The Sixth Triennial Ahlfors-Bers Colloquium will be held at Yale University on October 23-26, 2014. 

This conference is the sixth in a series of triennial colloquia devoted to the mathematical legacy of Lars Ahlfors and Lipman Bers. The core heritage is in geometric function theory, 
quasiconformal mapping, Teichmüller theory and Kleinian groups, hyperbolic manifolds, and partial differential equations including Schramm/Stochastic-Loewner-Evolution/Equations. 
Today we see the influence of Ahlfors and Bers on algebraic geometry, mathematical physics, dynamics, probability, geometric group theory, number theory and topology.

Confirmed Plenary speakers:
Stergios Antonakoudis
Mladen Bestvina
Jon Chaika
David Dumas
Peter Haissinsky
Jeremy Kahn
Sarah Koch
Nick Makarov
Kasra Rafi
Wendelin Werner

The mathematical community is warmly invited to register for the conference at our website, 

https://sites.google.com/site/ahlforsberscolloquium/

The conference will include parallel sessions, and participants are invited to contribute a talk. Please include a title and abstract with your registration.

We hope to have sufficient funding to subsidize expenses, particularly for early-career participants and participants from underserved groups. 

See you in New Haven in October!

Yair Minsky
(on behalf of the organizing committee: Kari Astala, Ara Basmajian, Mario Bonk, William Goldman, Ursula Hamenstadt, Michael Kapovich, Steve Kerckhoff, Irwin Kra, Vlad Markovic, 
Yair Minsky, Alan Reid, Rubi Rodriguez, Steffen Rohde, Anna Wienhard)

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