Moon Duchin homesite

Moon Duchin
postdoc, UC Davis Dept of Mathematics

news: going to U Michigan for a postdoc position in Fall 2008
(new website coming soon)

Upcoming/recent talks.

Special session in Geometric Analysis, AMS Sectional Meeting, Wesleyan University, 11-12 October 2008.
Colloquium, San Jose State University, 10 September 2008.
William Rowan Hamilton Geometry and Topology Workshop, Dublin, Ireland, 28-30 August 2008.
Wasatch Topology Conference, University of Utah, 9 August 2008.
Snowbird Workshop, 14-20 June 2008.
Workshop: Hyperbolic structures and Kleinian groups, Ahlfors-Bers Colloquium, Rutgers-Newark, 8-11 May 2008.
Colloquium, University of Oklahoma, 24 April 2008.
Workshop: Dynamics of Teichmuller space, University of Michigan, 11-13 April 2008.
Spring Topology and Dynamics Conference, UW Milwaukee, 13-15 March 2008.

Papers, preprints, projects.

Thin triangles and a multiplicative ergodic theorem for Teichmuller geometry, submitted (math.GT/0508046)
Curvature, stretchiness, and dynamics, In the Tradition of Ahlfors and Bers IV, Contemp. Math. 432 (2007).
Divergence of geodesics in Teichmuller space and the mapping class group (with Kasra Rafi), submitted (math.GT/0611359)
Stars at infinity in Teichmuller space (with Joseph Maher), in preparation
The length spectrum of a flat metric (with Chris Leininger and Kasra Rafi), in preparation [video]

Research Focus Group.

For the 2006-07 school year, I led a VIGRE-funded RFG on the subject of Geometric Group Theory.

Teaching.

Spring 2008
MAT 141, Euclidean Geometry [web]

Winter 2008
MAT 111, History of Math [web]
Winter 2007
MAT 111, History of Math [web]

Fall 2006
MAT 180, Continued Fractions and Geometric Coding [web]

Spring 2006
MAT 16A, Short Calculus [web]
MAT 116, Elements of Differential Geometry [web]

Fall 2005
MAT 210A, Topics in Geometry: Fuchsian Groups [web]

Other.

Archived teaching evaluation pages from the University of Chicago (Topics / Calc I / Calc II)

Expository lecture at MSRI, August 16, "The curve complex and its relatives" (video), from Connections for Women workshop (Teichmuller theory and Kleinian groups program), co-organized with Caroline Series.

Recent travel: Portland, OR (Mathcamp at Reed) July 21-26, Salt Lake City, August 9-10, Dublin, Ireland August 26-Sept 1
Upcoming travel plans: Palo Alto (AIM) Sept 8-14, Atlanta Oct 2-5, Connecticut Oct 9-12

mduchin@math.ucdavis.edu
MSB 2111, (530)754-8158

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	`Spring 2008` MAT 141, Euclidean Geometry [web]
	`Winter 2008` MAT 111, History of Math [web] `Winter 2007` MAT 111, History of Math [web]
	`Fall 2006` MAT 180, Continued Fractions and Geometric Coding [web]
	`Spring 2006` MAT 16A, Short Calculus [web] MAT 116, Elements of Differential Geometry [web]
	`Fall 2005` MAT 210A, Topics in Geometry: Fuchsian Groups [web]