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Topics in Teichmuller Theory and Kleinian Groups
Nov 12, 2007 to Nov 16, 2007

Organizer(s)

Jeff Brock, Ken Bromberg, Richard Canary, Howard Masur, Alan Reid, Maryam Mirzakhani, and John Smillie
To apply for funding, you must register by Fri, Sep 28 2007.
This five-day conference, which will serve as the main research conference for the MSRI program in Teichmüller theory and Kleinian groups, will attempt to take stock of the work and results of participants of the program, as well as to incorporate outside perspectives. The conference, which will include roughly 25 main speakers from a broad variety of focus areas, will make the case for a continued modernization of the connections between these two fields which have undergone such dramatic changes in recent years. Ample time will be provided for discussion in between talks, and communicating across these two fields will be emphasized.



A block of rooms has been reserved at the Hotel Durant. Please mention the workshop name and reference the following code when making reservations via phone, fax or e-mail: X00000. The cut-off date for reservations is October 12, 2007.

A block of rooms has been reserved at the Rose Garden Inn. Reservations may be made by calling 1-800-992-9005 OR directly on their website. Click on Corporate at the bottom of the screen and when prompted enter code MATH (this code is not case sensitive). By using this code a new calendar will appear and will show MSRI rate on all room types available. The following Group Code should be entered in the "Comment" field when booking through our Website. Group Code = CGMS53. Please note: The Original Queen room type does not have an in-room T1 connection, but we do have WIFI available in our main lobby area. The cut-off date for reservations is October 19, 2007.

Funding

To apply for funding, you must register by Fri, Sep 28 2007. Click to Register
Students, recent Ph.D.'s, women, and members of underrepresented minorities are particularly encouraged to apply. Funding awards are made typically 6 weeks before the workshop begins. Requests received after the funding deadline are considered only if additional funds become available.
Schedule
Monday, November 12, 2007
9:15AM - 10:30AM Juan Souto Rank of the Fundamental Group and Heegaard Genus of Thick Mon-Haken Hyperbolic 3-manifolds [Video available]
11:00AM - 12:00PM Corinna Ulcigrai Ergodic Properties of Surface Flows [Video available]
2:00PM - 3:00PM François Labourie Cross Ratios and Identities for Higher Teichmüller-Thurston Theory [Video available]
3:30PM - 4:30PM Hossein Namazi Hyperbolic Geometry and Heegaard Splittings [Video available]
4:45PM - 5:45PM Mahan Mitra Cannon-Thurston Maps [Video available]
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
9:30AM - 10:30AM Danny Calegari Positivity of the Universal Pairing in 3 Dimensions, and the Topological Cauchy-Schwarz Inequality [Video available]
11:00AM - 12:00PM Teruhiko Soma Geometry and Topology of Geometric Limits [Video available]
1:30PM - 2:30PM Ursula Hamenstaedt Counting Periodic Teichmüller Geodesics in Odd Strata [Video available]
3:00PM - 4:00PM Kasra Rafi Grafting Rays and Teichmüller Geodesics [Video available]
4:00PM - 5:00PM Moon Duchin The Length Spectrum of a Flat Metric [Video available]
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
9:00AM - 10:00AM Pascal Hubert Some Remarks on Translation Surfaces in Genus 3 [Video available]
10:30AM - 11:30AM Yitwah Cheung Slow Divergence and Unique Ergodicity [Video available]
11:45AM - 12:45PM Vladimir Markovic The action of mapping class group on the Teichmüller space of the Punctured Hyperbolic Solenoid [Video available]
Thursday, November 15, 2007
9:30AM - 10:30AM David Gabai Volumes of hyperbolic 3-manifolds [Video available]
11:00AM - 12:00PM Sergio Fenley Asymptotics of foliations and ideal boundaries of pseudo-Anosov flows [Video available]
2:00PM - 3:00PM Ian Agol Pants in 3-manifolds [Video available]
3:30PM - 4:30PM Christopher Leininger Hyperbolic planes in the curve complex [Video available]
4:30PM - 5:30PM Matthew Bainbridge Billiards in genus two: volumes and counting problems [Video available]
Friday, November 16, 2007
9:30AM - 10:30AM Patrick Hooper Dynamics on an infinite surface with the lattice property [Video available]
11:00AM - 12:00PM Kariane Calta Algebraic periodicity and translation surfaces [Video available]
2:00PM - 3:00PM David Dumas The Zariski closure of a Bers slice [Video available]
3:30PM - 4:30PM Maryam Mirzakhani Geometry of the Thin Part of the Moduli Space: Teichmüller Geodesics and Random Walks [Video available]
Parent Program(s):
Teichmuller Theory and Kleinian Groups


Questions about this workshop should be sent either by email to
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Topics in Teichmuller Theory and Kleinian Groups
Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
17 Gauss Way, Berkeley, CA
94720-5070.
USA

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