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            The Triennial Ahlfors-Bers Colloquium

                 May 8-11, 2008 at Rutgers-Newark

                  WEBSITE:http://www.ahlfors-bers.net

This is the next in a series of triennial colloquia devoted to the
mathematical legacy of Lars Ahlfors and Lipman Bers. The core of
this legacy concerns geometric function theory, quasiconformal
mapping, Teichm\"uller theory and Kleinian groups, hyperbolic
manifolds, and partial differential equations including
Schram/Stochastic-Loewner-Evolution/Equations. In addition the work
of Alhfors and Bers has had an impact on algebraic geometry,
mathematical physics, dynamics, geometric group theory, number
theory and topology.


 Plenary speakers:

Alex Eskin (Chicago)
David Gabai (Princeton)
William Goldman (Maryland)
Ursula Hamenstadt (Bonn)
Christopher Leininger (Urbana)
William Minicozzi (Hopkins)
Alan Reid (U. Texas)
Steffen Rhode (U. Washington)
Richard Schwartz (Brown)
Stanislav Smirnov (Geneva)


SUPPORT The conference will be supported by funds from the National
Science Foundation and from Rutgers-University Newark. Since funds
are limited,  we will focus our support on students and early and
mid-career mathematicians and those without alternate sources of
support. We ask mathematicians with alternate sources of support to
use those. However, we welcome requests for support from all
participants and will do our best to meet all requests. Please go to
our web-site to request support: http://wwww.ahlfors-bers.net


SCHEDULE

 Plenary Talks and Pre-conference Workshops:  The plenary talks will
begin on the afternoon of May 9th.  Several pre-conference workshops
will be organized and will run in parallel sessions all day on May
8th and during the morning of May 9th. The workshops will include
the areas of conformal analysis, quasiconformal mapping and
geometric function theory, geometric structures, moduli spaces,
Teichm{\"u}eller theory,  discrete groups, Kleinian groups,
hyperbolic geometry, projective geometry, Weil-Peterson geometry,
and minimal surfaces. Details soon http://ahlfors-bers.net

 Conference Dinner: There will be a conference dinner on Saturday,
May 10th at Don Peppe's restaurant in the famous Ironbound section
of Newark.

 Panel Discussion:  On Friday May 9th there will also be a panel
discussion entitled  Lipman Bers as Mentor. This should be of
interest to current mentees and mentors alike. Panelists will
include Bers' doctoral students Professor Rubi Rodriguez, President
of the Chilean Mathematics Society and Professor Eddie Williams,
Vice-president and Chief Financial Officer at Northern Illinois
University. Other panelists include Moon Duchin and Saul Schleimer
and Marie Snipes, a student of Juha Heinonen.


 Wine and Cheese Party: Friday, May 9th immediately following talks.

Scientific Organizing Committee:  Kari Astala, (Helsinki), Mario Bonk
(Michigan), Dick Canary (Michigan), Alex Eremenko (Purdue), Jane
Gilman, chair (Rutgers-Newark), Juha Heinonen (Michigan), Howard
Masur (UIC), Yair Minsky (Yale), Mike Wolfe (Rice), Scott Wolpert
(Maryland)

Local Organizing Committee:  Mark Feighn, Jane Gilman, John Loftin,
Feng Luo, Lee Mosher,  & Chengwen Wang


Further information is available at http://ahflors-bers.net and 
additional information
 will be posted there periodically.  (Also see  
http://ab2008.newark.rutgers.edu).
 Also information can be obtained by e-mailing  
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