Event time:
Monday, September 22, 2008 - 12:30pm to 1:30pm
Location:
431 DL
Speaker:
Jayadev Athreya
Speaker affiliation:
Yale
Event description:
In joint work with G. Margulis, we explore the relationship between cusp excursions for horocycle flow on the (unit tangent bundle of the) modular surface SL(2, R)/SL(2, Z) and diophantine approximation.