Home Page of Misha Kapovich

(Миша Капович)

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.

List of publications

Teaching:

Riemann Surfaces	MAT-280, Spring 2007
Geometric Group Theory	MAT-280, Spring 2009
RFG "What is What in Hyperbolic Geometry"	MAT-290, 2010-2011
Calculus	MAT-21A, Fall 2011

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

Conference "Generalized eigenvalue problem, saturation and Schubert calculus"
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. May 25 - 29, 2009.
Organized by P. Belkale, T. Haines, M. Kapovich, S. Kumar and J. Millson, and supported by an FRG grant from NSF.

Fifth Ahlfors-Bers Colloquium, March 24-27, 2011, Rice University

Organized by K. Astala, M. Bonk, W. Goldman, U. Hamenstadt, M. Kapovich, H. Masur, Y. Minsky,
A. Reid, S. Rohde, R. Rodriguez, M. Wolf, S. Wolpert, and supported by NSF.

LMS Symposium "Geometry and Arithmetic of Lattices", Durham University,
July 4-July 13, 2010
Organized by M. Belolipetsky, M. Bridson, M. Kapovich, M. Lackenby, J. Parker, A. Reid, and supported by EPSRC.

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