The idea of using homogeneous dynamics to Diophantine approximation has grown to an active subfield of mathematics, with numerous results on Hausdorff dimension of sets of vectors with certain Diophantine properties. In this talk, we will start from scratch, from the Gauss map of the usual continued fraction expansion for real numbers and give a "dynamical interpretation" of Diophantine properties of continued fractions in terms of the orbits of the geodesic flow on the hyperbolic plane. We will then present a series of results of the speaker with coauthors on inhomogeneous Diophantine approximation and give ideas of proofs, especially the idea related to the partial proof of Littlewood conjecture of Einsiedler-Katok-Lindenstrauss. (The latter part of the talk is based on joint works with U. Shapira-N. de Saxce, Y. Bugeaud-Donghan Kim-M. Rams, and Wooyeon Kim-Taehyung Kim.)
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