Distances of pants decompositions and volumes of hyperbolic 3-manifolds

Seminar: 
Geometry & Topology
Event time: 
Thursday, October 28, 2004 - 12:30pm to Wednesday, October 27, 2004 - 8:00pm
Location: 
431 DL
Speaker: 
Juan Souto
Speaker affiliation: 
CNRS
Event description: 

We show that the volume of a hyperbolic 3-manifold can be
estimated from above and below in terms of the combinatorics of one of
its Heegaard splittings. Joint work with Jeff Brock.