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John Franks

John Franks
Chair of the Mathematics Department
Professor of Mathematics
PhD, University of California, Berkeley

Office: Lunt B18
Phone: (847) 491-5548
Email: j-franksat Math Northwestern (edu)

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Research Area: Dynamical Systems and Ergodic Theory - Franks's recent topological work has focused on actions of groups on surfaces -- in particular lattice actions which leave invariant a Borel probability measure on the surface.