |
| 3:00 - 4:00 |
Tea break |
| 4:00 - 5:00 |
Juan Souto, University of Chicago
Rank of the fundamental group and geometry
of hyperbolic 3-manifolds |
| 5:00 - 6:30 |
Reception on-site |
| Wednesday, May 24 |
| 8:30 - 9:00 |
Morning coffee |
| 9:00 - 10:00 |
Brian Bowditch, University of Southampton
Ends of hyperbolic 3-manifolds
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| 10:00 - 10:15 |
Coffee break |
| 10:15 - 10:45 |
Parallel sessions:
Roland Roeder, Cornell University (Room 230)
Combinatorial aspects of Andreev's
Theorem
Zeno Huang, University of Michigan (Library)
The Interior Weil-Petersson geometry
of Teichmuller space |
| 11:00 - 12:00 |
Jeffrey F. Brock, Brown University
The geometry of hyperbolic 3-manifolds via Heegaard splittings |
| 12:00 - 2:30 |
Lunch |
| 2:30 - 3:00 |
Parallel sessions:
David Futer, Michigan State University (Room 230)
Geometry and combinatorics of
arborescent link complements
Vivien Easson, Oxford University (Library)
Length bounds for handlebody
attachment |
| 3:15 - 3:45 |
Parallel sessions:
Joseph Masters, SUNY at Buffalo (Room 230)
Closed Quasi-Fuchsian surfaces
in hyperbolic knot complements
Joseph Maher, Université du Québec à
Montréal (Library)
Random walks on the mapping class
group |
| 3:45 - 4:30 |
Tea break |
| 4:30 - 5:30 |
Mario Bonk, University of Michigan
Quasiconformal Geometry of Fractals |
| Thursday, May 25 |
| 8:30 - 9:00 |
Morning coffee |
| 9:00 - 10:00 |
Steve Kerckhoff, Stanford University
The Other Geometries |
| 10:15 - 10:45 |
Parallel sessions:
Reza Chamanara, Indiana University (Room 230)
Ideal hyperbolic polyhedra and
bending invariants of Jordan Curves
Moon Duchin, UC Davis, (Library)
Geodesic instability and Busemann
functions in Teichmuller space |
| 10:45 - 11:30 |
Coffee break |
| 11:30 - 12:30 |
Peter Storm, Stanford University
The minimal entropy conjecture for nonuniform
rank one lattices |
| 12:30 |
BBQ lunch at Fields |
| Afternoon free |
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| Friday, May 26 |
| 8:30 - 9:00 |
Morning coffee |
| 9:00 - 10:00 |
Ian Agol, University of Illinois at Chicago
Title: tba |
| 10:00 - 11:00 |
Coffee break |
| 11:00 - 12:00 |
Richard Canary, University of Michigan
Untouchable points in boundaries of deformation
spaces of Kleinian groups |
| 12:00 - 2:30 |
Lunch |
| 2:30 - 3:00 |
Parallel sessions:
Kentaro Ito, Nagoya University (Room 230)
Convergence and divergence of
Kleinian punctured-torus groups
Saul Schleimer, Rutgers, New Brunswick (Library)
The end of the curve complex
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| 3:15 - 3:45 |
Parallel sessions:
Richard Kent, University of Texas (Room 230)
The beginning of the end
Kasra Rafi, University of Connecticut (Library)
Teichmuller geodesics with prescribed
combinatorics |
| 3:45 - 4:30 |
Tea break |
| 4:30 - 5:30 |
Mark Sapir, Vanderbilt University
Asymptotic cones and actions on tree-graded
spaces |
| Saturday, May 27 |
| 8:30 - 9:00 |
Morning coffee |
| 9:00 - 10:00 |
David Gabai, Princeton University
Volumes of Hyperbolic 3-Manifolds |
| 10:00 - 10:30 |
Coffee break |
| 10:30 - 11:30 |
Peter Shalen, University of Illinois at Chicago
Classical 3-manifold topology and hyperbolic
volume |
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program.
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Contact: holodynamics@fields.utoronto.ca
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