Workshop “Higher Teichmüller-Thurston Theory”

October 15-19, 2012

Program

 

Monday, October 15, 2012

08:30 - 09:00
Registration (Room 5345) and Coffee & Croissants (Room 6245)


Meeting room(s) : 6214

09:00 - 10:00
Steven Kerckhoff
(Stanford University)
Bieberbach soul theorem
Abstract
10:00 - 10:30
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
10:30 - 11:30
Michael Wolf
(Rice University)
11:30 - 12:30
Jeffrey Danciger
(The University of Texas at Austin)
Volumes and rigidity in anti de Sitter geometry
Abstract
12:30 - 14:30
Lunch break
14:30 - 15:30

A pressure metric for the Hitchin component
Abstract
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
16:00 - 17:00
Evelyn Lamb
Harmonic maps and the indiscrete components of the representation space
Abstract

 

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

08:30 - 09:00
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) 6245


Meeting room(s) : 6214

09:00 - 10:00
Martin Bridgeman
(Boston College)
The pressure metric for convex Anosov representations
Diapos / Slides
10:00 - 10:30
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
10:30 - 11:30
Sean Lawton
(The University of Texas-Pan American)
Topology of abelian character varieties
Abstract
11:30 - 12:30
Clara Rossi Salvemini
(Université d’Avignon)
Maximal extension for globally hyperbolic conformally flat space-times
Abstract

Diapos / Slides
12:30 - 14:30
Lunch break
14:30 - 15:30
William M. Goldman
(University of Maryland)
Geometry and topology of Margulis spacetimes
Abstract
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
16:00 - 17:00
Suhyoung Choi
(KAIST)
The topological and geometrical finiteness of complete flat Lorentzian 3-manifolds with free fundamental groups
Abstract

Diapos / Slides

 

Wednesday, October 17, 2012

08:30 - 09:00
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) 6245


Meeting room(s) : 6214

09:00 - 10:00
Thierry Barbot
(Univ. d’Avignon et des Pays de Vaucluse)
Particles in spacetimes in expansion
Abstract

Diapos / Slides
10:00 - 10:30
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
10:30 - 11:30
Todd A. Drumm
(Howard University)
Affine deformations of the one-holed torus
Abstract
11:30 - 12:30
Sara Maloni
(Université Paris-Sud 11)
c-gluing construction and slices of quasifuchsian space
Abstract

Diapos / Slides

Free afternoon

 

Thursday, October 18, 2012

08:30 - 09:00
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) 6245


Meeting room(s) : 6214

09:00 - 10:00
Ara Basmajian
(CUNY, Graduate Center and Hunter College)
Universal length bounds for non-simple closed geodesics
Abstract
10:00 - 10:30
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
10:30 - 11:30
Viveka Erlandsson
(CUNY, Graduate Center)
The Margulis region and screw parabolic elements in hyperbolic 4-space
Abstract

Diapos / Slides
11:30 - 12:30
Karin Melnick
(University of Maryland)
A rigidity theorem in conformal geometry and generalizations to parabolic geometries
Abstract
12:30 - 14:30
Lunch break
14:30 - 15:30
Fanny Kassel
(CNRS & Université Lille 1)
Complete Lorentz spacetimes in dimension three
Abstract
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
16:00 - 17:00
François Guéritaud
(Université Lille 1)
Geodesic fibrations and tameness of Lorentzian manifolds
Abstract

 

Friday, October 19, 2012

08:30 - 09:00
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) 6245


Meeting room(s) : 6214

09:00 - 10:00
Tobias Hartnick
(Technion - Israel Inst. of Technology)
Structure theorems for weakly maximal representations into Sp(4, R)
Abstract
10:00 - 10:30
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
10:30 - 11:30
Ser Peow Tan
(National University of Singapore)
Polynomial automorphisms of $C^4$ preserving the quartic variety $x^2+y^2+z^2+w^2=xyzw+k$: Dynamics and identities
Abstract

Diapos / Slides

Closure of the workshop