Speaker: Kasra Rafi
Title: The Geometry of Teichmuller Space: a Combinatorial Viewpoint
Affiliation: University of Chicago
Date: Friday, February 8, 2008
Place and Time: Room 101, Love Building, 3:35-4:30 pm
Refreshments: Room 204, Love Building, 3:00 pm

Abstract. We review some recent advances in Teichmuller theory, namely, some results on the behavior of Teichmuller geodesics and other geodesic-like paths in Teichmuller space, as well as the large-scale geometry of Teichmuller space. Our approach centers on the relationship between Teichmuller space and its associated curve complex, the space that encodes its important combinatorial data.