The Schreier continuum and ends

Abstract: Intuitively, an end of a leaf in a minimal set of a foliation is a  'distinct way to go to infinity'. Analysis of end spaces of leaves  provides information about the asymptotic behavior of leaves in the  minimal set. Although the notion of an end is rather simple, it is  not always easy to compute the number of ends of leaves in actual  examples of minimal sets. In the talk I will introduce a notion of  the Schreier continuum, which gives a way to compute end structures  of leaves within the minimal set of a certain class of foliations  geometrically, and give examples of computations with Schreier  continua.