M732 homeomorphisms of surfaces and geometry

• syllabus
• references:
  • Geometry and dynamics of diffeomeorphisms
    William P. Thurston
  • A primer on mapping class groups
    Benson Farb and Dan Margalit
  • Travaux des thurston sur les surfaces
    ed. Fathi, Laudenbach and Poenaru
    Astérisque No. 66-67 (1991).
    Société Mathématique de France, Paris, 1991
    partial translation
  • On groups generated by two positive multi-twists
    Chris Leininger

  • Construction de difféomorphismes pseudo-Anosov.
    Arnoux, Pierre; Yoccoz, Jean-Christophe
    C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris Sér. I Math. Volume 292 (1981), no. 1, 75--78.

  • The geometry of Teichmüller space via geodesic currents
    Bonahon, Francis
    Inventiones Mathematicae, Volume 92, Number 1 (1988) 139-162