AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

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

Associate secretaries:
Michel L Lapidus, AMS lapidus@math.ucr.edu, lapidus@mathserv.ucr.edu

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)

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