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His talk will focus on lemma 2.1 from the above mentioned paper, leading into upcoming joint work with Bedaride, Hooper, and Hubert on the ergodicity of billiard flows in right-angled prisms
Helpful background for reading: Basic ergodic theory, and fourier analysis on the circle
Helpful notes for reading: Students should be familiar with some basic complex analysis and topology (at the undergrad level). They should also be familiar with some abstract algebra (field extensions, and familiarity with some basic Galois theory if possible -- this is helpful but not essential).
Sara Maloni on On the character variety of the three-holed projective plane, her joint work with Frédéric Palesi, and On the character variety of the four-holed sphere, her joint work with Frédéric Palesi and Ser Peow Tan
Her research interests from her website are: geometric structures on 2 and 3-manifolds, Kleinian groups, low dimensional topology, hyperbolic and Anti-de Sitter geometry, and (higher) Teichmüller theory.
Helpful keywords for reading: character varieties, mapping class groups, proper discontinuities, quasi-Fuchsian groups
Friday-Saturday, Sept 27-28
October-November
Early December
Pre-talk for Bowditch Representations and dynamics on character varieties by Adam Friedman-Brown, A graduate student at the University of Virginia at the time of recording.
Pre-Talk for Factoring Gleason Polynomials Modulo 2 by Malavika Mukundan, a postdoc at Boston University at the time of recording.
Pre-Talk for Strict Ergodicity and Transformation of the Torus by Grace Work, Faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison at the time of recording.