Workshop II: Dynamics of Groups and Rational Maps - IPAM

Workshop II: Dynamics of Groups and Rational Maps

Part of the Long Program Interactions Between Analysis and Geometry
April 8 - 12, 2013

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Monday, April 8, 2013

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:00-09:50
Anton Zorich (Institut Mathématiques de Jussieu)
Right-Angled Billiards and Volumes of the Moduli Spaces of Quadratic Differentials on a Riemann Sphere
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-11:05
William Hooper (City College of New York)
Resewing Pillow Cases
11:15-11:30
Break
11:30-12:20
Carlos Santos (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS))
Saddle-Connections in Translation Surfaces and Eskin-Kontsevich-Zorich Regularity Conjecture

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
14:30-15:20
John Smillie (Cornell University)
Ratner Theory and Strata?
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-16:50
Alex Eskin (University of Chicago)
Entropy and the SL(2,R) Action on Moduli Space
17:00-18:30
Reception (Location: IPAM Lobby)

Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00-09:50
Alex Kontorovich (Rutgers University)
Diophantine Problems in Thin Orbits
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-11:05
Kevin Pilgrim (Indiana University)
Dynamics of Pillowcase Foldings: A Survey
11:15-11:30
Break
11:30-12:20
Federico Rodriguez Hertz (Pennsylvania State University)
Global Rigidity of Higher Rank Abelian Anosov Algebraic Actions

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
14:30-15:20
Alexander Bufetov (Independent University of Moscow)
Infinite Determinantal Measures
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-16:50
Sergiy Merenkov (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Quasisymmetries of Sierpinski Carpet Julia Sets

Thursday, April 11, 2013

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00-09:50
Bill Goldman (University of Maryland)
Geometry and Dynamics of Flat Lorentzian 3-Manifolds
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-11:05
Anna Wienhard (Princeton University)
Aspects of Anosov Representations
11:15-11:30
Break
Junior Participant Presentations
11:30-11:50
Anton Lukyanenko (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Continued Fractions on the Heisenberg Group

Afternoon Session

12:00-12:20
Ilya Gekhtman (University of Chicago)
Patterson-Sullivan Theory for Subgroups of Mapping Class Groups and Orbit Growth in Teichmüller Space
12:30-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
14:30-15:20
Dragomir Saric (Queens College, CUNY)
Deformations of Hyperbolic Structures Using Shears
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-16:50
John Pardon (Stanford University)
Totally Disconnected Groups (not) Acting on Three-Manifolds

Friday, April 12, 2013

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00-09:50
Lewis Bowen (University of Texas at Austin)
Cheeger Constants and L^2 Betti Numbers
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-11:05
Boris Kalinin (Pennsylvania State University)
Linear and Isometry Cocycles over Hyperbolic Systems
11:15-11:30
Break
11:30-12:20
Chris Bishop (SUNY Stony Brook)
Quasiconformal Folding

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
Junior Participant Presentations & Problem Sessions (TBA)
14:30-17:00
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