BernoulliFall2005

Spaces of Negative Curvature

Bernoulli center - EPFL Lausanne - July to December 2005

The Bernoulli Center is a new research institute at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. There will be a six-month research program entitled "Spaces of Negative Curvature" which will be held at the Bernoulli Center from July to December 2005. The program will be centered around the following topics:

Aspects of the geometry and topology of hyperbolic manifolds
Systolic and other inequalities
Geometry of curve complexes and hyperbolic 3-manifolds

We invite interested people to contact one of the organisers.

Bernoulli Center
EPFL Lausanne
1015 Ecublens, Switzerland
Téléphone: +41 (0)21 693 95 72
http://bernoulli.epfl.ch

Organisers:

Christophe Bavard christophe.bavard at math.u-bordeaux.fr
Peter Buser peter.buser at epfl.ch
Ruth Kellerhals ruth.kellerhals at unifr.ch

Please write to us as soon as your plans have become more precise; we regularly update the list of participants (with expected period of their visit).

Semester plan

August 8 - 13, 2005: The XXth Rolf Nevanlinna Colloquium
August-December 2005: Research Seminar on wednesdays and fridays with two talks
August 22 - 26, 2005: Summer School (with some practical information) comprising 2 lecture series on
Systolic and other inequalities by Christopher Croke (Philadelphia) and
Aspects of the geometry and topology of hyperbolic manifolds by Alan Reid (Austin)
November-December 2005 (every second friday afternoon at the University of Bern):
Lecture series (with some practical information) on Geometry of curve complexes and hyperbolic 3-manifolds by Brian Bowditch (Southampton)
Wednesday, December 14, 2005:
Mini-Symposium on Teichmüller Theory with talks by Walter Freyn, William Harvey, Jean-Pierre Otal, Gregory McShane and a joint Dinner. For abstract of the talks, compare Abstracts.

Last update december 4, 2005