Geometry and dynamics of free group automorphisms

Series
Geometry Topology Seminar
Time
Monday, January 29, 2018 - 2:00pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 006
Speaker
Caglar Uyanik – Vanderbilt University
Organizer
Dan Margalit
I will talk about the long standing analogy between the mapping class group of a hyperbolic surface and the outer automorphism group of a free group. Particular emphasis will be on the dynamics of individual elements and applications of these results to structure theorems for subgroups of these groups.