4 jan 2015 - 10 jan 2015
IMPA, Rio de Janeiro
Hyperbolic Geometry and Minimal Surfaces
IMPA, Rio de Janeiro,
January 4-10, 2015
Workshop website: http://www.impa.br/opencms/en/eventos/store/evento_1501
Sponsors: Brown University, CAPES, CNPq, FAPERj, IMPA, NSF (pending).
Organizing Committee: Misha. Belolipetsky (IMPA), Martin Bridgeman (Boston College), Jeff Brock (Brown) and Harold Rosenberg (IMPA).
Speakers
Michael Anderson (Stonybrook)
Fernando Coda Marques (Princeton)
Toby Colding (MIT)
Moon Duchin (Tufts)
Jose Espinar (IMPA)
Dave Gabai (Princeton)
Ursula Hamenstadt (Bonn)
Joel Hass (Davis)
Zeno Huang (CUNY)
Stephen Kleene (Brown)
Steve Kerckhoff (Stanford)
Marc Lackenby (Oxford)
Laurent Mazet (Paris-Est)
William Meeks (Amherst)
Hossein Namazi (Austin)
Andre Neves (Imperial College)
Ivaldo Nunes (São Luís)
Frank Pacard (École Polytechnique)
Hugo Parlier (Fribourg)
Alan Reid (Austin)
Regina Rotman (Toronto)
Hyam Rubinstein (Melbourne)
Stephane Sabourau (Paris-Est)
Shmuel Weinberger (Chicago)
Hyperbolic Geometry and Minimal Surfaces
The study of hyperbolic manifolds has advanced considerably. Many problems and conjectures in the subject have recently been resolved. Incompressible surfaces in hyperbolic manifolds have played an important role in this research. Minimal surfaces have been used as well: embedded incompressible surfaces are isotopic to least area minimal surfaces. The conference will focus on various problems in the intersection of hyperbolic geometry and the minimal surface theory. We believe that a joint meeting of specialists in minimal surface theory and hyperbolic geometry will encourage collaboration to study the global geometry of minimal surfaces in hyperbolic manifolds. The topics of the conference will include minimal surfaces in hyperbolic manifolds, min-max techniques in hyperbolic geometry, systoles in expanding families of hyperbolic manifolds.
Registration and Financial Support
Please visit the conference website to register or request financial support. The organization of the conference has a limited number of fellowships for young researchers and students. Ph.D. students and young researchers are specially encouraged to apply.