Date:	Tue, December 3, 2013
Time:	15:45
Place:	Research I Seminar Room

Abstract: Suppose $(M_i,p_i)$ is a sequence of pointed closed Riemannian manifolds so that the diameters of $M_i$ grow without bounds. By Gromov's compactness theorem, under conditions on curvature and injectivity radius, this sequence has a subsequence converging in the pointed Gromov-Hausdorff topology to a pointed Riemannian manifold $(X,p)$. But what is $X$ typically like?

Under the additional condition that manifolds $M_i$ are uniformly quasiconformally equivalent to a fixed manifold, $X$ is almost surely (in a suitable sense) quasiconformal to either the Euclidean space or a puncture Euclidean space.

In this talk I will discuss this and similar results for surfaces and graphs and the relation of these results to the work of Benjamini and Schramm. This is joint work with Hossein Namazi and Juan Souto.