AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:21:41

2004 Spring Western Section Meeting
Los Angeles, CA, April 3-4, 2004
Meeting #996

• Saturday April 3, 2004, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Complex and Hyperbolic Geometry, I
  Room 114, Mark Taper Hall of Humanities
  Organizers:
  Francis Bonahon, University of Southern California fbonahon@math.usc.edu
  Dragomir Saric, University of Southern California saric@math.usc.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Quasiconformal homogeneity of hyperbolic manifolds.
    Petra Bonfert-Taylo, Wesleyan University
    Richard D Canary*, University of Michigan
    Gaven Martin, University of Auckland
    Edward C Taylor, Wesleyan University
    (996-57-193)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Universal Simultaneous Bending.
    Reza Chamanara*, Indiana University
    (996-51-85)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The topology of the space of punctured torus groups.
    Kenneth Bromberg*, University of Utah
    (996-57-153)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The topology of the space of punctured torus groups.
    John Holt*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    Juan Souto, Universitat Bonn
    (996-57-91)
• Saturday April 3, 2004, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Complex and Hyperbolic Geometry, II
  Room 114, Mark Taper Hall of Humanities
  Organizers:
  Francis Bonahon, University of Southern California fbonahon@math.usc.edu
  Dragomir Saric, University of Southern California saric@math.usc.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Deformations and Self-Maps of the Universal Hyperbolic Solenoid.
    Dragomir Saric*, University of Southern California
    (996-30-192)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Arc Complexes.
    Robert C. Penner*, Univ.Southern Calif.
    (996-57-34)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Schwarz's lemma and Teichm\"uller contraction for generalized Teichm\"uller spaces.
    Sudeb Mitra*, Queens College, CUNY
    (996-32-146)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Triangulations of mapping tori over the punctured torus.
    Francois Gueritaud*, ENS Paris, USC Los Angeles
    (996-51-83)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Counting in Kleinian groups with torsion.
    William Abikoff*, University of Connecticut at Storrs
    William J. Harvey, Kings College, London
    (996-57-186)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Moduli spaces of Kleinian groups.
    Peter A Storm*, University of Chicago
    (996-57-65)
• Sunday April 4, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Complex and Hyperbolic Geometry, III
  Room 114, Mark Taper Hall of Humanities
  Organizers:
  Francis Bonahon, University of Southern California fbonahon@math.usc.edu
  Dragomir Saric, University of Southern California saric@math.usc.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    3-manifolds, essential laminations and group actions.
    Sergio R Fenley*, Florida State University
    (996-57-63)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Analyticity of length functions of geodesic currents for convex co-compact Kleinian groups and the Weil-Peterson metric.
    Martin J Bridgeman*, Boston College
    Edward Taylor, Wesleyan University
    (996-51-121)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Quantum hyperbolic geometry.
    Francis Bonahon, University of Southern California
    Xiaobo Liu*, University of Southern California
    (996-57-118)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Barycentric extensions of monotone maps of the circle: a dynamical approach.
    William Abikoff, University of Connecticut
    Clifford J Earle*, Cornell University
    Sudeb Mitra, Queens College of CUNY
    (996-30-144)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Random holomorphic iterations and degenerate subdomains.
    Linda Keen, CUNY
    Nikola Lakic*, CUNY
    (996-30-180)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Distortion of the Exponent of Convergence in Space.
    Edward C Taylor*, Wesleyan University
    Petra Bonfert-Taylor, Wesleyan University
    Martin Bridgeman, Boston College
    (996-30-66)