[Binghamton Geometry Topology Seminar] Geometry and Topology seminar: Jenya Sapir

[Cary Malkiewich]

Hi everyone,

A quick reminder about Jenya's talk today at 2:50pm, and topology lunch at
noon. See you there!

Cary

On Tue, Oct 10, 2023 at 4:54 PM Cary Malkiewich <
malkiewich at math.binghamton.edu> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> This week we are pleased to have our very own Jenya Sapir speaking about
> geodesic current, title and abstract below. This will be an in person talk,
> on Thursday at 2:50pm in WH 100E.
>
> We will also have a lunch social, meet at 12pm just outside WH100E. See
> you there!
>
> Best,
> Cary
>
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> *Title:* Geometry of geodesic currents
> *Abstract:* The space of projective, filling currents PFC(S) contains
> many structures relating to a closed, genus g surface S. For example, it
> contains the set of all closed curves on S, as well as an embedded copy of
> Teichmuller space, and many other spaces of metrics on S. We will discuss a
> structure theorem that compares each filling current with a suitably chosen
> point in Teichmuller space. We will then use this structure theorem to
> explore the geometry of PFC(S) under an extension of the Thurston metric.
>
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