Speaker: Robert Brooks.
Title: Riemann Surfaces and 3-Regular Graphs.
Affiliation: Technion Institute.
Date: Friday, October 26, 2001.
Place and Time: Room 101 - Love Building, 3:35-4:35 pm.
Refreshments: Room 204 - Love Building, 3:00 pm.

Abstract. (joint work with Eran Makover) What does a typical surface of constant curvature look like geometrically? We study this question by modeling it on the geometric behavior of a randomly chosen 3-regular graph. The resulting picture is an interesting mix of techniques from Riemannian geometry, complex analysis, and probability theory, and contains some surprising answers.