SMS scnews item created by Catherine Meister at Thu 12 Sep 2024 1038
Type: Seminar
Distribution: World
Expiry: 10 Oct 2024
Calendar1: 20 Sep 2024 0900-1100
CalLoc1: SMRI Seminar Room at Macleay Building (A12) Room 301
CalTitle1: Informal Friday Seminar: Introduction to translation surfaces
Calendar2: 27 Sep 2024 0900-1100
CalLoc2: SMRI Seminar Room at Macleay Building (A12) Room 301
CalTitle2: Informal Friday Seminar: Introduction to translation surfaces
Auth: cmeister@w95s10l3.staff.sydney.edu.au (cmei0631) in SMS-SAML

Informal Friday Seminar: Le Fils -- Introduction to translation surfaces

Title: Introduction to translation surfaces.  

Abstract: How can billiards help us find shortest paths in the space of Riemann
surfaces? What does this have to do with shuffling pieces of intervals? 

Translation surfaces and their moduli spaces will allow us to answer these questions.  

Gluing opposite sides of a parallelogram together gives a torus.  A translation surface
is a surface obtained by identifying sides of more complicated polygons by
translations.  

I will give an introduction to translation surfaces and their moduli space.  We will
discuss dynamics on both of these objects and their connections.


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