Research publications and preprints
Holomorphic curves in the 6-pseudosphere and cyclic surfaces with Jérémy Toulisse. Accepted for publication in Transactions of the AMS. arXiv
A general Cayley correspondence and higher Teichmüller spaces with Steve Bradlow, Oscar Garcia-Prada, Peter Gothen and André Oliveira, to appear in Annals of Mathematics Nov. 2024 vol 200 #3. arXiv
Arakelov-Milnor inequalities and maximal variations of Hodge structure with Olivier Biquard, Oscar Garcia-Prada and Domingo Toledo. Compositio Mathematica, 159(5) May 2023, 1005-1041. arXiv
(G,P)-opers and global Slodowy slices with Andrew Sanders, Advances in Mathematics, Volume 377, 22 January 2021. arXiv
Conformal limits and the Białynicki-Birula stratification of the space of λ-connections with Richard Wentworth. Advances in Mathematics, Volume 350, 9 July 2019, Pages 1193-1225. arXiv
Studying Deformations of Fuchsian Representations with Higgs Bundles, SIGMA 15 (2019), 010, 32 pages (Special Issue on Geometry and Physics of Hitchin Systems). Survey article roughly based on Summer 2018 mini-course given at UIC. arXiv
SO(p,q)-Higgs bundles and higher Teichmüller components with Marta Aparicio-Arroyo, Steve Bradlow, Oscar Garcia-Prada, Peter Gothen and André Oliveira. Inventiones Mathematicae 218 (2019) 197–299. arXiv
Exotic components of SO(p,q) surface group representations, and their Higgs bundle avatars with Marta Aparicio-Arroyo, Steve Bradlow, Oscar Garcia-Prada, Peter Gothen and André Oliveira. Comptes Rendus Mathematique Volume 356, Issue 6, June 2018, Pages 666-673. arXiv
SO(n,n+1)-surface group representations and their Higgs bundles. Annales scientifiques de l'ENS volume 53, issue 6 (2020) 1561-1616. arXiv
The geometry of maximal components of the PSp(4,R) character variety with Daniele Alessandrini. Geometry & Topology 23 (2019) 1251–1337. arXiv
Various generalizations and deformations of PSL(2,R) surface group representations and their Higgs bundles. Geometry and Physics: a Festschrift in honour of Nigel Hitchin, Oxford Press October 25, 2018.
The geometry of maximal representations of surface groups into SO(2,n) with Nicolas Tholozan and Jérémy Toulisse. Duke Math Journal, Volume 168, Number 15 (2019), 2873-2949. arXiv
Finite order automorphism of Higgs bundles: theory and application (Ph.D. thesis)
Parallel transport on principal bundles over stacks with Eugene Lerman and Seth Wolbert. Journal of Geometry and Physics Volume 107, September 2016, pp 187-213. arXiv
Maximal Sp(4,R) surface group representations, minimal surfaces and cyclic surfaces. Geometriae Dedicata 180 (2015), no. 1, 241–285. arXiv
Asymptotics of Higgs bundles in the Hitchin component with Qiongling Li. Advances in Mathematics, Volume 307, 5 February 2017, Pages 488–558. arXiv
A Symplectic Proof of a Theorem of Franks with Ely Kerman, Ben Reiniger, Bolor Turmunkh and Andrew Zimmer, Compositio Mathematica, Volume 148, Issue 06, November 2012, pp 1069–1084. arXiv
Some Videos of Talks
Talk at 50 years of Nigel Hitchin's Mathematics, December 13, 2023.
Talk at Moduli spaces and geometric structures Conference in honour of Oscar García-Prada on the occasion of his 60th birthday, September 14, 2022 Talk on conformal limits for parabolic Higgs bundles (not Holomorphic curves and G2 Higgs bundles)
Talk at Banff International Research Station at Casa Matemática Oaxaca Mexico, July 5, 2018.
Talk at the GEAR Retreat at University of Stanford, August 12, 2017.
Talk in Geometry, Groups, and Dynamics/GEAR seminar May 4, 2016
Talk in Geometry, Groups, and Dynamics/GEAR seminar February 17, 2015
Some up coming travel/talks:
XXIV International Symposium of Mathematical Methods Applied to Sciences, Liberia Costa Rica February 2024.
Advances in Higgs bundles workshop at Brin Mathematics Research Center, April 2024.
Higher rank geometric structures program, Institute Henri Poincaré, Paris, April 14 - July 14, 2025.
My research is supported by the NSF DMS grant 2103685
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Some pictures of ``upper triangular matrices" in exceptional Lie algebras
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