Reading group on character varieties

With Tobias Weich and Benjamin Delarue, we are organizing a reading group on character varieties. This reading group is joined between Paderborn Universität and the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics of Leipzig. This has been going on since October 2025. We meet online every Thursdays at 10:45.

Previous talks (you can find notes here):

• Representation variety (me)

• Character variety (Benjamin)

• Character variety of surface groups (me)

• Schottky surfaces (Tobias)

• Morgan-Shalen compactification (Carsten and me)

• Asymptotic cones (Xenia)

• Real Spectrum compactification (Xenia and me)

Talks to come:

• Real Spectrum compactification (Xenia and me)

• Quasi-fuchsian representations