We meet Thursdays at 2:45–3:45 pm in Whitney Hall 100E. This semester's organizers are James Hyde and Lorenzo Ruffoni. The seminar has an announcement mailing list open to all.

Topics include: geometric group theory, differential geometry and topology, low-dimensional topology, algebraic topology, and homotopy theory.

• January 29h
  Speaker: Juliet Aygun (Cornell)
  Title: Counting geodesics on prime-order k-differentials

  Abstract: It has been of popular interest over the last several decades to count geodesics with respect to their length on flat surfaces. Asymptotics of these counting functions for generic translation surfaces, which are Riemann surfaces with a holomorphic one form, have been determined by the pioneering work of Eskin-Masur-Zorich. There is a more general type of flat surface called a (1/k)-translation surface, which is a Riemann surface with a k-differential. Equivalently, a (1/k)-translation surface is a collection of polygons in the complex plane with sides identified pairwise by translation and possible rotations of 2pi/k. In this talk, we will discuss asymptotics of these counting functions on generic (1/k)-translation surfaces when k is prime and genus is more than two. The main tools I will discuss are GL+(2,R)-orbit closures and a result of Eskin-Mirzakhani-Mohammadi which relates asymptotics to GL+(2,R)-orbit closures.
  

• February 5th
  Speaker: Barry Minemyer (Commonwealth University - Bloomsburg)
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• February 12th
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• February 19th
  Speaker: Satya Howladar (University of Florida)
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• February 26th
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• March 5th
  Speaker: Oliver Wang (University of Virginia)
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• April 2nd

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• April 9th
  Speaker: Sanjana Agarwal (Indiana University, Bloomington)
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• April 16th
  Speaker: Josefien Kuijper (University of Toronto)
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