- Series
- Geometry Topology Seminar
- Time
- Monday, October 31, 2011 - 2:30pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
- Location
- UGA Boyd 302
- Speaker
- Dan Margalit – Ga Tech
- Organizer
- John Etnyre
Please Note: Note that this talk is on the UGA campus.
To every homeomorphism of a surface, we can attach a positive real number, the entropy. We are interested in the question of what these homeomorphisms look like when the entropy is positive, but small. We give several perspectives on this problem, considering it from the complex analytic, surface topological, 3-manifold theoretical, and numerical points of view. This is joint work with Benson Farb and Chris Leininger.