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<div>This week we will meet as usual on Thursday, September 12 at 2:50pm
in WH 100E. <br /></div>
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<div>Seminar dinner will take place at the Garage Taco bar at 6pm, after
the seminar. All are welcome!<br /></div>
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<div>Speaker: <strong>Caglar Uyanik</strong> (Yale University) <br /></div>
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Title: <strong>Dynamics on geodesic currents and atoroidal subgroups of
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<p> <em>Abstract: </em> Geodesic currents on surfaces are measure
theoretic  generalizations of closed curves on surfaces and they play an
important  role in the study of the Teichmuller spaces. I will talk about
their  analogs in the setting of free groups, and try to illustrate how
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