AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:40

Associate secretaries:
Susan J Friedlander, AMS susan@math.northwestern.edu

Friday March 1, 2002, 1:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Mapping Class Groups and Geometric Theory of Teichmuller Spaces, I
Room 237, Dennison Building
Organizers:
Benson Farb, University of Chicago farb@math.uchicago.edu
Nikolai Ivanov, Michigan State University ivanov@math.msu.edu
Howard Masur, University of Illinois, Chicago masur@math.uic.edu
- 1:00 p.m.
  Large scale structure of the mapping class group.
  Yair N Minsky*, SUNY at Stony Brook
  Howard A Masur, U. of Illinois at Chicago
  (974-30-176)
- 1:30 p.m.
  Stable quasigeodesics in Teichmuller space.
  Lee Mosher*, Rutgers University at Newark
  (974-30-109)
- 2:00 p.m.
  "On Superinjective Simplicial Maps of Complexes of Curves and Injective Homomorphisms of Mapping Class Groups".
  Elmas Irmak*, Michigan State University
  (974-57-48)
- 2:30 p.m.
  Automorphisms of the Torelli group.
  Benson Farb*, University of Chicago
  (974-57-58)
- 3:00 p.m.
  The coarse geometry of the Weil-Petersson metric.
  Jeffrey F. Brock*, University of Chicago
  Benson Farb, University of Chicago
  (974-51-144)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Automorphisms of the Pants Complex.
  Dan Margalit*, University of Chicago
  (974-51-70)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Thompson's groups, Teichmuller theory and algebraic topology.
  William J Harvey*, King's College London
  (974-57-244)

Saturday March 2, 2002, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Mapping Class Groups and Geometric Theory of Teichmuller Spaces, II
Room 237, Dennison Building
Organizers:
Benson Farb, University of Chicago farb@math.uchicago.edu
Nikolai Ivanov, Michigan State University ivanov@math.msu.edu
Howard Masur, University of Illinois, Chicago masur@math.uic.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  On the linearity problem for mapping class groups.
  Hessam Hamidi-Tehrani*, B.C.C. of the City University of New York
  Tara E. Brendle, Columbia University
  (974-57-73)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Relations in the Torelli Group.
  Tara E. Brendle*, Columbia University
  (974-57-82)
- 9:30 a.m.
  The second homology groups of mapping class groups of orientable surfaces.
  Mustafa Korkmaz*, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
  Andras I Stipsicz, Princeton Univ. - ELTE TTK, Budapest, Hungary
  (974-57-53)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Bounded cohomology of subgroups of mapping class groups.
  Mladen Bestvina, University of Utah
  Koji Fujiwara*, Tohoku University
  (974-20-75)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Presentations for the mapping class groups of surfaces and handlebodies.
  Susumu Hirose*, Michigan State University / Saga University
  (974-57-91)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Discussion

Saturday March 2, 2002, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Mapping Class Groups and Geometric Theory of Teichmuller Spaces, III
Room 237, Dennison Building
Organizers:
Benson Farb, University of Chicago farb@math.uchicago.edu
Nikolai Ivanov, Michigan State University ivanov@math.msu.edu
Howard Masur, University of Illinois, Chicago masur@math.uic.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  The Geometry of the Weil-Petersson completion of Teichm\"{u}ller space.
  Scott A. Wolpert*, University of Maryland
  (974-30-220)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Classification of Weil-Petersson Isometries.
  Georgios D. Daskalopoulos, Brown University
  Richard A. Wentworth*, Johns Hopkins University
  (974-58-69)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Moduli Spaces of Harmonic and Minimal Mappings of Surfaces.
  Michael Wolf*, Rice University
  (974-58-122)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Divergent trajectories on noncompact spaces - rates and applications.
  Barak Weiss*, Ben-Gurion University
  (974-37-228)

Sunday March 3, 2002, 10:00 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
Special Session on Mapping Class Groups and Geometric Theory of Teichmuller Spaces, IV
Room 237, Dennison Building
Organizers:
Benson Farb, University of Chicago farb@math.uchicago.edu
Nikolai Ivanov, Michigan State University ivanov@math.msu.edu
Howard Masur, University of Illinois, Chicago masur@math.uic.edu
- 10:00 a.m.
  Homology of moduli spaces of Riemann surfaces with symplectic coefficients.
  Myint Zaw*, The Abdus Salam ICTP
  Carl Friedrich Boedigheimer, Universitat Bonn
  (974-57-190)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Stratification of the Moduli Space of Hyperelliptic Surfaces.
  Anthony Weaver*, City University of New York
  (974-51-56)
- 11:00 a.m.
  An illustration of the action of the Riemann surfaces on the free loop space of a manifold.
  Moira Chas*, SUNY at Stony Brook
  Dennis Sullivan, SUNY at Stony Brook, CUNY
  (974-57-126)
- 11:30 a.m.
  The geometry of $\mathcal{M}_g$ and the normal function associated to $C-C^-$.
  Richard M Hain*, Duke University
  (974-14-61)
- 12:00 p.m.
  Lengths of Measured Laminations on Surfaces.
  Feng Luo*, Rutgers University
  (974-57-86)
- 12:30 p.m.
  Discussion

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