Colloquium 9.12.13

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.