Home Page of Misha Kapovich

(Миша Капович)

Department of Mathematics
1 Shields Ave., Kerr
University of California, Davis
Davis, CA 95616-8633
Email: kapovich(AT)math.ucdavis.edu
Tel : +1 530 - 754-9376
Fax: +1 530 - 752-6635

Research interests:

Low dimensional geometry and topology. Kleinian groups and hyperbolic manifolds in all dimensions.

Representation varieties of finitely generated groups.

Configuration spaces of elementary geometric objects like arrangements and mechanical linkages.

Fundamental groups of Kahler manifolds and smooth algebraic varieties.

Manifolds of nonpositive curvature and quasi-isometries. Geometric group theory.

Geometric representation theory of Lie groups.

My electronic preprints

List of publications

Teaching:

Linear Algebra	Math. 22A, Winter 2008
Riemann Surfaces	Math. 280, Spring 2007
Advanced Calculus	Math. 25, Spring 2008
Calculus	Math 21B, Spring 2008

Conference Lie Groups, Geometry and Discrete Groups
University of Maryland, March 20 - 23, 2008

RFG in geometric group theory

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