This Week in Mathematics
Department of Mathematics
The Florida State University
This Week in Mathematics
2 - 6 March 1998
Graduate Seminar, 2:30 p.m., 204B Love Building
Chris Holt, Florida State University
Problem with Levitating Frogs
Knot Theory Seminar, 3:35 p.m., 104 Love Building
Jose Carlos Gomez Larranaga, CIMAT, Guanajuato, Mexico & FSU
(Real) Analysis Seminar, 2:30 p.m., 102 Love Building
Working through Carlos Kenig's lecture notes on oscillatory integrals and nonlinear pde.
Complex/Symbolic Coffee, 3:15 p.m., 105 Love Building
Complex/Symbolic, 3:35 p.m., 102 Love Building
[CCG workshop-no seminar]
Algebra Seminar, 2:00 p.m., 104 Love Building
Warren Nichols, Florida State University
Algorithms in Invariant Theory
Topology Tea Time, 3:00 p.m., 204 Love Building
Topology Seminar, 3:35 p.m., 104 Love Building
Colloquium Coffee, 3:00 p.m., 204 Love Building
Colloquium, 3:30 p.m., 101 Love Building
Bernie Maskit, SUNY, Stony Brook
On Algebraic Hyperbolic Manifolds
Two of the classical views of a closed Riemann surface is as a hyperbolic manifold, and as a discrete subgroup of PSL(2,R). The variation in the conformal structure can also be thought of as a variation of the hyperbolic structure (i.e., Fenchel-Nielsen coordinates), or as a variation in the representation of the fundamental group (i.e., the space of discrete faithful representations of the fundamental group into PSL(2,R)). We show that the connection between these two representations can be made explicit, and that, in appropriate coordinates, this connection is algebraic. This leads to a natural definition of an algebraic hyperbolic surface or orbifold. There are also some generalizations to three dimensions.
Scientific Computing Seminar, 4:30 p.m., 200 Love Building
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