Logarithm laws and diophantine approximation

Seminar: 
Group Actions and Dynamics
Event time: 
Monday, October 19, 2009 - 12:30pm to 1:30pm
Location: 
431 DL
Speaker: 
Jayadev S. Athreya
Speaker affiliation: 
Yale
Event description: 

We describe joint work with G. Margulis in which we relate properties of horocycle flow on the modular surface to diophantine approximation.