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Texas Geometry and Topology Conference

Metric and Conformal Geometry

Rice University

November 6-8, 2015

Texas Geometry and Topology Conference

Schedule

Directions to Keck 100 Lecture Hall

Friday, November 6

2:00-5:00pm Arrival and Registration   Herman Brown Building
Room 220
5:00-6:00pm Mario Bonk Conference Introductory Lecture: The quasiconformal geometry of fractals Keck 100
6:00-7:30pm Buffet dinner Pappas BBQ Herman Brown Building
7:30-8:30pm Bruce Kleiner PI spaces: some new examples and open problems Keck 100

Saturday, November 7

8:45am Shuttle from Holiday Inn to Rice Campus   Holiday Inn Lobby
9:00-9:30am Continental Breakfast  

Herman Brown Building
Room 438

9:30-10:30am Robert Young Quantifying nonorientability and filling multiples of embedded curves

Keck 100

10:30-11:00am Coffee Break   Herman Brown Building
Room 438
11:00-12:00pm Vladimir Markovic Harmonic maps on hyperbolic spaces Keck 100
12:00-2:00pm Break for Lunch   Rice Village
2:00-3:00pm Mario Bonk Thurston maps Keck 100
3:15-4:15pm Stergios Antonakoudis The complex geometry of Teichmüller spaces and bounded symmetric domains Keck 100
4:15-4:45pm Coffee Break   Herman Brown Building
Room 438
4:45-5:45pm Christina Sormani Sliced Filling Volumes and the Tetrahedral Compactness Theorem Keck 100
5:50-6:30pm Poster Session   Herman Brown Building
4th Floor
6:30pm Buffet Dinner
(Cost: $25 per person)
Picos Will Rice College Abe and Annie Seibel Servery

Sunday, November 8

8:45am Shuttle from Holiday Inn to Rice Campus   Holiday Inn Lobby
9:00-9:30am Continental Breakfast   Herman Brown Building
Room 438
9:30-10:30am Marianna Csornyei Kakeya problem for circular arcs Keck 100
10:30-11:00am Coffee Break   Herman Brown Building
Room 438
11:00am-12:00pm Steffen Rohde Random Metric Spaces and Conformal Geometry Keck 100

Updated November 4, 2015