Course: Mathematics 9064
Course Title: Topics in geometry and topology
Time: Tuesday/Thursday 1330-1450
Place: Wachman 527
Instructor: Radhika Gupta
Instructor Office: Wachman Hall 1027
Instructor Email: radhika.gupta@temple.edu
Office Hours: By appointment
Resources: Notes of Casson-Bleiler, notes of Aramayona-Leininger, Bonahon's paper. These and other references available here.
Course Outline: We will study hyperbolic structures on surfaces, measured laminations, Teichmuller space and geodesic currents. As an application of these tools, we will study Bonahon's embedding of Teichmuller space into the space of geodesic currents and give an alternate construction of Thurston's compactification of Teichmuller space.
Class presentations: TBD
Topics/Questions to think about, i.e optional homework. Here