Deviation for billiards in polygons

Seminar: 
Group Actions and Dynamics
Event time: 
Monday, November 6, 2006 - 11:30am to Sunday, November 5, 2006 - 7:00pm
Location: 
431 DL
Speaker: 
Jayadev Athreya
Speaker affiliation: 
Yale University
Event description: 

We describe joint work with G. Forni in which we obtain
estimates on the deviation behavior of billiards in polygons via quantitative recurrence estimates for Teichmuller geodesic flow.