Lecture 1. Random hyperbolic surfaces (Riemann surfaces seen without glasses). Translation surfaces.
Lecture 2. Translation surfaces and Abelian differentials. Masur-Veech measure. Magic Wand Theorem. Geodesics and horocycles on modular surface
Lecture 3. Teichmüller Theorem. Square-tiled surfaces. Count of Masur-Veech volume through separatrix diagrams
Homework assignment 1
Lecture 4. Count of flat closed geodesics and of saddle connections. Siegel-Veech formula
Lecture 5. Solution of the problems from the homework assignment
Lecture 6. Mirzakhani's count of simple closed geodesics
Lecture 7. Train tracks. Measured laminations. Proof of Mirzakhani's count
Homework assignment 2
Lecture 8. Count of square-tiled surfaces and of simple closed hyperbolic geodesics after joint works with V.Delecroix, E.Goujard and P.Zograf
Lecture 9. Idea of renormalization. Windtree model. Lyapunov exponents
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