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Title: Braid Forcing and Hyperbolic Geometry
Speaker: Professor Rupert Venzke
Speaker Info: Northwestern
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We study a partial order on pseudo-Anosov surface automorphisms called the "forcing order". Entropy decreases relative to this order and we investigate the relation between entropy and volumes of hyperbolic mapping tori. In connection with this, dynamics of the Horseshoe map is considered also.