Texas Geometry and Topology Conference
Schedule

Friday, November 6
All Day Registration  

Herman Brown Building 4th Floor
6-7:45pm Complimentary Buffet Seco's Latin Cuisine Outside Herman Brown Building (Room 438 if raining)
8-9pm Danny Calegari (Caltech) Title: Faces of the scl norm ball Herman Brown Building Room 227
9:15pm   Transportation to Crowne Plaza Hotel Keck Parking Lot next to Herman Brown Building

Saturday, November 7
8:15am   Transportation to Rice University Front of Crowne Plaza Hotel
8:30-9:30am Breakfast Breads and Coffee   Herman Brown Building Room 438
9:30-10:30am William Veech (Rice) Title: Teichmueller flows and curves and Hecke groups Herman Brown Building Room 227
11am-12pm Mikhail Lyubich (SUNY Stony Brook) Title: Two-dimensional rational dynamics and Lee-Yang zeros Herman Brown Building Room 227
12-2pm Break for Lunch   Rice Village
2-3pm Rostislav Grigorchuk (Texas A&M) Title: Ergodicity of boundary actions, Hopf decomposition and Nielsen-Schreier method Herman Brown Building Room 227
3-3:30pm Coffee Break   Herman Brown 438
3:30-4:30pm Mike Hochman (Princeton) Title: Local entropy averages and projection of fractal measures Herman Brown Building Room 227
5-6pm Karin Melnick (University of Maryland) Title: Normal forms for conformal vector fields Herman Brown Building Room 227
6:15pm   Transportation to Crowne Plaza Hotel Keck Parking Lot next to Herman Brown Building

Sunday, November 8
8:15am   Transportation to Rice University Front of Crowne Plaza Hotel
8:30-9:30am Breakfast Breads and Coffee   Herman Brown 438
9:30-10:30am Anton Gorodetski (UC Irvine)

Title: On quantitative characteristics of Cantor sets and their applications

 Herman Brown Building Room 227
11am-12pm Rafael de la Llave (UT Austin) Title: Geometric properties of the scattering map to normally hyperbolic manifolds and applications to instatbility Herman Brown Building Room 227

Updated November 3, 2009