The large-scale geometry of a finitely generated group has been well-studied in geometric group theory.
But, a big mapping class group, although Polish, is not finitely generated.
Christian Rosendal proposed a framework for the large-scale geometry of Polish groups called coarse geometry, see
[Ros14].
In recent times, Kathryn Mann and Kasra Rafi studied the large-scale geometry of big mapping class groups using the framework of Rosendal, see
[MR20].
We will discuss their papers in this series of talks.
References:
Coarse geometry, Švarc-Milnor lemma, Non-displaceable subsurface, Self-similar end space