Geometries Conference
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Geometries, Surfaces and Representations of Fundamental Groups

Wednesday June 22 -- Friday June 24, 2016

This is the first announcement of the conference "Geometries, surfaces and representations of fundamental groups" to be held Wednesday June 22 to Friday June 24, 2016 at the University of Maryland, College Park. This conference will be in honor of the 60th birthday of Bill Goldman.

Some financial support may be available for travel and local expenses. Graduate students, recent Ph.D.s, and underrepresented groups are especially encouraged to apply. Preference for financial support will go to those registered by May 1.

Support for this conference comes from the National Science Foundation and the Department of Mathematics at the University of Maryland.

Conference poster designed by Evan Goldman.

All talks are in Resnick Hall, Room 1202, Glenn L. Martin Engineering building

WEDNESDAY JUNE 22

8:30-10:00am Breakfast and Registration
10:00-11:00am NIGEL HITCHIN - "Generalizations of Teichmüller space" - Watch Video
11:00-11:30am Coffee break
11:30-12:30pm ANNA WIENHARD - "Maximal representations, deformation spaces, and geometric structures." - Watch Video
12:30-2:30pm Lunch break
2:30-3:30pm JEFFREY DANCIGER - "Proper affine actions of right angled Coxeter groups" - Watch Video
3:30-4:00pm tea and refreshments
4:00-5:00pm MISHA KAPOVICH - "Is discreteness decidable?" - Watch Video
5:30-7:30pm Reception in front of Kirwan Hall Mathematics building (Mathematics Rotunda if inclement weather)

THURSDAY JUNE 23

8:00-8:45am Breakfast and Registration
8:45-9:45am MORRIS HIRSCH - "Common zeroes of vector fields of Lie algebras on low dimensional real and complex manifolds" - Watch Video
9:45-10:00am Short break
10:00-11:00am LISA JEFFREY - "The genus 2 representation space" - Watch Video
11:00-11:30am Coffee break
11:30-12:30pm FRANCOIS LABOURIE - "Towards higher laminations: tropical cross ratios and the universal surface group representation" - Watch Video
12:30-2:30pm Lunch break
2:30-3:30pm SER PEOW TAN - "Polynomial automorphisms of C^n preserving the Markoff-Hurwitz polynomial" - Watch Video
3:30-4:00pm Tea and refreshments
4:00-5:00pm FANNY KASSEL - "Convex cocompact actions in pseudo-Riemannian hyperbolic geometry"
7:00-10:00pm Conference banquet - Direction to Riggs Alumni Center

FRIDAY JUNE 24

8:00-8:45am Breakfast and Registration
8:45-9:45am YVES BENOIST - "Harmonic quasiisometric maps between rank one symmetric spaces" - Watch Video
9:45-10:00am Short break
10:00-11:00am KARIN MELNICK - "Limits of local automorphisms of geometric structures"
11:00-11:30am Coffee break
11:30-12:30pm SEAN LAWTON - "The Betti Moduli Space: Experiments and Visualizations" - Watch Video
12:30-2:30pm Lunch break
2:30-3:30pm JOHN PARKER - "A complex hyperbolic Riley slice" - Watch Video
3:30-4:00pm Tea and refreshments
4:00-5:00pm RICHARD SCHWARTZ - "The projective midpoint map" - Watch Video

CLARION
NAME: GEOMETRIES conference (This is the code guests will check-in under)
Rate: $85+tax
Cut-off date: 3 weeks before conference

BEST WESTERN
NAME: GEOMETRIES conference (This is the code guests will check-in under)
Rate: $132+tax
Cut off date: 3 weeks before conference

COLLEGE PARK HOTEL AND SUITES
NAME: GEOMETRIES conference (This is the code guests will check-in under)
Rate: $99+tax
Cut off Date: Jun 1st

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Wire Transfer Form - Those who reside outside the U.S. may want a wire transfer of their reimbursement. When filling out the form, please pay particular attention to how your name appears on the bank account, the complete bank address, the Bank ABA, SWIFT code and account number. The form should be legible so that the Wire Transfer person can easily read it.