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.