2006-2007 Warwick Symposium on

Low Dimensional Geometry and Topology

Analytic aspects of low dimensional geometry

Organisers: Samuel Lelievre, Vlad Markovic & Caroline Series

This workshop will highlight some important recent developments in the geometry of surfaces and Teichmüller theory.

Group Photograph - 7 Sept 2006

The following will each give a series of expository talks:

• Francis Bonahon (University of Southern California) Quantum Teichmüller Theory
• Maryam Mirzakhani (Clay Institute/Princeton) Simple curves and the volume of moduli space
• Anton Zorich (Rennes) Flat surfaces and Teichmüller dynamics

Confirmed Speakers

• Stephane Baseilhac (Grenoble, France) Quantum Hyperbolic Geometry from the half-form quantization of the Weil-Petersson form
• Cliff Earle (Cornell, USA)
• Christopher Judge (Indiana)
• Kirill Krasnov (Nottingham) On renormalized volume of hyperbolic 3-manifolds
• Greg McShane (Toulouse, France) Cross ratio and identities for higher Thurston theory
• Athanase Papadopoulos (Strasbourg, France) The complex of domains of a surface
• Kasra Rafi (Connecticut) Closed geodesics that are contained in the thin part of moduli space
• Makoto Sakuma (Osaka, Japan) Geometry and topology of 2-bridge knots
• Jean-Marc Schlenker (Toulouse, France)
• Tan Ser Peow (Singapore) End invariants for SL(2,C) characters of a one-holed torus

• For participation please use our Online Registration Form

or contact: Warwick Mathematics Research Centre, mrc@maths.warwick.ac.uk

This workshop is a satellite conference of the ICM 2006