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The correspondence between bounded orbits in the space of lattices in \(\mathbb{R}^n\) and badly approximable systems of linear forms established by S. G. Dani led G. A. Margulis to make the following conjecture. Let \(G\) be a connected semisimple Lie group without compact factors, \(\Gamma\) an irreducible lattice in \(G\) and \(F\) a one-parameter nonquasiunipotent subgroup of \(G\). Then the set of \(x\) in \(C/\Gamma\) for which \(Fx\) is bounded is thick in \(G/F\) (i.e., the Hausdorff dimension of the set is maximal at any point in \(G/F)\). This was proved by \textit{G. A. Margulis} and the author [Bounded orbits of nonquasiunipotent flows and applications to Diophantine approximation, Am. Math. Soc. Transl., Ser. 2, 171, 141-172 (1996; Zbl 0843.22027)]. As an application, the author proves W. M. Schmidt's result that the set of badly approximable linear forms is thick. These novel ideas from dynamical systems have been used very effectively in the metrical theory of Diophantine approximation by the author and \textit{G. A. Margulis} [ Ann. Math. (2) 148, 339-360 (1998; Zbl 0922.11061)]. Using these methods, the author has also obtained an inhomogeneous version of Schmidt's result [J. Number Theory 79, 83-102 (1999)]. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0927.00025].