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2004 Spring Western Section Meeting
Los Angeles, CA, April 3-4, 2004
Meeting #996

Associate secretaries:
Michel L Lapidus, AMS lapidus@math.ucr.edu, lapidus@mathserv.ucr.edu

Special Session on Complex and Hyperbolic Geometry

  • Saturday April 3, 2004, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
    Special Session on Complex and Hyperbolic Geometry, I

    Room 114, Mark Taper Hall of Humanities
    Organizers:
    Francis Bonahon, University of Southern California fbonahon@math.usc.edu
    Dragomir Saric, University of Southern California saric@math.usc.edu

    • 9:00 a.m.
      Quasiconformal homogeneity of hyperbolic manifolds.
      Petra Bonfert-Taylo, Wesleyan University
      Richard D Canary*, University of Michigan
      Gaven Martin, University of Auckland
      Edward C Taylor, Wesleyan University
      (996-57-193)
    • 9:30 a.m.
      Universal Simultaneous Bending.
      Reza Chamanara*, Indiana University
      (996-51-85)
    • 10:00 a.m.
      The topology of the space of punctured torus groups.
      Kenneth Bromberg*, University of Utah
      (996-57-153)
    • 10:30 a.m.
      The topology of the space of punctured torus groups.
      John Holt*, University of Illinois at Chicago
      Juan Souto, Universitat Bonn
      (996-57-91)
  • Saturday April 3, 2004, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
    Special Session on Complex and Hyperbolic Geometry, II

    Room 114, Mark Taper Hall of Humanities
    Organizers:
    Francis Bonahon, University of Southern California fbonahon@math.usc.edu
    Dragomir Saric, University of Southern California saric@math.usc.edu

    • 3:00 p.m.
      Deformations and Self-Maps of the Universal Hyperbolic Solenoid.
      Dragomir Saric*, University of Southern California
      (996-30-192)
    • 3:30 p.m.
      Arc Complexes.
      Robert C. Penner*, Univ.Southern Calif.
      (996-57-34)
    • 4:00 p.m.
      Schwarz's lemma and Teichm\"uller contraction for generalized Teichm\"uller spaces.
      Sudeb Mitra*, Queens College, CUNY
      (996-32-146)
    • 4:30 p.m.
      Triangulations of mapping tori over the punctured torus.
      Francois Gueritaud*, ENS Paris, USC Los Angeles
      (996-51-83)
    • 5:00 p.m.
      Counting in Kleinian groups with torsion.
      William Abikoff*, University of Connecticut at Storrs
      William J. Harvey, Kings College, London
      (996-57-186)
    • 5:30 p.m.
      Moduli spaces of Kleinian groups.
      Peter A Storm*, University of Chicago
      (996-57-65)
  • Sunday April 4, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
    Special Session on Complex and Hyperbolic Geometry, III

    Room 114, Mark Taper Hall of Humanities
    Organizers:
    Francis Bonahon, University of Southern California fbonahon@math.usc.edu
    Dragomir Saric, University of Southern California saric@math.usc.edu

    • 8:00 a.m.
      3-manifolds, essential laminations and group actions.
      Sergio R Fenley*, Florida State University
      (996-57-63)
    • 8:30 a.m.
      Analyticity of length functions of geodesic currents for convex co-compact Kleinian groups and the Weil-Peterson metric.
      Martin J Bridgeman*, Boston College
      Edward Taylor, Wesleyan University
      (996-51-121)
    • 9:00 a.m.
      Quantum hyperbolic geometry.
      Francis Bonahon, University of Southern California
      Xiaobo Liu*, University of Southern California
      (996-57-118)
    • 9:30 a.m.
      Barycentric extensions of monotone maps of the circle: a dynamical approach.
      William Abikoff, University of Connecticut
      Clifford J Earle*, Cornell University
      Sudeb Mitra, Queens College of CUNY
      (996-30-144)
    • 10:00 a.m.
      Random holomorphic iterations and degenerate subdomains.
      Linda Keen, CUNY
      Nikola Lakic*, CUNY
      (996-30-180)
    • 10:30 a.m.
      Distortion of the Exponent of Convergence in Space.
      Edward C Taylor*, Wesleyan University
      Petra Bonfert-Taylor, Wesleyan University
      Martin Bridgeman, Boston College
      (996-30-66)
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