Ahlfors Bers Colloquium

May 19-22, 2005
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan

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University of Michigan

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Dick Canary
Juha Heinonen

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Richard Wentworth Johns Hopkins University

Harmonic maps in Teichmueller theory The aim of the talk will be to survey some recent results on harmonic maps and their role in Teichmueller theory. A main focus will be on surface group representations and the dynamics of the mapping class group on the space of such representations.

Topic: Weil-Petersson Geometry of Teichmuller space