The distribution of saddle connection directions

Seminar: 
Geometry & Topology
Event time: 
Thursday, September 18, 2008 - 10:30am to Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - 8:00pm
Location: 
LOM 201
Speaker: 
Jayadev Athreya
Speaker affiliation: 
Yale University
Event description: 

Inspired by work of Markloff-Strombergsson on the distribution of lattice points in thin sets in Euclidean space, we pursue analogous results for the set of holonomy vectors of saddle connections on flat surfaces.