Schedule of talks.

17.04.02	Euclidean and Spherical Surfaces I (U. Kleine)
24.04.02	Euclidean and Spherical Surfaces II (R. Martins)
08.05.02	Models of the Hyperbolic Plane (K. Kaune)
15.05.02	Geodesics and Isometries of H2 (P. Schlautmann)
29.05.02	Classification of Isometries of H2 (N. Runte)
05.06.02	Hyperbolic Surfaces I (A. Lehmann)
12.06.02	Kein Seminar
19.06.02	Hyperbolic Surfaces II (M.A. Rodriguez)
26.06.02	Orbifolds and the Riemann-Hurwitz Formula (I. Wieck)
03.07.02	Seifert Fibre Spaces, the eight 3-dimensional Geometries, geometric 3-manifolds (H. Geiges)
10.07.02	Geometry of the Universe (G. Kalil)

Literature.

The main sources are:

• the book of J. Stillwell, Geometry of surfaces, Springer 1992, for the first seven talks;
• the paper of P. Scott, The geometries of 3-manifolds, Bull. London. Math. Soc. 15 (1983), 401-487, for the following ones.
• W.P. Thurston, Three-Dimensional Geometry and Topology, vol. 1, Princeton University Press 1997, as a general companion.

• Audin, The Topology of Torus Actions on Symplectic Manifolds, Birkhäuser 1991.

• N. J. Cornish, J. R. Weeks, Measuring the shape of the universe, Notices of the AMS, December 1998
• M. Lachièze-Rey, J.-P. Luminet, Cosmic Topology, Physics Reports 245 (1995), 135-214

• G. D. Starkman, Topology and Cosmology, 2529-2538;
• J. R. Weeks, Reconstructing the global topology of the universe from the cosmic microwave background, 2599-2604;
• V. B. Roukema, V. Blanloeil, Three-dimensional topology-independent methods to look for global topology, 2645-2655;
• J. Levin, E. Scannapieco, J. Silk, The topology of the universe: the biggest manifold of them all, 2689-2697;
• J. R. Gott, Topology and the universe, 2719-2731.

F. Pasquotto, February 13, 2002.