Fifth Ahlfors-Bers Colloquium

March 24-27, 2011
Rice University
http://math.rice.edu/Conferences/ABC2011/

Celebrating the legacy of Lars Ahlfors and Lipman Bers in Analysis, Geometry, Dynamics and 
Topology.

Confirmed Plenary Speakers include:

Tadeusz Iwaniec (Syracuse)
Steve Kerckhoff (Stanford)
Bruce Kleiner (NYU)
Greg Lawler (Chicago)
Vlad Markovic (Warwick)
Martin Moeller (Frankfurt)
Eero Saksman (Helsinki)
Anna Wienhard (Princeton)
Amie Wilkinson (Northwestern)

In addition, we plan for approximately 40 short seminar talks, chosen from applications.  
An important goal of the seminar portion of the colloquium is to provide a forum to 
mathematicians in the early part of their research career, among other targeted groups.

We anticipate limited funding from the NSF.  Since we are likely to be unable to support 
every participant, we will focus our resources on students, early career mathematicians, 
researchers from underrepresented groups and from departments with lower levels of 
external support, and those without alternate sources of funding.

Please propose a seminar, register, apply for support, or make hotel reservations at 
http://math.rice.edu/Conferences/ABC2011/.  Funding decisions will be made as quickly as 
possible.

Organizing Committee:

Kari Astala (Helsinki), Mario Bonk (UCLA), William Goldman (Maryland), Ursula Hamenstadt 
(Bonn), Michael Kapovich (Davis), Howard Masur (Chicago), Yair Minsky (Yale), Alan Reid 
(Austin), Steffen Rohde (Washington), Rub\'i Rodriguez (PUC, Chile), Michael Wolf, (Rice), 
Scott Wolpert (Maryland)\\

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