Geometry of Riemann Surfaces

A Conference to celebrate the 65th birthday of Bill Harvey
30 June - 4 July 2007, Anogia, Crete


Provisional Program


Sat 30 June, afternoon
Arrival at Anogia, Registration
Sun 1 July, morning
Registration, Talks
8:00 - 9:00
Breakfast
9:00 - 9:15
Registration
9:15 - 9:30
Opening session
9:30 - 10:00
Gardiner: Circle expanding maps and Thompson's group
10:10 - 10:40
Gonzalez Diez: Uniformization of arithmetic complex surfaces 

Coffee Break
11:20 - 11:50
Keen: Palindromes in Schottky groups
12:00 - 12:30
Gonzalez Aguilera: On Schottky problem for singular locus on A5
13:00
Lunch
Sun 1 July, afternoon
Talks
17:00 - 17:30
Basmajan: Hyperbolic surfaces and their length spectra
17:40 - 18:10
Buser: Simple geodesics on Riemann surfaces

Coffee Break
18:40 - 19:10
Parker: Complex hyperbolic quasi-Fuchsian space, I
19:20 - 19:50
Platis: Complex hyperbolic quasi-Fuchsian space, II
Mon 2 July, morning
Talks
8:00 - 9:00
Breakfast
9:00 - 9:30
Bullett: Deformations of the modular group as a quasi-Fuchsian correspondence
9:40 - 10:10
Maskit: An application of Kleinian groups to 4-manifolds

Coffee Break
10:40 - 11:10
Silhol: Actions of fractional Dehn twists on moduli spaces
11:20 - 11:50
Lloyd Philipps: M06 and the Segre cubic
Mon 2 July, afternoon
Excursion
12:00 - 22:30
Myloi, lunch at Chromonastiri, afternoon and evening in Rethymno.
Tue 3 July, morning
Talks
8:00 - 9:00
Breakfast
9:00 - 9:30
Abikoff: Maximal area Kleinian groups
9:40 - 10:10
Izquierdo: Cyclic p-gonal Riemann surfaces with several p-morphisms
10:20 - 10:50
Suskind: The geometry at infinity of a Riemann surface of infinite type

Coffee Break
11:20 - 11:50
Bridson: Nonpositive curvature, dimension-rigidity and actions of mapping class groups
12:00 - 12:30
Teofilatto: Geometry of optimal trajectories
13:00
Lunch
Tue 3 July, afternoon Talks
17:00 - 17:30
Costa: On Hurwitz spaces of dimension 1
17:40 - 18:10
Eberlein: Riemannian 2-step nilmanifolds with prescribed Ricci tensor

Coffee Break
18:40 - 19:10
McShane: Multiplicities in the simple length spectrum
19:20 - 19:50
Mitra: Quasiconformal motion of the Riemann sphere
Tue 3 July, evening
Dinner
Wed 4 July, morning Talks, closing session
8:00 - 9:00
Breakfast
9:00 - 9:30
Sergiescu: On Thompson groups
9:40 - 10:10
Rojas: Prym-Tyurin varieties and the isogenous decomposition of a Jacobian with group action
10:20 - 10:50
Parlier: The geometry of the pants complex

Coffee Break
11:20 - 11:50
Semmler: Polygons, Riemann surfaces and Helling matrices
12:00 - 12:30
Earle: Schottky-Montel theorems for holomorphic functions on infinite dimensional Banach manifolds
13:00
Lunch
Wed 4 July, afternoon
Departure