Event time:
Tuesday, February 8, 2011 - 8:30am to 9:30am
Location:
214LOM
Speaker:
Joseph Maher
Speaker affiliation:
CUNY
Event description:
The mapping class group is the group of all homeomorphisms from a surface to itself, up to isotopy. We will show that a random walk gives a pseudo-Anosov element with asymptotic probability one, using the action of the mapping class group on the complex of curves.
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