Short Course Description
This course will be a gentle introduction to hyperbolic geometry and Teichmuller theory.
Topics will include: Poincare's polyhedral theorem, ergodicity and mixing of the geodesic flow on a Riemann surface, moduli of curve families, quasiconformal mappings, quadratic differentials, Teichmuller's theorem, compactifications of moduli space, Kleinian groups, hyperbolic 3-manifolds and Mostow rigidity.
Full syllabus is to be published
