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John Smillie (Warwick University) «Billiards in polygons»
by Egor Pifagorov - Wednesday, 3 April 2019, 05:39 PM
 
СОВМЕСТНЫЙ КОЛЛОКВИУМ
лаборатории «Современная алгебра и приложения»
и лаборатории им. Чебышева

18 апреля, 17.15, аудитория 105 (14) , 14-я линия В. О., 29


John Smillie (Warwick University)

«Billiards in polygons»


It is a tradition in the field of dynamical systems to illustrate ideas by applying them to the question of dynamics of billiard orbits in planar billiard tables. In this talk I will show how methods inspired by renormalisation can be used to analyse billiard orbits in polygonal tables. I will consider some simple examples in detail and then suggest how some of the relevant ideas are being used in the field of Teichmüller dynamics.