Universes of evenly curved surfaces
OPEN NEIGHBORHOOD
Speaker:
Alex Wright - Michigan
We will begin by discussing hyperbolic geometry, and how it can be used to build "evenly curved" metrics on a donut with one point removed. We will then discuss Maryam Mirzakhani's computation of the "size" of the universe of all such metrics (the Weil-Petersson volume of the moduli space of complete hyperbolic metrics on a punctured torus)
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