RIT on Higgs Bundles Archives for Fall 2018 to Spring 2019

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Organizational meeting -- introduction to Opers

When: Fri, September 8, 2017 - 2:00pm
Where: Kirwan Hall 1313
Speaker: Andy Sanders (Heidelberg) -

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Degeneration of abelian differentials and period matrices

When: Fri, September 15, 2017 - 2:00pm
Where: Kirwan Hall 1313
Speaker: Xuntao Hu (SUNY StonyBrook) -
Abstract: The plumbing parameters gives local coordinates near the
boundary of the Delign-Mumford compactification of the moduli spaces of
Riemann surfaces. In this talk we introduce a new method to construct
smooth abelian differentials on Riemann surfaces near an arbitrary
degenerated Riemann surface, in terms of the plumbing parameters. This
method further allows us to compute the degeneration of the period
matrices, generalizing results of Yamada and Taniguchi.

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Another introduction to opers and differential equations

When: Fri, September 22, 2017 - 2:00pm
Where: Kirwan Hall 1313
Speaker: Richard Wentworth (UMCP) -

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Simpson's "iterated destabilizing modifications" paper

When: Fri, September 29, 2017 - 2:00pm
Where: Kirwan Hall 1313
Speaker: TBA () -

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