I help organising the USC seminar with Andrew Manion and Aaron Mezel-Gee. If you would like to give a talk, please reach out!
I am also organising a USC-Caltech reading seminar on curve counting. We meet every Tuesday at Caltech. If you would like to come let me know.
The, tentative, schedule so far is:
Oct 1 – Tom – Intro part one
Oct 8 – Tom – Intro part two
Oct 15 – Jihoon Sohn- Geodesic Currents;
Oct 22 – Lei Chen – Mirzakhani’s simple closed curve asymptotics;
Oct 29 – Nathaniel l. Sagman- McShane’s Identity ;
Nov 5 – Francis Bonahon – Thurston Measure ;
Nov 12 –
Nov 19 – No Seminar
Nov 26 – No Seminar;
Dec 3 – Peter Smillie –
Dec 10 –
I am trying to keep some notes (still WIP and prolly riddled with typos/imprecisions). They will be here at some point.
Reading list:
- Viveka and Juan (2015): https://arxiv.org/pdf/1508.02265.pdf;
- Viveka (2016): https://arxiv.org/pdf/1608.07436.pdf;
- Viveka and Caglar (2018): https://arxiv.org/pdf/1803.10801.pdf;
- Viveka, Hugo and Juan (2016): https://arxiv.org/pdf/1612.05980.pdf;
- Juan and Rafi (2019): https://arxiv.org/pdf/1709.06834.pdf;
- Viveka, Juan overview (2019): https://arxiv.org/pdf/1904.05091.pdf;
- Viveka and Zakeri: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1304.5316.pdf.
