On Cannon's conjecture

Series
Geometry Topology Seminar
Time
Monday, November 24, 2008 - 2:00pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 269
Speaker
Sa'ar Hersonsky – University of Georgia
Organizer
John Etnyre
Cannon: "A f.g. negatively curved group with boundary homeomorphic to the round two sphere is Kleinian". We shall outline a combinatorial (complex analysis motivated) approach to this interesting conjecture (following Cannon, Cannon-Floyd-Parry). If time allows we will hint on another approach (Bonk-Kleiner) (as well as ours). The talk should be accessible to graduate students with solid background in: complex analysis, group theory and basic topology.