2006-2007 Warwick Symposium

Low Dimensional Geometry and Topology

10am, Monday 16 July, 2007 – 5pm, Friday 20 July, 2007

Organisers: Javier Aramayona, Brian Bowditch & Caroline Series

PROGRAMME (pdf file)

Expected speakers include:

• Ken Bromberg Grafting, drilling and the ending lamination classification
• Dick Canary Introductory Bumponomics: Topology of deformation spaces of hyperbolic 3-manifolds
• Yitwah Cheung Slow divergence and Unique ergodicity
• Moon Duchin Boundary phenomena in Teichmüller space
• David Dumas Slicing, skinning, and grafting
• Sergio Fenley Asymptotics of foliations and ideal boundaries of pseudo-Anosov flows
• Koji Fujiwara Hyperbolicity, quasi-homomorphisms and stable commutator length
• François Guéritaud Delaunay triangulations of convex cores
• Ursula Hamentstädt Dynamical properties of the Teichmüller flow
• Yoshikata Kida Orbit equivalence rigidity for ergodic actions of mapping class groups
• Sadayoshi Kojima Comparison of hyperbolic volumes with other invariants
• Cyril Lecuire Thurston’s cracked eggshell
• Chris Leininger The boundary of the curve complex
• Yair Minsky Coarse geometry of mapping class groups
• Hossein Namazi Splittings, hyperbolic geometry and models
• Walter Neumann Eigenvalue equivalence of hyperbolic manifolds
• Ken’ichi Ohshika Divergence, exotic convergence and self-bumping in quasi-Fuchsian spaces
• Kasra Rafi Rigidity of the curve complex
• Mary Rees Estimates on pleated surfaces
• Saul Schleimer Covers and the curve complex
• Ken Shackleton On the coarse geometry of the Weil-Petersson metric
• Teruhiko Soma Geometric limits of quasi-Fuchsian groups
• Juan Souto Rank of the fundamental group and geometry of hyperbolic 3-manifolds
• Scott Wolpert The CAT(0) geometry of Teichmüller space

ABSTRACTS for these talks (pdf file)

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