Seminar series
Date
Thu, 07 Feb 2019
16:00
16:00
Location
C4
Speaker
Mehdi Yazdi
Organisation
Oxford University
I will give an overview of the Nielsen-Thurston theory of the mapping class group and its connection to hyperbolic geometry and dynamics. Time permitting, I will discuss the surface entropy conjecture and a theorem of Hamenstadt on entropies of `generic' elements of the mapping class group. No prior knowledge of the concepts involved is required.