Tali Pinsky

A closed geodesic on a surface can also be viewed as a closed orbit of the geodesic flow on the unit tangent bundle of the surface. In this talk I will discuss the main tool for studying the knot-properties of closed orbits of (three dimensional)...

Given a hyperbolic surface S, consider any closed geodesic gamma on S. gamma is naturally embedded as a knot in the unit tangent bundle of S, and the complement of gamma is almost always a hyperbolic three manifold and thus has an intrinsic volume...