AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, March 22, 2008 00:20:42

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

Saturday March 15, 2008, 9:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Northeast Hyperbolic Geometry, I
Room 1302, Warren Weaver Hall
Organizers:
Ara Basmajian, Hunter College and Graduate Center of the City University of New York abasmaji@hunter.cuny.edu
Ed Taylor, Wesleyan University ectaylor@wesleyan.edu
- 9:30 a.m.
  Kleinian groups with discrete length spectrum.
  Richard D Canary*, University of Michigan
  Christopher Leininger, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  (1036-57-151)
- 10:00 a.m.
  On Quasiconformal Stability in Hyperbolic 4-Space.
  Youngju Kim*, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York
  (1036-51-88)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Extremal Groups for the Bers Area Theorems.
  William Abikoff*, University of Connecticut at Storrs
  William J. Harvey, Kings College, London
  (1036-30-115)

Saturday March 15, 2008, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Northeast Hyperbolic Geometry, II
Room 1302, Warren Weaver Hall
Organizers:
Ara Basmajian, Hunter College and Graduate Center of the City University of New York abasmaji@hunter.cuny.edu
Ed Taylor, Wesleyan University ectaylor@wesleyan.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Asymptotics of Weil-Petersson geodesics: ending laminations, recurrence and flows.
  Jeffrey F. Brock*, Brown University
  Howard A. Masur, University of Illinois, Chicago
  Yair N. Minsky, Yale University
  (1036-37-195)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Strong convergence of Kleinian groups: the cracked eggshell.
  James W Anderson*, Southampton
  Cyril Lecuire, Toulouse
  (1036-57-173)
- 3:30 p.m.
  The minimum Dirichlet principle for measured foliations, Teichm\"uller lines of minima and the associahedron.
  Frederick P. Gardiner*, Brooklyn College CUNY and The Graduate Center of CUNY
  (1036-30-41)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Diffeomorphism groups of compact 2-dimensional hyperbolic orbifolds.
  Clifford J Earle*, Department of Mathematics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853
  (1036-30-56)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Sato-Tate like measures for geodesic laminations on hyperbolic surfaces.
  Martin J Bridgeman*, Boston College
  David Dumas, Brown University
  (1036-51-161)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Geodesic excursions into a neighborhood on a hyperbolic 2-orbifold.
  Andrew Haas*, University of Connecticut
  (1036-30-167)

Sunday March 16, 2008, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Northeast Hyperbolic Geometry, III
Room 1302, Warren Weaver Hall
Organizers:
Ara Basmajian, Hunter College and Graduate Center of the City University of New York abasmaji@hunter.cuny.edu
Ed Taylor, Wesleyan University ectaylor@wesleyan.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Commutators in Groups of Hyperbolic Motions.
  Ara Basmajian, Hunter College, CUNY
  Bernard Maskit*, Stony Brook University
  (1036-20-95)
- 3:00 p.m.
  On the geometry of quasiconformally homogeneous domains.
  Petra Bonfert-Taylor*, Wesleyan University
  Edward Taylor, Wesleyan University
  (1036-30-57)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Some geometrical properties of the Teichm\"uller space of a Riemann surface rel a closed subset.
  Sudeb Mitra*, Queens College of the City University of New York
  (1036-32-52)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Piecewise linear coordinates for spaces of finite disk patterns.
  Reza Chamanara*, CUNY/Brooklyn College
  (1036-51-176)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Coincidence of conformal densities.
  Kourosh Tavakoli*, Fordham University
  (1036-30-177)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Informative Words and Discreteness: Palindromes.
  Jane Gilman*, Rutgers-Newark
  Linda Keen, Lehman College, CUNY
  (1036-20-92)

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