Dr. Renato Bettiol, Lehman College
Minimal surfaces in elongated ellipsoids
Imagine stretching an n-dimensional ellipsoid inside Euclidean space so that one of its semiaxes becomes very large. This causes a corresponding stretching of geometric objects that locally minimize length (geodesics) or area (minimal surfaces) inside…
Dick Canary, University of Michigan
Abstract: Fuchsian groups arise naturally as groups of covering transformations of hyperbolic surfaces. One may view them as images of discrete faithful representation of free groups and surface groups into
PSL(2,R). The study of hyperbolic surfaces and deformation spaces of Fuchsian groups is…