AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

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

2006 Fall Eastern Section Meeting
Storrs, CT, October 28-29, 2006 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1021

• 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)