Joint IAS/PU Groups and Dynamics Seminar

In this talk we will discuss some aspects of the question: given a group, what is the range of Furstenberg entropy of ergodic stationary actions of it? For the special linear group and its lattices, constraints on this spectrum come from Nevo-Zimmer...

Teichmuller dynamics give us a nonhomogeneous example of an action of SL_2(R) on a space H_g preserving a finite measure. This space is related to the moduli space of genus g curves. The SL_2(R) action on H_g has a complicated behavior: McMullen...

For every surface S, the pure mapping class group G_S acts on the (SL_2)-character variety Ch_S of a fundamental group P of S. The character variety Ch_S is a scheme over the ring of integers. Classically this action on the real points Ch_S(R) of...

The Arithmetic Quantum Unique Ergodicity (AQUE) conjecture predicts that the L2 mass of Hecke-Maass cusp forms on an arithmetic hyperbolic manifold becomes equidistributed as the Laplace eigenvalue grows. If the underlying manifold is non-compact...