Effective equidistribution of horocycles on geometrically finite hyperbolic surfaces

Seminar: 
Group Actions and Dynamics
Event time: 
Monday, March 25, 2019 - 4:15pm
Speaker: 
Sam Edwards
Speaker affiliation: 
Yale
Event description: 

We will discuss various issues related to the equidistribution of horocycles in geometrically finite hyperbolic surfaces. Particular focus will be given to quantifying the convergence of ergodic averages along non-closed horocycles towards the Burger-Roblin measure.