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Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics

The Weil-Petersson model is a beautiful probabilistic model allowing to study random hyperbolic surfaces, which was first popularised by Mirzakhani and is now at the center of a very active field of study. I will gently introduce this model, and present techniques that can be used to count closed geodesics on these random hyperbolic surfaces. Notably, I will present joint work with Nalini Anantharaman allowing to count non-simple closed geodesics, including new coordinates on Teichmüller space.

Further information

Time:

11May
May 11th 2026
14:00 to 15:00

Speaker:

Laura Monk (University of Bristol)

Series:

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series