Next Journal Club on Maryam Mirzakhani

The Journal Club will meet on Thursday, 17^th August, 12-1pm in the XY-Café. We will discuss the life and work of Maryam Mirzakhani, the first woman to win the fields medal in 2014.

“Maryam Mirzakhani has made striking and highly original contributions to geometry and dynamical systems. Her work on Riemann surfaces and their moduli spaces bridges several mathematical disciplines—hyperbolic geometry, complex analysis, topology, and dynamics—and influences them all in return. She gained widespread recognition for her early results in hyperbolic geometry, and her most recent work constitutes a major advance in dynamical systems.”

http://mathunion.org/fileadmin/IMU/Prizes/2014/news_release_mirzakhani.pdf

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/aug/13/interview-maryam-mirzakhani-fields-medal-winner-mathematician

Great visualisation of hyperbolic planes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-AHvZqbMT4&feature=youtu.be