Workshop on polynomial matings
June 8th-11th 2011

Sponsored by At the Boundary of Chaos, a grant of the Agence Nationale de la Recherche.


Short description:
The notion of mating of two polynomials has been introduced by Douady and Hubbard in order to describe the connectdness locus of families of rational maps. The goal of this workshop is to combine lectures introducing this notion and the presentation of recent developments.

Speakers: Magnus Aspenberg, Xavier Buff, Shaun Bullet, Arnaud Chéritat, Andrew Curtis, Adam Epstein, John H. Hubbard, Sarah Koch, Russel Lodge, Daniel Meyer, Carsten Petersen, Kevin Pilgrim, Mary Rees, Thomas Sharland, Mitsuhiro Shishikura, Tan Lei, Vladlen Timorin.

Organiser: P. Roesch

Venue:Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse
Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
(Directions)
Amphithéâtre Schwartz, bâtiment 1R3.

Dates: The first talks will occur in the morning of wednesday 8th and finish in the afternoon of saturday 11th. It is recommended to arrive on tuesday evening and leave on sunday.


Group: photo 1, photo 2, photo 3, photo 4.
Restaurant: photo 1, photo 2, photo 3.