Conference on
Rational Billiards and Flows on Moduli Spaces
University of Illinois at Chicago
June 3-5, 2005
Supported by a focused research grant from
National Science Foundation
Directions to Conference
Conference will be held in Room 605 of
Student Center East, 750 S Halsted
located between Taylor and Harrison on the
East side of campus. Click the following link for
campus map and directions to UIC.
Probably the easiest way to get to UIC from Chicago's
two major airports is to take the CTA: BLUE LINE if you
are coming from O'Hare (following the "trains to city"
signs in the Terminal) and ORANGE LINE from Midway.
In both cases, the fare is $1.75; you do not need to
get a transfer. Taxi is about $25.00 from Midway.
Lodging and Dining
Contact Info for some nearby Hotels:
Holiday Inn and Suites
506 W. Harrison (10 minute walk from UIC)
312 957-9100 (corrected)
Congress Plaza Hotel
520 S. Michigan
312 427-3800
Days Inn Lincoln Park
644 W. Diversey (less expensive)
773 525-7010
Days Inn Gold Coast
1816 N. Clark (less expensive)
312 664-3040
Dining:
There are numerous Greek restaurants on Halsted just
North of campus such as Greek Islands,
and Parthenon.
Just west and south of campus on Taylor street there
are numerous restaurants. Among the better ones are
Tuscany 1014 W. Taylor (nice Italian
restaurant), and Chez Joel
1119 W. Taylor (French Bistro).
Some recommended restaurants in Downtown (walking distance)
include Birghoff 17 W Adams
(classic Chicago German restaurant), and
Tratorria 1010 N. Dearborn
(very good Italian restaurant).
There are also many good restaurants on the North Side
of Chicago (Michigan avenue area).
Schedule of Talks
Thursday, June 2
10:00 AM (in SEO 636) A. Eskin
A slow introduction to the proof of Ratner's Theorem I
1:00 PM (in SEO 636) A. Eskin
A slow introduction to the proof of Ratner's Theorem II
All other talks will be in Room 605 of
Student Center East on 750 S Halsted
Friday, June 3
9:30 J. Smillie A characterisation of Veech examples
10:20-11:00 Coffee break
11:00 M. Moeller Periodic points on Veech surfaces
12:00-2:00 Lunch
2:00 C. McMullen Billiards of Genus Two
3:00 S. Lelievre Square-tiled surfaces in genus two
3:50-4:30 Coffee break
4:30 E. Lanneau Teichmueller discs with no cusps
Saturday, June 4
9:30 A. Bufetov
Decay of correlations for the Rauzy-Veech-Zorich induction map
and the Central Limit Theorem for the Teichmueller geodesic flow
10:20-11:00 Coffee break
11:00 B. Weiss
Mahler's question for interval exchange transformations
12:00-2:00 Lunch
2:00 M. Mirzakhani Equidistribution results on moduli spaces
3:00 Y. Cheung Slow divergence and unique ergodicity in genus 2
3:50-4:30 Coffee break
4:30 M. Schmoll Modular fibers
Sunday, June 5
9:00 R. Schwartz Obtuse triangular billiards
10:00 C. Leininger Graphs of Veech groups
10:50-11:15 Coffee break
11:15 P. Hubert Illumination in Veech surfaces
A limited amount of support will be available to graduate students.
Contact the organizers at the email address below.
For more information contact the organisers at
billiards@math.uic.edu
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