Date:	Tue, March 2, 2010
Time:	14:00
Place:	Research I Seminar Room

Abstract: I will start by giving a short introduction to Teichmueller spaces and Thurston theory, in particular, I will define Thurston's iteration map (and give some examples if time allows it). Then I am going to show how to extend this map to the augmented Teichmueller space. In conclusion, I will give an idea how to use this fact to simplify Thurston's characterization theorem.