R. Santharoubane - Quantum representations of surface groups

Multicurves have played a fundamental role in the study of mapping class groups of surfaces since the work of Dehn. A beautiful method of describing such systems on the n-punctured disk is given by

In  the  first two lectures I will try to tell (or, rather, to  give  an  idea)  of  how  Maryam Mirzakhani has counted simple  closed  geodesics on hyperbolic surfaces. I plan to briefly  mention her

In  the  first two lectures I will try to tell (or, rather, to  give  an  idea)  of  how  Maryam Mirzakhani has counted simple  closed  geodesics on hyperbolic surfaces. I plan to briefly  mention her

1. Symbolic dynamics: Arnoux - Rauzy words and Rauzy gasket 2. Topology: Arnoux - Yoccoz example and its generalization 3. Novikov’s problem: how dynamics meets topology and together they help to

Effective convergence of ergodic averages and cusp excursions of geodesics on moduli spaces We survey some applications of effective convergence of ergodic averages to the analysis of cusp ex

In the principal stratum in genus two, McMullen observed that something odd happens - there is only one nonarithmetic Teichmuller curve - the one generated by the decagon.  This strange phenomenon

a) basic definitions and examples b) strata and genus c) reduced and primitive origamis, SL(2,R) action, Veech groups d) automorphisms and affine homeomorphisms e) homology of origamis f) Kontsevich

K3 surfaces provide a meeting ground for geometry (algebraic, differential), arithmetic, and dynamics. I hope to discuss: Basic definitions and examples - Geometry (algebraic, differential, etc.) of

We will give the proof of Mirzakhani's theorem that the earthquake flow and Teichmuller unipotent flow are measurably isomorphic. We will assume some familiarity with quadratic differentials, but no

I will start by describing the Teichmuller space of a surface of finite type from the perspective of both hyperbolic and complex structures and the action of the mapping class group on it.

The first part of the course will be devoted to some of the classical results about mapping class groups of finite-type surfaces. Topics may include: generation by twists, Nielsen-Thurston

Singular euclidean structures on surfaces are a key tool in the study of the mapping class group, of Teichmüller space, and of kleinian three-manifolds.  François Guéritaud, while studying work of Ian