We consider "higher dimensional Teichmüller discs", by which we mean complex submanifolds of Teichmüller space that contain the Teichmüller disc joining any two of its points. We prove results in the higher dimensional setting that are opposite to the one dimensional behavior: every "higher dimensional Teichmüller disc" covers a "higher dimensional Teichmüller curve" and there are only finitely many "higher dimensional Teichmüller curves" in each moduli space. The proofs use recent results in Teichmüller dynamics, especially joint work with Eskin and Filip on the Kontsevich-Zorich cocycle. Joint work with McMullen and Mukamel as well as Eskin, McMullen and Mukamel shows that exotic examples of "higher dimensional Teichmüller discs" do exist.[-]

The behaviour of infinite translation surfaces is, in many regards, very different from the finite case. For example, the geodesic flow is often not recurrent or is not even defined for infinite time in a generic direction.
However, we show that if one focuses on a class of infinite translation surfaces that exclude the obvious counter-examples, one can adapted the proof of Kerckhoff, Masur, and Smillie and show that the geodesic flow is uniquely ergodic in almost every direction. We call this class of surface essentially finite.
(joint work with Anja Randecker).[-]

We prove a couple of general conditional convergence results on ergodic averages for horocycle and
geodesic subgroups of any continuous $SL(2,\mathbb{R})$- action on a locally compact space. These results are motivated by theorems of Eskin, Mirzakhani and Mohammadi on the $SL(2,\mathbb{R})$-action on the moduli space of Abelian differentials. By our argument we can derive from these theorems an improved version of the “weak convergence” of push-forwards of horocycle measures under the geodesic flow and a new short proof of a theorem of Chaika and Eskin on Birkhoff genericity in almost all directions for the Teichmüller geodesic flow.[-]

A meromorphic differential on a Riemann surface is said to be real-normalized if all its periods are real. Real-normalized differentials on Riemann surfaces of given genus with prescribed orders of their poles form real orbifolds whose topology is closely related to that of moduli spaces of Riemann surfaces with marked points. We propose a combinatorial model for the real normalized differentials with a single order 2 pole and use it to analyze certain ergodic properties of the corresponding absolute period foliation. It is a joint work with Igor Krichever and Sergey Lando.[-]