Quasiconformal geometry of metric spaces:

uniformization and rigidity


Bruce Kleiner (Ann Arbor)




The lectures will discuss quasisymmetric homeomorphisms of metric spaces. Topics will include

-       Uniformization/geometrization: finding good parametrizations or “optimal” underlying geometric structure.

-       Rigidity: determining the group of quasisymmetric homeomorphisms.

-       Motivation for these topics coming from geometric group theory and geometric topology.