Lectures in memory of Lars Ahlfors
By: Robert Brooks, Mikhail Sodin, editors.
Contributors: Brooks, Robert, 1952-; Sodin, Mikhail.; Universiṭat Bar-Ilan. Research Institute of Mathematical Sciences.
Series: Israel mathematical conference proceedings ;; v. 14
Publisher: Published under the auspices of the Gelbart Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences and the Emmy Noether Research Institute of Mathematics, Bar-Ilan University; American Mathematical Society [distributor]
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Ramat-Gan, Israel; Providence, RI
Language: eng
Number of pages: 158
Subjects: Ahlfors, Lars Valerian, 1907- -- Congresses.; Riemann surfaces -- Congresses.; Functions of complex variables -- Congresses.; Quasiconformal mappings -- Congresses.; Functions, Meromorphic -- Congresses.; Geometric function theory -- Congresses.; Fonctions d'une variable complexe.; Applications conformes.; Riemann, Surfaces de.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Essays from a series of lectures held between November 25 to December 23, 1996 at the Technion, Haifa, Israel.
Table of contents: title: Lars Ahlfors (1907-1996) / R. Brooks.; title: Geometric finiteness and rigidity of Kleinian groups / W. Abikoff.; title: Some geometric aspects of the work of Lars Ahlfors / R. Brooks.; title: Ahlfors' contribution to the theory of meromorphic functions / A. Eremenko.; title: Weierstrass points and the theta divisor / H.M. Farkas.; title: Spaces of Riemann surfaces / S.L. Krushkal.; title: Lars Ahlfors' thesis / M. Sodin.; title: Extremal lengths and quasiconformal maps / U. Srebro.