Cutting sequences on Bouw-Möller surfaces

Seminar: 
Group Actions and Dynamics
Event time: 
Monday, February 11, 2013 - 11:30am to 12:30pm
Location: 
431 DL
Speaker: 
Diana Davis
Speaker affiliation: 
Brown
Event description: 

We will investigate a dynamical system that comes from geodesic trajectories on flat surfaces. We will start with the square torus and the regular octagon surface, and then discuss new results for Bouw-Möller surfaces, made from many polygons.