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  Department of Mathematics
  University of Chicago
  5734 University Avenue
  Chicago, IL 60637
  USA
  
  
• Office: Eckhart Hall 411
  
• E-mail: jonchaika at math dot uchicago dot edu
  
• Phone: (773) 702-7394 (Office)
  
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  My papers on the arxiv

  Papers

  Every transformation is disjoint from almost every IET (accepted Annals of Mathematics)
  Shrinking targets for IETs (accepted Geometric and Functional Analysis)
  There exists a topologically mixing IET (accepted Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems)
  Schrödinger operators defined by interval exchange transformations (with D. Damanik and H. Krüger) (Journal of Modern Dynamics April 2009)
  Hausdorff dimension for ergodic measures of interval exchange transformations (Journal of Modern Dynamics July 2008)
  Borel-Cantelli Sequences (with M. Boshernitzan) (accepted Journal d'Analyse Mathematique)
  The distribution of gaps for saddle connection directions (with J. Athreya) (in revision)
  Diophantine properties of IETs and general systems: Quantitative proximality and connectivity (with M. Boshernitzan) (submitted)
  Skew products over rotations with exotic properties (submitted)
  Winning games for bounded geodesics in Teichmueller discs (with Y. Cheung and H. Masur) (submitted)
  Omega recurrence in cocycles (with D. Ralston) (submitted)
  Every transformation is disjoint from almost every non-classical exchange (with V. Gadre)
  On the Hausdorff dimensions of a singular ergodic measure for some minimal interval exchange transformations
  The densest sequence in the unit circle (with M. Boshernitzan)
  On the Frequency of Balanced Times in Cylinder Flows (with D. Ralston)
  [0,1] is not a Minimality Detector for [0,1]^2
  Quantitative shrinking targets for rotations, IETs and billiards in rational polygons (with D. Constantine)
  
  

  Seminars:

  Dynamics
  Geometry/Topology
  
  

  Teaching this quarter

  Math 203