UW Rainwater Seminar
Autumn 2010



Speaker: Anthony Quas, University of Victoria

Title: Uniform distribution, piecewise isometries and 3log(2)-pi^2/8.

Date: November 9 at 2:30

Location: UW Padelford C-401

Abstract:

We study a simple family of piecewise isometries of the plane, in which one observes large numbers of periodic orbits, each shadowed by a `periodic island'. We use techniques from uniform distribution to study the (measure) density of the periodic islands in the plane. A number of open problems will be mentioned.