CTQM Nielsen Lecture

Professor Curtis T. McMullen
Mathematics Department, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA

Poster for the Lecture.

Nielsen Lecture

Billiards and Teichmüller curves

Wednesday, 2 April, 2008 at 15:30 in Auditorium F at the Department of Mathematical Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Aarhus.

Abstract: The moduli space of Riemann surfaces is filled with algebraic curves, but very few of these are isometrically embedded. This talk will present new constructions of these special curves and discuss their relationship to ergodic theory over moduli space, Jacobians with special symmetry, and subgroups of the mapping-class group. Explicit examples give new billiard tables with optimal dynamical properties.

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Reception

CTQM will host a reception after the lecture.

Further information

For further information, please contact

CTQM Director Jørgen Ellegaard Andersen, andersen@imf.au.dk

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