Each talk will be a three-hour block that includes a half-hour break. Speakers are matched with "collaborators" who they can discuss the topic of their talk with in their preparation. Talk topics with summaries are here. The schedule is:
Monday:
David Chasteen-Boyd, PSL(2,R) character varieties of surface groups (collaborator: Romeo Troubat)
Zach Virgillio, Atiyah-Bott-Goldman's symplectic form and ergodicity of the Mod(S) action on the SU(2) character variety (collaborator: Nicholas Rungi)
Tuesday:
Alex Moriani, Introduction to Higgs bundles and non-Abelian Hodge theory and Hitchin's PSL(n,R) component count (collaborator: Rym Smai)
Xenia Flamm, Morse theoretic methods and component counts for compact and complex groups (collaborator: Enrico Trebeschi)
Wednesday:
Samuel Bronstein, Relative character varieties and Deroin-Tholozan representations (collaborator: Arnaud Maret)
Free afternoon
Thursday:
Jacques Audibert, Maximal representations in Hermitian groups (collaborator: Clarence Kineider)
Colin Davalo, Collier's work in SO(n,n+1) (collaborator: Blandine Galiay)
Friday:
Enya Hsiao, Magical triples in SO(p,q) (collaborator: Nathaniel Sagman)
Merik Niemeyer, Theta-positivity in SO(p,q) (collaborator: Laura Lankers)