AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Thursday, November 2, 2006 00:39:18

Associate secretaries:
Lesley M Sibner, AMS lsibner@duke.poly.edu

Saturday October 28, 2006, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Teichmuller Theory and Hyperbolic Geometry, I
Room 202, Business School
Organizers:
Martin Bridgeman, Boston College martin.bridgeman.1@bc.edu
Jeffrey F. Brock, Brown University Jeffrey_Brock@brown.edu
Linda Keen, Lehman College, CUNY linda.keen@lehman.cuny.edu
Kasra Rafi, University of Connecticut, Storrs rafi@math.uconn.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Hyperbolicity in the arc and disk complex.
  Howard Masur*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  Saul Schleimer, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
  (1021-57-130)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Trees and convex cocompactness.
  Richard P Kent, Brown U
  Christopher J Leininger*, U. Illinois at Urbana--Champaign
  Saul Schleimer, Rutgers U, New Brunswick
  (1021-51-112)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Bounded length curves in hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
  Kenneth Bromberg*, University of Utah
  Jeffrey Brock, Brown University
  (1021-57-236)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Teichmuller-type extremal maps for the universal hyperbolic solenoid.
  Adam Epstein, University of Warwick
  Vladimir Markovic, University of Warwick
  Dragomir Saric*, Queens College CUNY
  (1021-30-190)
- 10:30 a.m.
  The Weil-Petersson Geometry in the Thick Part of Teichmuller Space.
  Zheng Huang*, University of Michigan
  (1021-53-184)

Saturday October 28, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Teichmuller Theory and Hyperbolic Geometry, II
Room 202, Business School
Organizers:
Martin Bridgeman, Boston College martin.bridgeman.1@bc.edu
Jeffrey F. Brock, Brown University Jeffrey_Brock@brown.edu
Linda Keen, Lehman College, CUNY linda.keen@lehman.cuny.edu
Kasra Rafi, University of Connecticut, Storrs rafi@math.uconn.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Teichm\"uller Geodesics that do not have a limit in $\mathcal{PMF}$.
  Anna B Lenzhen*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  (1021-51-243)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Exceptional surfaces, the J-invariant and algebraic periodicity.
  Kariane Calta*, Cornell University
  John Smillie, Cornell University
  (1021-37-235)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Divergence of geodesics in Teichmuller space and the mapping class group.
  Moon Duchin*, UC Davis
  Kasra Rafi, University of Connecticut
  (1021-51-217)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Billiards near triangles with the lattice property.
  W. Patrick Hooper*, Northwestern University
  (1021-37-199)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Siegel-Veech constants for billiards in genus two.
  Matt Bainbridge*, University of Chicago
  (1021-51-187)
- 5:30 p.m.
  A lattice point problem in Teichmuller Space
  Jayadev Athreya*, Yale University
  (1021-37-51)

Sunday October 29, 2006, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Teichmuller Theory and Hyperbolic Geometry, III
Room 202, Business School
Organizers:
Martin Bridgeman, Boston College martin.bridgeman.1@bc.edu
Jeffrey F. Brock, Brown University Jeffrey_Brock@brown.edu
Linda Keen, Lehman College, CUNY linda.keen@lehman.cuny.edu
Kasra Rafi, University of Connecticut, Storrs rafi@math.uconn.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Kleinian groups with discrete length spectrum.
  Richard D Canary*, University of Michigan
  Christopher J Leininger, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  (1021-57-232)
- 9:00 a.m.
  The skinning map.
  Richard P Kent*, Brown University
  (1021-57-224)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Volumes of hyperbolic orbifolds.
  Ilesanmi D. Adeboye*, University of Southern California
  (1021-57-139)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Bending Invariants of Jordan Curves.
  Reza Chamanara*, SUNY at Stony Brook
  (1021-51-205)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Bounds on the geometry of torus cusps.
  Richard Evans, University of Auckland
  John Holt*, Massey University
  (1021-57-156)

Sunday October 29, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Teichmuller Theory and Hyperbolic Geometry, IV
Room 202, Business School
Organizers:
Martin Bridgeman, Boston College martin.bridgeman.1@bc.edu
Jeffrey F. Brock, Brown University Jeffrey_Brock@brown.edu
Linda Keen, Lehman College, CUNY linda.keen@lehman.cuny.edu
Kasra Rafi, University of Connecticut, Storrs rafi@math.uconn.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Grafting Coordinates for Teichm\"uller space.
  David Dumas*, Brown University
  Michael Wolf, Rice University
  (1021-30-100)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Grafting lines fellow travel Teichmuller geodesics.
  Young-Eun Choi*, Penn State Altoona
  Kasra Rafi, University of Connecticut
  (1021-32-174)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Coarse geometry of mapping class groups.
  Yair N Minsky*, Yale University
  (1021-20-193)
- 4:30 p.m.
  A structure theorem for two-parabolic space.
  Jane Gilman*, Rutgers Univesity-Newark
  (1021-20-86)

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