Building Research Interconnections in Dynamics and Geometry

BRIDGe 2026  

July 13-17 

Confirmed Speakers

• Carolyn Abbott

• Dick Canary

• Emily Dumas

• James Farre

• Simion Filip

• Sebastian Hurtado-Salazar

• Chris Leininger

• Nathaniel Sagman

• Richard Wentworth

Participants

• Francisco Arana-Herrera 

• Harry Bray

• Corey Bregman

• Aaron Calderon

• Brian Collier (organizer)

• Michelle Chu

• Jeff Danciger (organizer)

• Beibei Liu

• Sara Maloni (organizer)

• Giuseppe Martone

• Filippo Mazzoli

• Yair Minsky

• Alex Nolte

• Kasra Rafi

• Charles Ried

• Peter Smillie

• Tina Torkaman

• Wouter Van Limbeek

• Teddy Weisman

• Brandis Whitfield

• Mike Wolf

Titles and Abstracts:

• Speaker: Richard Wentworth

Title: Higgs bundles, isomonodromy and minimal surfaces

Abstract: In a joint work with Brian Collier and Jeremy Toulisse, we construct a joint moduli space of Higgs bundles, where the Riemann surface structure is allowed to vary in the Teichmüller space of the underlying smooth surface. The nonabelian Hodge correspondence defines a foliation on this joint moduli space whose holonomy recovers the natural mapping class group action on the character variety. This formalism allows one to address issues of special surface group representations that have an algebraic origin. It also has some strong implications for spaces of equivariant minimal surfaces.