Friday March 20
Room C204/205
Morning Chair: Dragomir Saric
9:30-10:00
Registration in the foyer of the C-level, Coffee and tea
10:00-10:10
Opening Remarks (C204/205)
10:10-10:40 Linda Keen (CUNY Lehman College and Graduate Center): Discreteness criteria and the hyperbolic geometry of palindromes
10:40-10:50 Discussion 10:50-11:20 Irwin Kra (SUNY at Stony Brook): The Carath
éodory metric on abelian Teichmüller discs11:20-11:40 Discussion 11:40-12:10 Nikola Lakic (CUNY Lehman College and Graduate Center): Teichmüller density and holomorphic motions
12:10-2:00
Lunch Break
Afternoon Chair: Saeed Zakeri
2:00-2:30
2:30-2:50
Dennis Sullivan (CUNY Graduate Center and SUNY at Stony Brook):
Characters of bundles with connection
Discussion
2:50-3:20
3:20-3:40
Howard Masur (University of Chicago):
Billiards, ergodicity, Hausdorff dimension
Discussion
3:40-4:00
Coffee and Tea
4:00-4:30
4:30-4:50
Ara Basmajian (CUNY Hunter College and Graduate Center):
Half-turns and commutators acting on hyperbolic space
Discussion
4:50-5:30
Screening of Lipman Bers' Talk On Hölder continuity of
quasiconformal mappings with the anecdote about Lavrentiev and Ahlfors
Evening Events
5:30-7:00 Wine or Beer Before the Banquet at Math Lounge (Room 4214)
7:00-9:30 Banquet at the Skylight Room on the 9th floor of the CUNY Graduate Center
Saturday March 21
Room C198
Morning Chair: Zeno Huang
9:20-10:00
Late Registration in the foyer of the C-level, Coffee and Tea
10:00-10:30 Andre de Carvalho (Univerisy of Sao Paulo):
Riemann origami and convergence of pseudo-Anosov sequences
10:30-10:50 Discussion 10:50-11:20 Scott Wolpert (University of Maryland at College Park): Geodesic-length functions and Weil-Petersson geometry
11:20-11:40 Discussion 11:40-12:10 Yunping Jiang (CUNY Queens College and Graduate Center): Teichmüller structures and Gibbs measures
12:10-2:00
Lunch Break
Afternoon Chair: Sudeb Mitra
2:00-2:30 Clifford Earle (Cornell, Warwick): Completeness of Carathéodory's metric on generalized Teichmüller spaces
2:30-2:50 Discussion 2:50-3:20 Mitsuhiro Shishikura (Kyoto University):
Renormalizations in complex dynamics and the Teichmüller theory
3:20-3:40 Discussion 3:40-4:00 Coffee and Tea 4:00-4:30 William Harvey (King's College): Teichmüller moonshine