AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, April 4, 2009 00:27:23

Program | Deadlines | Registration/Housing/Etc. | Special Event or Lecture | Inquiries: meet@ams.org

Associate secretaries:
Susan J Friedlander, AMS susan@math.northwestern.edu

Friday March 27, 2009, 2:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Hyperbolic Geometry and Teichmuller Theory, I
Room 443, Altgeld Hall
Organizers:
Jason Deblois, University of Illinois at Chicago jdelbois@math.uic.edu
Richard P. Kent, IV, Brown University rpkfour@gmail.com
Christopher J. Leininger, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign clein@math.uiuc.edu
- 2:00 p.m.
  Title: The Casson invariant and the word metric on the Torelli group.
  Nathan Broaddus*, University of Chicago
  Benson Farb, University of Chicago
  Andrew Putman, MIT
  (1047-57-185)
- 2:30 p.m.
  The determinant of the Laplacian, Lyapunov exponents and volumes of strata of quadratic differentials.
  Alex Eskin*, University of Chicago
  (1047-37-293)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Controlling covers of arithmetic orbifolds.
  D B McReynolds*, University of Chicago
  (1047-51-107)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Discussion
- 4:00 p.m.
  Four-free groups and hyperbolic geometry.
  Marc Culler*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  Peter B. Shalen, University of Illinois at Chicago
  (1047-57-316)
- 4:30 p.m.
  A combinatorial property of isometric Z-actions and geodesic flow.
  Ian Biringer*, University of Chicago
  (1047-51-149)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Epstein surfaces, trees, and bubbles.
  David Dumas*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  (1047-53-182)

Saturday March 28, 2009, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Hyperbolic Geometry and Teichmuller Theory, II
Room 443, Altgeld Hall
Organizers:
Jason Deblois, University of Illinois at Chicago jdelbois@math.uic.edu
Richard P. Kent, IV, Brown University rpkfour@gmail.com
Christopher J. Leininger, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign clein@math.uiuc.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Moduli spaces of hyperbolic manifolds.
  Richard Canary*, University of Michigan
  Peter Storm, University of Pennsylvania
  (1047-57-291)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Quasi-convexity of balls in Teichmueller space.
  Anna B Lenzhen*, ANR Caen, France
  Rafi Kasra, University of Oklahoma
  (1047-51-349)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Rank of the fundamental group of hyperbolic mapping tori.
  Ian Biringer, University of Chicago
  Juan Souto*, University of Michigan
  (1047-51-105)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Modular character varieties of knots.
  Ben Klaff*, University of Illinois-Chicago
  Peter B. Shalen, University of Illinois-Chicago
  (1047-57-387)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Dynamics of Generalized Interval Exchanges.
  Vaibhav Gadre*, Caltech
  (1047-37-360)

Saturday March 28, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Hyperbolic Geometry and Teichmuller Theory, III
Room 443, Altgeld Hall
Organizers:
Jason Deblois, University of Illinois at Chicago jdelbois@math.uic.edu
Richard P. Kent, IV, Brown University rpkfour@gmail.com
Christopher J. Leininger, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign clein@math.uiuc.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  The Local Topology of Deformation Spaces of Kleinian Surface Groups.
  Aaron D Magid*, University of Michigan
  (1047-57-72)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Perturbed, Genus One Scherk Surfaces and Their Limits.
  Casey Douglas*, Rice University
  (1047-53-95)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Uniform uniform exponential growth of subgroups of the mapping class group.
  Johanna Mangahas*, University of Michigan Ann Arbor
  (1047-51-91)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Asymptotics for pseudo-Anosovs in the Teichmüller lattice.
  Joseph Maher*, Oklahoma State
  (1047-57-30)

Sunday March 29, 2009, 10:00 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
Special Session on Hyperbolic Geometry and Teichmuller Theory, IV
Room 443, Altgeld Hall
Organizers:
Jason Deblois, University of Illinois at Chicago jdelbois@math.uic.edu
Richard P. Kent, IV, Brown University rpkfour@gmail.com
Christopher J. Leininger, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign clein@math.uiuc.edu
- 10:00 a.m.
  Asymptotics of pseudo-Anosov dilatations.
  Chia-Yen Tsai*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  (1047-53-160)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Margulis numbers and trace fields.
  Peter B Shalen*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  (1047-53-294)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Rigid conics and Teichmueller discs.
  Christopher Martin Judge*, Indiana University
  S. Allen Broughton, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
  (1047-57-94)
- 11:30 a.m.
  Linear bound for the length of a conjugating element in the mapping class group.
  Jing Tao*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  (1047-51-302)
- 12:00 p.m.
  A compactification for the space of singular Euclidean metrics on a surface.
  Kasra Rafi*, University of Chicago
  Moon Duchin, University of Michigan
  Christopher Leininger, UIUC
  (1047-51-172)

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