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Joint CUNY and Courant

New York City Rigidity Theory Workshop

Friday, March 10, 2006

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Elon Lindenstrauss

Princeton University

Periodic Orbits in the Space of Lattices

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David Fisher

Indiana University - Bloomington

Coarse differentiation of quasi-isometries and rigidity for lattices in solvable Lie groups.

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Anna Wienhard

Institute for Advanced Study

Bounded cohomology and applications to rigidity

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Tsachik Gelander

Yale University

Super-rigidity, generalized harmonic maps, and uniformly convex metric spaces.

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Organizers:

Christina Sormani, CUNY Graduate Center

Stefan Wenger, Courant Institute

We will meet at Courant Institute, NYU, rooms 109 and 1302. Bring ID to show the guard. No registration is necessary.

More information is available at:

http://comet.lehman.cuny.edu/sormani/conf/2006/rigidity.html

or just google "New York City Rigidity"