Ahlfors Bers Colloquium

May 19-22, 2005
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan


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University of Michigan

Mathematics Department


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Dick Canary
Juha Heinonen

 

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Workshop Topics and Abstracts
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Conformal Analysis and Geometric Function Theory
 A characterization of subsets of finite length curves in Hilbert space and the analyst's TSP
 Best constants for weighted Moser-Trudinger inequalities on sub-Riemannian spaces
 Coarse conformal dynamics
 Conformal dimension of metric spaces
 Isometries of some Mobius and similarity invariant metrics
 On Marcinkiewicz integrals and harmonic measure
 On the quasiconformal homogeneity of hyperbolic surfaces with fixed-point full automorphisms
 Polynomial dynamics and trees
Deformation theory of hyperbolic 3-manifolds
 3-dimensional extension of Maskit slice for once-punctured tori
 A combinatorial model for the Teichmuller metric
 A group theoretic application of the Marden conjecture
 Bounded balls in convex cores
 Cusp diagrams and small hyperbolic 3-manifolds
 Geometry of complicated knots and links
 Grafting, the schwarzian derivative, and complex projective structures on surfaces
 Heegaard splittings and hyperbolic geometry
 Lines of minima in Teichmuller space
 Moduli of Conitnuity of Cannon-Thurston maps
 Shadows of mapping class groups: capturing convex co-compactness.
 The smallest covolume Kleinian group
Weil-Petersson Geometry of Teichmuller space
 An explicit Belavin-Knizhnik formula
 Chains of flats, minimal irrational laminations, and divergent geodesics in the Weil-Petersson metric
 Combinitorial aspects of Andreev's classification of Hyperbolic Polyhedra.
 Decorated Teichm\" uller space of the punctured solenoid
 Determinants of Laplacians and their holomorphic extensions
 Good metrics on the moduli space of Riemann surfaces
 Harmonic maps in Teichmueller theory
 The Canonical metric on a Riemann surface and its induced metric on the moduli
 Variation of Teichmuller geodesics
 Weil-Petersson isometries via the pants complex


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