Laminations and Foliations 
in Dynamics, Geometry and Topology

SUNY at Stony Brook

May 18-24,1998 


Monday - May 18


10:30 Alain Connes, IHÉS
The Riemann flow and the Zeros of Zeta

1:30 David Gabai, California Institute of Technology
Minicourse 1:
Laminations, Foliations and the Topology of 3-Manifolds (I)

2:45 Steven Hurder, University of Illinois at Chicago
The Global Geometry of Riemannian Foliations
Note: Only first 18 minutes of talk.

4:15 John Hubbard, Cornell University
Foliations of domains in C2 with pluri harmonic functions



Tuesday - May 19
9:00 David Gabai, California Institute of Technology
Minicourse 1:
Laminations, Foliations and the Topology of 3-Manifolds (II)

10:30 John Smillie, Cornell University
Minicourse 2:
Dynamics and Currents (I)

1:30 Sérgio Fenley, Florida State University
Foliations with good geometry

2:45 Lee Mosher, Rutgers University
Laminations and solvable groups



Wednesday - May 20
9:00 David Gabai, California Institute of Technology
Minicourse 1:
Laminations, Foliations and the Topology of 3-Manifolds (III)

10:30 Eric Bedford, Indiana University
Minicourse 2:
Dynamics and currents (II)

11:45 Dennis Sullivan, SUNY at Stony Brook
Some remarks on quantum topology



Thursday - May 21
9:00 Francis Bonahon, University of Southern California
Minicourse 3:
Geodesic laminations (I)

10:30 John Smillie, Cornell University
Minicourse 2:
Dynamics and currents (III)

1:30 Vadim Kaimanovich, University of Manchester
Brownian motion on foliations: entropy, invariant measures, mixing

2:45 John Erik Fornæss, University of Michigan
Remarks on dynamics on P2

4:15 Yulij Ilyashenko, Cornell University/Moscow State University
Covering manifolds for analytic families of leaves of foliations by analytic curves




Friday - May 22
9:00 Francis Bonahon, University of Southern California
Minicourse 3:
Geodesic Laminations (II)

10:30 Étienne Ghys, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon
Minicourse 4:
Riemann surface laminations: uniformization and meromorphic functions (I)

1:30 Jan Kiwi, Pontificia Universidad Católica
Rational laminations of complex polynomials

2:45 César Camacho, Instituto de Matemática Pura e Aplicada
Complex foliations near a singularity
Note: There are some audio issues with this video.

4:15 Alberto Verjovsky, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Complex Kleinian groups in higher dimension
Note: There are some audio issues with this video.



Saturday - May 23
9:00 Francis Bonahon, University of Southern California
Minicourse 3:
Geodesic laminations (III)

10:30 Étienne Ghys, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon
Minicourse 4:
Riemann surface laminations: uniformization and meromorphic functions (II)
Note: There is no audio for the first 7 minutes.

1:30 Gomez-Mont
The attractor of a Riccati equation and the foliated geodesic flow

2:45 Steven Kerckhoff, Stanford University
Seifert fibered spaces in the orbifold theorem
Note: There is no audio for the first 14 minutes.



Sunday - May 24
9:00 Yakov Eliashberg, Stanford University
Foliations and contact structures on 3-manifolds

10:30 Allen Hatcher, Cornell University
Kontsevich's conjecture on diffeomorphism groups of 3-manifolds

11:45 Étienne Ghys, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon
Minicourse 4:
Riemann surface laminations: uniformization and meromorphic functions (III)