GEOMETRY AND THE IMAGINATION

A conference in honor of Bill Thurston's 60th Birthday
June 7-11, 2007


Program


All talks will take place in A01 McDonnell Hall

Thursday - June 7, 2007
Time
Speaker
Title
9:30am-10:30am
John Milnor
Stony Brook
Wild and tame dynamics on the projective plane
10:45am-11:45am
Yasha Eliashberg
Stanford
Quasimorphisms and the quantum product in contact homology
Break for Lunch
1:45pm-2:45pm
Yair Minsky
Yale
Coarse geometry of the mapping class group
3:00pm-4:00pm
Oded Schramm
Microsoft
Conformally invariant scaling limits of discrete random systems
Break for Dinner
7:30pm-
Jeff Weeks
Independent
The Shape of Space

All talks will take place in A01 McDonnell Hall

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  Funded by the the Nation Science Foundation, Clay Mathematics Institute and Princeton University.
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