Translation surfaces and Teichmuller dynamics- John Smillie

Conference Title: GEAR Retreat 2012 Theme: Dynamics on Moduli Spaces (1 of 5) Title: Translation surfaces and Teichmuller dynamics Speaker: John Smillie, Cornell University; Date and Time: Thursday August 9, 09:30 Description: This talk will be an introduction to translation surfaces, their moduli spaces and certain natural dynamical systems defined on their moduli spaces. I will describe some motivating examples, some known results and some open questions. Sponsor: GEAR Network Local host: UIUC Department of Mathematics Funding provided by: National Science Foundation Research Networks in Mathematical Sciences programAbstract: Prof. John Smillie, in this GEAR Retreat 2012 session on Dynamics on Moduli Spaces, will translate surfaces, their moduli spaces and certain natural dynamical systems defined on their moduli spaces.