Topology and teichmuller spaces

Includes bibliographical references

Mr. Toyosaburo Taniguchi and the Taniguchi Foundation / S. Murakami Computing on Riemann surfaces / P. Buser and / M. Seppälä Volumes and Chern-Simons invariants of cyclic coverings over rational knots / H.M. Hilden / M.T. Lozano and / J.M. Montesinos-Amilibia An estimate of the number of non-constant holomorphic maps between Riemann surfaces / Y. Imayoshi An infinitesimal approach to the stable cohomology of the moduli of Riemann surfaces / N.Kawazumi Deformations of hyperbolic cone manifolds / S.P. Kerckhoff Nonsingular parts of hyperbolic 3-cone-manifolds / S. Kojima Lefschetz fibrations of genus two a topological approach / Y. Matsumoto A geometric approach to the complex curves on a surface / Y. N. Minsky A linear representation of the mapping class group of orientable surfaces and characteristic classes of surface bundles / S. Morita Mathematics in and out of string theory / S. Nag Parabolization of elements of Kleinian groups / K. Ohshika The simplicial compactification of Riemann's moduli space / R.C. Penner Character variety of representations of a finitely generated group in SL₂ / K. Saito The third bounded cohomology and Kleinian groups / T. Soma Bloch topology of the universal Teichmüller space / M. Taniguchi.

This proceedings is a collection of articles on Topology and Teichm ller Spaces. Special emphasis is being put on the universal Teichm ller space, the topology of moduli of algebraic curves, the space of representations of discrete groups, Kleinian groups and Dehn filling deformations, the geometry of Riemann surfaces, and some related topics.