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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 include:

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)



 Lodging & RESERVATION DEADLINES: Blocks of rooms
are being held for conference participants at two hotels in Newark:
The Robert Treat and the Gateway Hilton.  To obtain the special
rate,  rooms at the Gateway Hilton must be reserved by April
17th; it rooms at the Robert Treat by May 4th.  See
http://www.ahlfors-bers.net for details.

SCHEDULE

 Plenary Talks & Pre-conference Workshops:

 Three pre-conference {\bf workshops} will
run in parallel sessions all day on May 8th, beginning at 10 AM, and
during the morning of May 9th, beginning at 9:00 AM. These will meet
on the second floor of Englehard Hall and registration Thursday and
Friday morning will take place there.  The {\sl plenary talks}  will
begin on the afternoon of May 9th at 3:30 in room CLJ 070 of The
Center for Law and Justice. (Maps and directions to be available on
the conference web-site.) Registration on Friday afternoon will be
outside of the lecture hall.
 The workshops are

1.  Conformal, quasiconformal geometry and dynamics (Organizers:
Saric, Loftin, and Markovic) Speakers include:  Feltcher, Handel,
Hakobyan, Hubbard, Kahn,  Kim, Koch, Matsusaki, Mitra, Saric,
Snipes, Zahn

2.  Geometric and Algebraic structures (Organizers: Wolf, Wolpert, 
Gilman, Goldman, Loftin and Reid) Speakers include: Bernstein, 
Charlette, Dumas, Freixas, Guo, Huang,
Kapovich, Lee, Loftin, McIntyre, Mondello, Piggott, Schleimer.

3.  Hyperbolic structures and Kleinian groups (Organizers: Canary,
Minsky, Gilman and Masur). Speakers include: Adeboye, Biringer,
Duchin, Kent, Lecuire, Magid, Mangahas, Min, Namazi, Rafi, Storm,
Tao, Walker

 Conference Dinner: There will be a conference
dinner on Saturday, May 10th at Seabra's Rodizzio, one of Newark's
famous Portuguese restaurant. There will be vegetarian meals. Please
sign up on the conference web-site.


 Panel Discussion:  On Friday May 9th there will also be a panel 
discussion {\sl 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 and preceding the panel discussion. \vskip  .2in

Support: The conference will be supported by funds
from the National Science Foundation and from Rutgers-University
Newark. Since funds are limited,  support is focused 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. The deadline for support request has past and
most of our funds have been committed. However, we still welcome
requests for support from all participants and may be able to meet
these when final conference costs are tallied. Please go to our
web-site to request support: http://wwww.ahlfors-bers.net
 Further information is available at http://ahflors-bers.net and 
additional information
 will be posted there periodically.  Preregistration will help us plan 
for coffee and donuts and the
like.

 Also information can be obtained by e-mailing
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  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 (with assistance by  Greg Fein, 
Dr. Tim MacDonald \& Karan Puri). 



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