Mapping Class Group

I helped to produce notes for Lee Mosher’s class on mapping class groups (I added figures and some comments to his slides)

August-December 2007 at MSRI

Class 1	Goals for the class, a description of the solution of the conjugacy problem for MCG(T^2) (I did not edit these slides)
Class 2	Proof of the classification of conjugacy problem for MCG(T^2), rectangle decomposition.
Class 3	Classification of elements in MCG(S), Teichmuller space, uniqueness of pA representatives of a mapping class.
Classes 4, 5 and 6 combined	Invariants of conjugacy classes of pseudo Anosov homeos, solution of problem in case of pA.
Class 7	Solution of conj problem in the case of periodic mapping classes
Class 8	Solution of conj problem in the case of reducible mapping classes
Class 9	Omnibus subgroup theorem implies three older theorems
Class 10	Proof of Tits alternative
Class 11	Proof of Omnibus subgroup theorem.

Notes for Mladen Bestvina's class: GROUPS AS METRIC SPACES