In this course we give a proof of a central result in the theory of translation surfaces known as $Masur's$ $criterion$. The aim is to introduce the audience to the subject and illustrate how one can understand ergodic properties of the geodesic flow on an individual translation surface by studying the behaviour of its $SL(2,\mathbb{R})$-orbit on moduli space. The course is divided in 4 parts. Exercise sessions (TP) are also planned.

- Basic notions about translation surfaces.
- Moduli spaces of translation surfaces.
- Dynamical aspects of translation flows.
- Proof of Masur's criterion.[-]

In this course we give a proof of a central result in the theory of translation surfaces known as $Masur's$ $criterion$. The aim is to introduce the audience to the subject and illustrate how one can understand ergodic properties of the geodesic flow on an individual translation surface by studying the behaviour of its $SL(2,\mathbb{R})$-orbit on moduli space. The course is divided in 4 parts. Exercise sessions (TP) are also planned.

- Basic notions about translation surfaces.
- Moduli spaces of translation surfaces.
- Dynamical aspects of translation flows.
- Proof of Masur's criterion.[-]

In complex dynamics it is usually important to understand the dynamical behavior of critical (or singular) orbits. For quadratic polynomials, this leads to the study of the Mandelbrot set and of its complement. In our talk we present a classification of some explicit families of the transcendental entire functions for which all singular values escape, i.e. functions belonging to the complement of the 'transcendental analogue' of the Mandelbrot set. This classification allows us to introduce higher dimensional analogues of parameter rays and to explore their properties. A key ingredient is a generalization of the famous Thurston's Topological Characterization of Rational Functions, but for the case of infinite rather than finite postsingular set. Analogously to Thurston's theorem, we consider the sigma-iteration on the Teichmüller space and investigate its convergence. Unlike the classical case, the underlying Teichmüller space is infinite-dimensional which leads to a completely different theory.[-]

In this course we give a proof of a central result in the theory of translation surfaces known as $Masur's$ $criterion$. The aim is to introduce the audience to the subject and illustrate how one can understand ergodic properties of the geodesic flow on an individual translation surface by studying the behaviour of its $SL(2,\mathbb{R})$-orbit on moduli space. The course is divided in 4 parts. Exercise sessions (TP) are also planned.

- Basic notions about translation surfaces.
- Moduli spaces of translation surfaces.
- Dynamical aspects of translation flows.
- Proof of Masur's criterion.[-]