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Geometry-Topology Seminar

Thursday, October 25, 2012 - 4:30pm

Jeff Brock

Brown University

Location

University of Pennsylvania

DRL 4C8

In this talk I will discuss a range of analogies between the geometry and spectra of Teichmüller space with its Weil-Petersson metric and the internal geometry of hyperbolic 3-manifolds. In particular, connections between volume in 3-dimensions and length in Teichmüller space seem too strong to be accidental, but I will present fundamental distinctions that arise in the thin part of moduli space.