ESF Research Conferences

ESF Mathematics Conference in Partnership with EMS and ERCOM

Teichmüller Theory and its Interactions in Mathematics and Physics

28 June - 3 July 2010

Preliminary Programme

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This ESF-EMS-ERCOM Conference aims to highlight some of the most important advances in Teichmüller theory. This theory will be considered both from the geometric point of view (Thurston's theory and its ramifications) and from the analytic point of view (the Ahlfors-Bers theory and its ramifications). The relation with physics will also be emphasized.

Conference topics will include:

Weil-Petersson geometry and other metric structures;
mapping class groups and their representation theory;
rigidity theory;
infinite-dimensional Teichmüller spaces;
relations with dynamical systems;
relations with number theory and probability theory;
invariants of 3- and 4-manifolds;
moduli spaces of flat connections;
cluster algebras and quantization.

In addition to specialized talks, there will be several survey talks given by leading experts in the field. Young researchers are particularly encouraged to participate, and graduate students in the field are also welcome.

Invited Speakers will include:

Norbert A'Campo - Mathematisches Institut Rheinsprung, Universität Basel, CH
Jørgen E. Andersen - Aarhus Universitet, Institut for Matematiske Fag, DK
TQFT and quantization of moduli spaces of flat connections
Benson Farb - University of Chicago, US
Vladimir Fock - Université de Strasbourg, FR
Geometric quantization of Teichmueller spaces
Sergey Fomin - Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan, US
Bill Goldman - University of Maryland, US
Alexander Goncharov - Brown University, Providence, US
Ursula Hamenstaedt - Mathematisches Institut, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, DE
Dieter Kotschick - Mathematisches Institut, Universität München, DE
K. Krasnov - School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Nottingham, UK
François Labourie - Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, FR
Vladimir Markovic - University of Warwick, UK
Curtis McMullen - Harvard University, US
Gabriele Mondello - Dipartimento di Matematica, Universita di Roma "La Sapienza", IT
Riemann surfaces with conical points
Jean-Pierre Otal - Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse, FR
Jean-Marc Schlenker - Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse, FR
Nathalie Wahl - University of Copenhagen, DK
Anna Wienhard - Princeton University, US
Scott Wolpert - University of Maryland, US
Andrei Zelevinsky - Department of Mathematics, Northeastern University, US