Six survey and expository papers and 11 research papers explore hyperbolic geometry, symplectic geometry, geometric topology, and other areas of geometry and topology. Among the topics are the ergodic theory of hyperbolic groups, harmonic maps and integrable systems, left-orderability and exceptional Dehn surgery on two-bridge knots, the commensurability of knots and L2-unvariants, the number of hyperbolic 3-manifolds of a given volume, and 3-manifolds with Heegaard splittings of distance two. Rubinstein himself weighs in with a list of his favorite problems. The proceedings are not indexed. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Survey and expository papers:
What is an almost normal surface? by J. Hass
The ergodic theory of hyperbolic groups by D. Calegari
Mapping class groups of 3-manifolds, then and now by S. Hong and D.
McCullough
Stacks of hyperbolic spaces and ends of 3-manifolds by B. H. Bowditch
Harmonic maps and integrable systems by E. Carberry
Some of Hyam's favourite problems by H. Rubinstein
Research papers:
Almost normal surfaces with boundary by D. Bachman, R. Derby-Talbot, and E.
Sedgwick
Computational topology with Regina: Algorithms, heuristics and
implementations by B. A. Burton
Left-orderability and exceptional Dehn surgery on two-bridge knots by A. Clay
and M. Teragaito
Networking Seifert surgeries on knots IV: Seiferters and branched coverings
by A. Deruelle, M. Eudave-Munoz, K. Miyazaki, and K. Motegi
Commensurability of knots and $L^2$-invariants by S. Friedl
The groups of fibred 2-knots by J. A. Hillman
On the number of hyperbolic 3-manifolds of a given volume by C. Hodgson and
H. Masai
Seifert fibered surgery and Rasmussen invariant by K. Ichihara and I. D.
Jong
Existence of spherical angle structures on 3-manifolds by F. Luo
3-manifolds with Heegaard splittings of distance two by J. H. Rubinstein and
A. Thompson
Generating the genus $g 1$ Goeritz group of a genus $g$ handlebody by M.
Scharlemann
Craig D. Hodgson, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
William H. Jaco, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, USA
Martin G. Scharlemann, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Stephan Tillmann, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia