Summer Lectures in Geometry 

16/06/2005, 11:00 — 12:00 — Room P12, Mathematics Building
William Goldman, University of Maryland

Projective geometry on manifolds (IV)

Poisson geometry on Fricke spaces

• Symplectic geometry.
• Fricke's theorem on rank two free groups.
• Fenchel-Nielsen coordinates and their generalizations.
• Action of the mapping class group.
• Penner-Fock coordinates.