Lecture
This lecture covers the thermodynamic formalism for dispersing billiards, focusing on the measure of maximal entropy and the definition of topological entropy for billiards. It discusses the billiard map, transfer operator, topological entropy results, weight function for topological entropy, dynamical refinements of partitions, and fragmentation lemmas. The lecture also explores the connection to Bowen definitions, uniform bounds on growth, and the uniform growth of stable curves.