Peter Hilton Memorial Lecture - 2016
Amie Wilkinson
Speaker:
Title: Geometry, Lyapunov exponents and rigidity
Time: Thursday April 28, 2016, 3:00 p.m. Location: ÂÌñÉç, Fine Arts Building, Room 258
The lecture will be followed by a reception at 4.30 p.m. in The President's Reception
Room, Anderson Performing Arts Center, ÂÌñÉç. This reception is for
the whole ÂÌñÉç Mathematics Community as well as for our visitors.
Abstract:
To each complete Riemannian manifold MM is associated a dynamical system – the geodesic
flow on the unit tangent bundle SMSM. To what extent are the dynamical properties
of this flow wedded to the geometry of MM? I will discuss some historical highlights,
open questions and recent breakthroughs.
