Laminations and Foliations
in Dynamics, Geometry and Topology
SUNY at Stony Brook
May 18 (Monday) - May 24 (Sunday) 1998
Tentative Schedule
A more compact schedule on a single page (in
Postscript) is available.
There is also a separate
schedule for parallel sessions.
The weather is getting better: Don't forget your swimming suits!
Monday:
| 8:30 |
Coffee; Registration starts at 9 am |
| 10:30
| Connes |
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The Riemann flow and the Zeros of Zeta
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| 1:30 |
Gabai
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Minicourse 1:
Laminations, Foliations and the Topology of 3-Manifolds (I)
|
| 2:45 |
Hurder |
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The Global Geometry of Riemannian Foliations
|
| 4:15 |
Hubbard |
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Foliations of domains in C^2 with pluri harmonic functions
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Tuesday:
| 9:00 |
Gabai |
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Minicourse 1:
Laminations, Foliations and the Topology of 3-Manifolds (II)
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| 10:30 |
Bedford-Smillie |
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Minicourse 2:
Dynamics and Currents (I)
|
| 1:30 |
Fenley |
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Foliations with good geometry |
| 2:45 |
Mosher |
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Laminations and solvable groups
|
| 8:00--10:00 |
Parallel Sessions |
Wednesday:
| 9:00 |
Gabai |
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Minicourse 1:
Laminations, Foliations and the Topology of 3-Manifolds (III)
|
| 10:30 |
Bedford-Smillie |
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Minicourse 2
Dynamics and currents (II)
|
| 11:45 |
Sullivan |
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Some remarks on quantum topology
|
| 12:45 |
Picnic at Sunwood |
Thursday:
| 9:00 |
Bonahon |
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Minicourse 3:
Geodesic laminations (I)
|
| 10:30 |
Bedford-Smillie |
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Minicourse 2
Dynamics and currents (III)
|
| 1:30 |
Kaimanovich |
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Brownian motion on foliations: entropy, invariant measures, mixing
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| 2:45 |
Fornaess |
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Remarks on dynamics on P^2
|
| 4:15 |
Ilyashenko |
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Covering manifolds for analytic families of leaves of
foliations by analytic curves
|
| 7:00--10:00 |
Banquet |
Friday:
| 9:00 |
Bonahon |
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Minicourse 3:
Geodesic Laminations (II)
|
| 10:30 |
Ghys |
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Minicourse 4: Riemann surface laminations: uniformization and meromorphic functions (I)
|
| 1:30 |
Kiwi |
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Rational laminations of complex polynomials
|
| 2:45 |
Camacho |
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Complex foliations near a singularity
|
| 4:15 |
Verjovsky |
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Complex Kleinian groups in higher dimension.
|
| 8:00--10:00 |
Parallel Sessions |
Saturday:
| 9:00 |
Bonahon |
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Minicourse 3:
Geodesic laminations (III)
|
| 10:30 |
Ghys |
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Minicourse 4: Riemann surface laminations: uniformization and meromorphic functions (II)
|
| 1:30 |
Gomez-Mont |
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The attractor of a Riccati equation
and the foliated geodesic flow
|
| 2:45 |
Kerckhoff |
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Seifert fibered spaces in the orbifold theorem
|
| 8:00--10:00 |
Parallel Sessions |
Sunday:
| 9:00 |
Eliashberg |
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Foliations and contact structures on 3-manifolds
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| 10:30 |
Hatcher |
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Kontsevich's conjecture on diffeomorphism groups of 3-manifolds
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| 11:45 |
Ghys |
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Minicourse 4: Riemann surface laminations: uniformization and meromorphic functions (III)
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