In the Tradition of Ahlfors-Bers, IV: Ahlfors-bers Colloquium May 19 - 22, 2005 University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan

Lars Ahlfors and Lipman Bers created significant mathematical legacies within the fields of algebraic geometry, mathematical physics, dynamics, geometric group theory, number theory and topology. In these proceedings of the May 2005 colloquium that bears their names, contributors present new research and also some expository material in such studies as uniformly exponential growth and mapping of class groups of surfaces, curvature and stretchiness and their relation to dynamics, some special loci in the Segal space of genus two, a new approach to the automorphism theorem for Teichmüller spaces, the energy of twisted harmonic maps of Riemann spaces, small eigenvalues and maximal laminations on complete surfaces of negative curvature, a generalized hyperbolic metric for plane domains, random hyperbolic surfaces and measured laminations and, as befitting, a survey of the complete analyst's traveling salesman theorems. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)