Dynamics on geodesic currents and applications to $Out(F_N)$

Seminar: 
Geometry & Topology
Event time: 
Tuesday, September 4, 2018 - 4:15pm
Location: 
DL 431
Speaker: 
Caglar Uyanik
Speaker affiliation: 
Yale
Event description: 

 I will talk about the long standing analogy between the mapping class groups and $Out(F_N)$, and describe a Nielsen-Thurston type approach to study subgroups structure of $Out(F_N)$ from a dynamical viewpoint. This is joint work with Matt Clay. 

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