String Theory Journal Club

We review the famous paper by Maryam Mirzakhani: "Simple geodesics and Weil-Petersson volumes of moduli spaces of bordered Riemann surfaces", Invent. Math., 167(1):179– 222, 2007. In the first part, we introduce all necessary ingredients: moduli space of Riemann surfaces, Teichmuller space, mapping class group, pairs of pants and then move to McShane identity for length of simple closed geodesics. Link: meet.google.com/gbj-tmns-err