Geometric Statistics of Ford Circles

Seminar: 
Group Actions and Dynamics
Event time: 
Monday, November 3, 2014 - 11:15am to 12:15pm
Location: 
205 LOM
Speaker: 
Jayadev Athreya
Speaker affiliation: 
UIUC
Event description: 

We explore the statistics of various geometric quantities associated to Ford circles, using horocycle flow on the modular surfaces. This is joint work with S. Chaubey, A. Malik, and A. Zaharescu.