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Introduction to Teichmuller Theory and Kleinian Groups August 20, 2007 - August 24, 2007
Registration Deadline: August 17, 2007 almost 16 years ago
To apply for Funding you must register by: May 20, 2007 about 16 years ago
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Organizers Jeff Brock, Richard Canary, Howard Masur, Alan Reid, and Maryam Mirzakhani
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This five-day workshop will comprise six three-hour minicourses, run by experts in the field, intended to give a summary of recent results in their various areas of expertise and frame new directions for future research. The mini-courses will attempt to bring participants up-to-date on recent work in the topology and deformation theory of hyperbolic 3-manifolds, dynamics of flows on moduli spaces of translation surfaces, and the geometry of Teichmüller space and the mapping class group, and their various combinatorial models. There will be time in between these mini-courses for substantial discussion and interaction. The minicourses may be supplemented by one-hour talks. Group photo of workshop participants
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Aug 20, 2007
Monday
09:30 AM - 10:30 AM
  Introductory topics in Kleinian groups and hyperbolic 3-manifolds
Yair Minsky (Yale University)
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  Introduction to rational billiards and translation surfaces
John Smillie (University of Warwick)
02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
  Introductory topics in Kleinian groups and hyperbolic 3-manifolds
Kenneth Bromberg (University of Utah)
03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
  Introductory topics in Kleinian groups and hyperbolic 3-manifolds
Jeffrey Brock (Yale University)
Aug 21, 2007
Tuesday
09:30 AM - 10:30 AM
  Introductory topics in Kleinian groups and hyperbolic 3-manifolds
Jeffrey Brock (Yale University)
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  Introduction to rational billiards and translation surfaces
John Smillie (University of Warwick)
02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
  Introductory topics in Kleinian groups and hyperbolic 3-manifolds
Kenneth Bromberg (University of Utah)
03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
  Introductory topics in Kleinian groups and hyperbolic 3-manifolds
Yair Minsky (Yale University)
Aug 22, 2007
Wednesday
09:30 AM - 10:30 AM
  Introductory topics in Kleinian groups and hyperbolic 3-manifolds
Yair Minsky (Yale University)
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  Introduction to rational billiards and translation surfaces
John Smillie (University of Warwick)
02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
  Introductory topics in Kleinian groups and hyperbolic 3-manifolds
Kenneth Bromberg (University of Utah)
03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
  Introductory topics in Kleinian groups and hyperbolic 3-manifolds
Jeffrey Brock (Yale University)
Aug 23, 2007
Thursday
10:00 AM - 10:50 AM
  Counting Problems in Teichmüller Space
Alex Eskin (University of Chicago)
04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
  Flat structures and hyperbolic structures on surfaces
Kasra Rafi (University of Toronto)
Aug 24, 2007
Friday
10:00 AM - 10:50 AM
  Counting Problems in Teichmüller Space
Alex Eskin (University of Chicago)
04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
  Kleinian aspects of the mapping class group
Christopher Leininger (Rice University)