Hyperbolic 3-manifolds Reading Seminar

About the seminar:

Our goal is to cover Chapter D (Margulis Lemma), Chapter E (Space of Hyperbolic Manifolds) & Chapter C (Mostow Rigidity) from [BP] below. All students are welcome. This seminar is organized by Abhijit Champanerkar .

References:
  1. [BP] Lectures on Hyperbolic Geometry by Benedetti and Petronio, Springer-Verlag, ISBN 3-540-55534
  2. [Bon] Low-Dimensional Geometry by Francis Bonahon, AMS, ISBN 978-0-8218-4816-6
  3. [Th] Thurston's Notes available from here .
Schedule

Please read Chapter A (Hyperbolic Space) from [BP]. It is a per-requisite since the computations in it will be used throughout the book.

Winter 2012
Time: 11:30 - 1:30, Room 4214-03 Graduate Center CUNY


Date Topic & Reference Speaker
Tuesday Jan 8th E.2 Convergence in the Geometric Topology Abhijit Champanerkar
Tuesday Jan 15th E.2 Convergence in the Geometric Topology Abhijit Champanerkar
Thursday Jan 17th E.4 Jorgensen's Theorem Abhijit Champanerkar
Tuesday Jan 22nd Chapter C Mostow Rigidity Ni Lu
Thursday Jan 24th Chapter C Mostow Rigidity Ni Lu

Summer 2012
Tuesdays 10:30 - 12:30, Room 4214-03 Graduate Center CUNY


Time Date Topic & Reference Speaker
10:30 -12:30 Tuesday Jun 5th D.1 Margulis Lemma: Lemma D.1.2 Joe Quinn
10:30 -12:30 Tuesday Jun 12th D.1 Margulis Lemma: Lemmas D.1.3, 1.4 Nishan Chatterjee
10:30 -12:30 Tuesday Jun 19th D.1: Lemma 1.3 Discussion
10:30 -12:30 Tuesday Jun 26th D.2 Local Geometry of a Hyperbolic Manifold Joe Quinn
10:30 -12:30 Friday June 29th D.3 Ends of a Hyperbolic Manifold Abhijit Champanerkar
Monday July 2nd No seminar this week
10:30 -12:30 Tuesday July 10th D.3 Ends of a Hyperbolic Manifold Abhijit Champanerkar
10:30 -12:30 Tuesday July 17th E.1 The Chabauty and Geometric Topology Joe Quinn
11:30 -1:30 Monday July 23rd E.1 The Chabauty and Geometric Topology Joe Quinn
Monday July 30th No seminar this week
11:30 -1:30 Tuesday Aug 7th E.1 The Chabauty and Geometric Topology Joe Quinn
11:30 -1:30 Thursday Aug 9th E.2 Convergence in the Geometric Topology Abhijit Champanerkar