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Autumn Semester 2024

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3 October 2024
16:15-17:15 		Marie Abadie
University of Luxembourg
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Geometry Graduate Colloquium

Title Surfaces, graphs and complexes
Speaker, Affiliation Marie Abadie, University of Luxembourg
Date, Time 3 October 2024, 16:15-17:15
Location HG G 19.2
Abstract The goal of this talk is to provide a brief overview of the interactions between hyperbolic surfaces and certain combinatorial objects. Specifically, we will explore Brock's combinatorial approach to understanding the coarse geometry of Teichmüller space equipped with the Weil-Petersson metric. This approach revolves around using the pants graph as a combinatorial tool for navigating Teichmüller space. Along the way, we will also encounter the hexagons graph and other related questions.
Surfaces, graphs and complexesread_more
HG G 19.2
10 October 2024
16:15-17:15 		Raphael Appenzeller
Heidelberg University
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Geometry Graduate Colloquium

Title Hyperbolicity and winning strategies in Cops and Robbers games
Speaker, Affiliation Raphael Appenzeller, Heidelberg University
Date, Time 10 October 2024, 16:15-17:15
Location HG G 19.2
Abstract Cops and Robbers is a two-player game played on graphs, where one player tries to catch the other, while the other tries to escape. Recently, a version of this game was introduced, where the existence of a winning strategy is invariant under quasi-isometry. This allows to play the game on Cayley-graphs of groups and gives new group invariants. We spotlight some connections between Gromov-hyperbolicity and the existence of winning strategies.
Hyperbolicity and winning strategies in Cops and Robbers gamesread_more
HG G 19.2
17 October 2024
16:15-17:15 		Sophie Schmidhuber
University of Zurich
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Geometry Graduate Colloquium

Title Billiard dynamics and Masur’s Criterion
Speaker, Affiliation Sophie Schmidhuber, University of Zurich
Date, Time 17 October 2024, 16:15-17:15
Location HG G 19.2
Abstract In this talk, we will show how the trajectory of a billiard ball on a billiard table with rational angles can be understood via the straight line flow on a translation surface. We will define the geodesic flow for the moduli space of translation surfaces and provide a simple but elegant proof for Masur's Criterion, which states that if the trajectory of a translation surface under the geodesic flow is recurrent, then the vertical straight line flow on the translation surface is uniquely ergodic.
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HG G 19.2
24 October 2024
16:15-17:15 		Cynthia Bortolotto
ETH Zurich
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Geometry Graduate Colloquium

Title On distribution of random chords in the plane
Speaker, Affiliation Cynthia Bortolotto, ETH Zurich
Date, Time 24 October 2024, 16:15-17:15
Location HG G 19.2
On distribution of random chords in the plane
HG G 19.2
31 October 2024
16:15-17:15 		Layne Hall
University of Warwick
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Geometry Graduate Colloquium

Title The correspondence between pseudo-Anosov flows and veering triangulations.
Speaker, Affiliation Layne Hall, University of Warwick
Date, Time 31 October 2024, 16:15-17:15
Location HG G 19.2
The correspondence between pseudo-Anosov flows and veering triangulations.
HG G 19.2
7 November 2024
16:15-17:15 		Huaitao Gui
University of Copenhagen
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Geometry Graduate Colloquium

Title Injective metric spaces and locally elliptic action
Speaker, Affiliation Huaitao Gui, University of Copenhagen
Date, Time 7 November 2024, 16:15-17:15
Location HG G 19.2
Injective metric spaces and locally elliptic action
HG G 19.2
14 November 2024
16:15-17:15 		Laura Lankers
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig
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Geometry Graduate Colloquium

Title Some Higher Teichmüller theory and SO(p,q)
Speaker, Affiliation Laura Lankers, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig
Date, Time 14 November 2024, 16:15-17:15
Location HG G 19.2
Some Higher Teichmüller theory and SO(p,q)
HG G 19.2

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