Ergodicity of the Weil-Petersson geodesic flow
Time
Sep 12 2013 – 4:30pm – 5:30 pm
Location
MA230
Speaker
Keith Burns (Northwestern)
Abstract
The lecture will describe the Weil-Petersson metric on the moduli
space of a surface and (at least some of ) the ideas that go into the
proof that its geodesic flow is ergodic. This is joint work with Howard Masur and Amie Wilkinson.