GEometric structures And Representation varieties
Abstract: The first Junior Retreat for the GEAR Network will be held July 23 -- August 3, 2012 at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. The Retreat 2012 will immediately follow the Junior Retreat. The purpose of these retreats is to build bridges between the different interest groups in the network -- and more broadly among mathematicians working in areas relating to GEometric structures And Representation varieties. The Junior Retreat is designed for graduate students and postdocs and has the primary objective of preparing participants to take full advantage of the Retreat 2012. As such, the Junior retreat will focus on providing an introduction to the following five areas: Higgs Bundles; Geometric Structures and Teichmüller Spaces; Dynamics on Moduli Spaces; Special Representations; and Hyperbolic 3-manifolds The Junior Retreat will feature one or two mini-courses on each of these themes; the mini-courses will be supplemented by problem sessions and time for discussion. In addition, there will be shorter research talks given by participants. Read more at http://gear.math.illinois.edu/programs/JuniorRetreat2012.html |
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