Xtreme Geometry Seminar



Brown Math Dept. Kassar 205
Roughly every other Tuesday at 4
Contact: Jeff Brock or Rich Schwartz

Fall 05 Schedule

• 9/13
  Curt McMullen, Harvard
  Dynamics on Blowups of the Projective Plane
  
  
• 10/11
  Yair Minsky, Yale
  On the Asymptotic Cone of the Mapping Class Group
  
  
• 10/18
  Jim Propp, U. Wisconsin
  The Combinatorics of Markoff Numbers
  abstract
  
  
• 11/8
  Pat Hooper, Yale
  Topology and Irrational Billiards
  abstract
  
  
• 11/29
  Alex Eskin, U Chicago
  The Quasi-isometric rigidity of SOL
  
  
• Dec 6
  Richard Wentworth, Johns Hopkins
  Weil-Petersson Geometry