WORKSHOP ON THE GEOMETRY AND TOPOLOGY OF LOW-DIMENSIONAL MANIFOLDS.

Part-I: Geometry and Topology with emphasis on Poincare Conjecture (2nd-8th Jan. 08)

Part-II: Teichmuller Theory (9th-16th Jan. 08)

2nd to 16th January, 2008.

Dept. of Mathematics, University of Pune and Bhaskaracharya Pratishthana, Pune

Venue: Department of Mathematics, University of Pune, Pune.

Time - Table for Part-II


9th, Wed. Jan. 2008 10th, Thurs. 11th, Fri. 12th, Sat. 13th, Sun.
9.30 to 10.45 Petra B. Taylor Robert Penner 9.30 to 10.30 Robert Penner H. Mukherjee
11.15 to 12.30 Ed Taylor Perry Susskind 10.45 to 11.45 Ara Basmajian Sudev Mitra
12.00 to 1.00D. SaricK. Gangopadhyay
1.00 to 2.30 Registration(2-2.30) Lunch
2.30 to 3.45 Ravi Kulkarni Ara BasmajianEd Taylor 2.30 to 3.30 Dragomir Saric K. Marathe
4.15 to 5.30 A. P. Singh Ravi Kulkarni Petra B. Taylor 4.00-5.00P. Susskind

Dragomir Saric: The Teichmular distance between finite index subgroups of PSL_2(Z)
Krishnendu Gangopadhyay: Z-Classes of Isometries of Pseudo-Riemannian geometries of constant curvature
Sudeb Mitra: 1. Extensions of holomorphic motions
2. Quasiconformal motions
Robert Penner: TBA
Indranil Biswas: TBA
Ravi Kulkarni: 1. Introduction to Teichmuller Theory
2. Subgroups of the modular group
A. P. Singh: Spiralling Baker domains
Petra Bonfert Taylor: 1. Quasiconformal Groups
2. Quasiconformal Homogeneity
Ed Taylor: 1. Quasiconformal Homogeneity
2. Quasiconformal Groups
Ara Basmajian: Isometries of Hyperbolic space as commutators
Perry Susskind: The geometry at infinity of a hyperbolic Riemann surface of infinite type
H. Mukherjee TBA


Time - Table for Part-I

2nd Jan.2008 3rd 4th 5th 7th Jan,2008 8th Jan,2008
9.30 to 10.45 K. Marathe Yau K. Marathe G. Santhanam W. Freyn Arvinda
11.15 to 1.00 G. Santhanam G. Santhanam G. Santhanam Arvinda Varadrajan A. Mangasuli
1.00 to 2.30 Lunch
2.30 to 4.00 Yau K. MaratheArvindaHamilton Arvinda A. Mangasuli
3.45 to 5.00 K. Marathe Varadrajan Problem Session, Santhanam, Marathe Mangasuli Mangasuli