Symmetries of flat surfaces of infinite type

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Chandrika Sadanand, Bowdoin College

Flat surfaces have two types of symmetries: isometries and affine symmetries. In this talk, we ask 鈥渨hat groups of symmetries are realized by flat structures on a fixed topological surface of infinite type?鈥 Joint with Artigiani, Randecker, Valdez and Weizte-Schmith眉sen, we approach these problems using ideas of Aougab, Patel and Vlamis. We culminate with a complete answer to this question for isometries and some encouraging results for affine symmetries.