AMS Sectional Meeting Program by AMS Special Session

Current as of Saturday, October 9, 2010 00:31:51

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2010 Fall Eastern Sectional Meeting
Syracuse, NY, October 2-3, 2010 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1062

Associate secretaries:
Steven H Weintraub, AMS steve.weintraub@lehigh.edu

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Special Session on Quasiconformal Mappings, Riemann Surfaces, and Teichmüller Spaces (in honor of Clifford J. Earle)

• Saturday October 2, 2010, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Quasiconformal Mappings, Riemann Surfaces, and Teichmüller Spaces (in honor of Clifford J. Earle), I
  Room 207, Hall of Languages
  Organizers:
  Yunping Jiang, Queens College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York
  Sudeb Mitra, Queens College, City University of New York sudeb.mitra@qc.cuny.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Extremal Properties for Teichmüller and Mori Annuli.
    Frederick Gardiner*, Brooklyn College, CUNY and The Graduate Center of CUNY
    Zhe Wang, Graduate School and University Center of CUNY
    (1062-32-36)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Plumbing.
    Albert Marden*, University of Minnesota
    (1062-30-28)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Generalized Riley Slices.
    Linda Keen*, Lehman College and Graduate Center, CUNY
    (1062-30-35)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The Non-Euclidean Euclidean Algorithm.
    Jane Gilman*, Rutgers University
    (1062-20-49)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Symmetry and moduli spaces for low genus algebraic curves.
    William Harvey*, King's College London
    Arthur Lloyd-Philipps, London, England
    (1062-32-71)
• Saturday October 2, 2010, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Quasiconformal Mappings, Riemann Surfaces, and Teichmüller Spaces (in honor of Clifford J. Earle), II
  Room 222, Carnegie Library
  Organizers:
  Yunping Jiang, Queens College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York
  Sudeb Mitra, Queens College, City University of New York sudeb.mitra@qc.cuny.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Inequalities for the Carathéodory and Poincaré metrics in open unit balls.
    Lawrence A. Harris*, University of Kentucky
    Clifford J. Earle, Cornell University
    (1062-46-81)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    On the number of holomorphic families of Riemann surfaces.
    Hiroshige Shiga*, Tokyo Institute of Technology
    (1062-30-143)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Quasiconformal homogeneity of planar domains.
    Petra Bonfert-Taylor*, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center / Wesleyan University
    Edward C Taylor, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center / Wesleyan University
    (1062-30-76)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Recent results on the strong quasiconformal homogeneity of surfaces.
    Edward Taylor*, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center/ Wesleyan UniversityTYEDCA
    Petra Bonfert-Taylor, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center/ Wesleyan University
    Gaven Martin, Massey University
    Alan Reid, University of Texas- Austin
    (1062-30-77)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Universal length bounds for non-simple closed geodesics.
    Ara Basmajian*, Graduate Center and Hunter College, CUNY
    (1062-30-16)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Geodesic-length functions and the Weil-Petersson curvature tensor (available on ArXiv).
    Scott A. Wolpert*, University of Maryland
    (1062-53-54)
• Sunday October 3, 2010, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Quasiconformal Mappings, Riemann Surfaces, and Teichmüller Spaces (in honor of Clifford J. Earle), III
  Room 222, Carnegie Library
  Organizers:
  Yunping Jiang, Queens College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York
  Sudeb Mitra, Queens College, City University of New York sudeb.mitra@qc.cuny.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    A pairing between quadratic differentials and free homotopy classes of closed curves.
    Irwin Kra*, State University of New York at Stony Brook
    (1062-30-68)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Linking hyperbolic isometries through involutions.
    Ara Basmajian, Hunter College, CUNY
    Bernard Maskit*, SUNY - Stony Brook
    (1062-22-56)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Ergodicity of Weil-Petersson flow on Moduli space.
    Howard Masur*, University of Chicago
    Keith Burns, Northwestern University
    Amie Wilkinson, Northwestern University
    (1062-32-48)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    An analytic construction of the Deligne-Mumford compactification of ${\mathcal{M}}_{g,n}$.
    John H Hubbard, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
    Sarah C Koch*, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
    (1062-32-62)
• Sunday October 3, 2010, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Quasiconformal Mappings, Riemann Surfaces, and Teichmüller Spaces (in honor of Clifford J. Earle), IV
  Room 222, Carnegie Library
  Organizers:
  Yunping Jiang, Queens College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York
  Sudeb Mitra, Queens College, City University of New York sudeb.mitra@qc.cuny.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Infinitesimal Liouville currents, cross-ratios and intersection numbers.
    Francis Bonahon, University of Southern California
    Dragomir Saric*, CUNY Graduate Center and Queens College
    (1062-32-60)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Iteration of quasiregular mappings.
    Alastair Fletcher*, University of Warwick, UK
    (1062-30-75)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Conformally natural extension is far away from being extremal.
    Jun Hu*, Brooklyn College and Graduate Center of CUNY
    Oleg Muzician, Graduate Center of CUNY
    (1062-30-163)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Barycentric (Douady-Earle) Extension via MAY iterations.
    William Abikoff*, University of Connecticut at Storrs
    Clifford J. Earle, Cornell University
    (1062-53-70)

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