Recent lectures and conferences
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2019
- Invited Speaker, ``A conference in honour of Alessandra Iozzi",
Zurich, January
- Organizing Committee and Keynote Speaker,
Conference honoring Yves Benoist, Cetraro, Italy, May
2018
- Invited Speaker, "Characters in low-dimensional topology ---
A conference in honour of Steven Boyer", Montreal, June 4-6
- Invited Speaker, "Representation Varieties and geometric structures
in low dimensions", University of Warwick, July 2-8
- Invited Speaker, "Geodesics on hyperbolic manifolds and related
topics," honoring Ara Basmajian,
Connecticut College, August 8-10
- Invited Speaker, Oberwolfach, September
- Invited Speaker, "Geometric Analysis", Rice University,
September
- Geeomtry Seminar, IHES, December
- Geeomtry Seminar, University of Paris, December
2017
- Colloquium, Cal Tech, February 14
- Geometry-Topology Seminar, Temple University, March 1
- "Geometry and Physics of Augmented Bundles",
honoring Steve Bradlow,
University of Illinois, May 5-7
- Topology Seminar, Oxford University, June 12
- Invited Speaker, "Nonpositive curvature group actions and cohomology,"
Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge, June 23
- Colloquium, University of Durham, June 29
- GEAR Retreat, August 7-11, Stanford University
- Geometry Labs United Meeting, August 12-14
- Invited Speaker, "Monopoles, Gauge theory and Integrable Systems,"
a conference in honor of Jacques Hurtubise, Centre de Recherches Mathematiques, Montreal, August 21-25
- Geometry Seminar, Brown University, September 13
- Dynamics Seminar, University of Chicago, September 25
2016
- Workshop on Quadratic Differentials,
African Institute for Mathematical Sciences,
Capetown, South Africa, January 4--8
- Colloquium and Seminar, Brown University, February 25
- Colloquium, National University of Singapore, March 21
- Margulis 70,
IHP, Paris, June 13-17
- Geometries, Surfaces and Representations of Fundamental Groups,
University of Maryland, June 22-24
- Hitchin 70,
Oxford University, September 9--11
- Virginia Topology Conference, Mapping Class Groups and Low Dimensional Topology,
November 18-20.
2015
- MSRI Lorentzian Geometric Structures Seminar: 9,18 February
- MSRI-Evans Colloquium: 2 March
- Colloquium, University of California, Santa Cruz: 21 April
- Bay Area Differential Geometry Seminar, University of California, Santa Cruz: 2 May
- "Geometry of moduli space for low-dimensional manifolds",
RIMS, Kyoto, Japan: 14-18 December.
- 2014
- Workshop, New Trends in Teichmuller theory and Mapping Class Groups,
Oberwolfach, 9-14 February 2014
- Colloquium, University of Pittsburgh, 28 February 2014
- Special Session "Low-dimensional Topology and Group Theory",
AMS Sectional meeting March 29-30, 2014, University of Maryland Baltimore
County.
- Minicourse Speaker,
Geometric structures and discrete groups,
2-4 May, University of Texas, Austin.
- Minicourse Speaker,
GGTM Research School, Configuration and moduli spaces in Math. and
Physics, In memory of Bill Thurston, Rabat, Morocco, 3-6 June 2014
- Minicourse Speaker, Conference Speaker,
Teichmueller theory and surfaces in 3-manifolds,
26 May-20 June 2014
Centro di Ricerca Matematica "Ennio De Giorgi", Pisa
- Colloquium, De Paul University
- GEAR Network Seminar, University of Illinois
- Colloquium, George Mason University
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Master Class,
Summer School,
Finsler Geometry with Applications,
University of the Aegean, Karlovassi, Samos, Greece, 22-30 September 2014.
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October 18-19, 2014:
Invited Address, Meeting of American Mathematical Society,
Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
- November 19, 2014:
Topology, Arithmetic, & Dynamics Seminar,
George Mason University
- 2013
- In 2013, I spoke in colloquia and seminars in Mathematics Departments
at the University of Oregon, Howard University,
Indiana University and Towson University.
Check out the YouTube video
of my Colloquium talk at Howard University.
- February 4-6:
Advances in Teichmueller Theory, Erwin Schroedinger Institute.
- March 20: I gave the
Fuzzy Vance Distinguished Visitor Lecture at Oberlin College.
Check out the
videos on YouTube, and the slides of my talk.
- April 11: I spoke at the Workshop on
Dynamics of Groups and Rational Maps,
at the Institute for Pure & Applied Mathematics, UCLA.
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June 30-July 6:
Differentialgeometrie im Grossen, Oberwolfach
See the abstract of my talk.
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September 15-20: Co-organizer,
Exotic Geometric Structures
ICERM Workshop, Brown University.
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September 26:
Research Seminar, ICERM Semester Program on ``Low-dimensional Topology,
Geometry, and Dynamics''
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Conformal Geometry and Riemann Surfaces:
A Conference in Honor of Professor Ravi S. Kulkarni,
October 25-27, 2013, Queens College
- November 15, 2013,
Geometry-Topology Seminar, University of Toronto
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Plenary speaker,
Character Varieties and Geometric Structures Workshop,
Howard University, December 16-20, 2013.
- 2012
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Inaugural Class of
Fellows of the American Mathematical Society.
- One-Hour Invited Address,
22nd Fall Workshop on Computational Geometry,
College Park (November 10)
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October 15-19,2012:
Co-organizer (and speaker), Workshop
Higher Thurston-Teichmueller theory
at the Centre de Recherches Mathematiques in Montreal.
Check out the
videos
of the lectures.
- Department Colloquium, Universit\'e de Sherbrooke,
October 12, {\em William Thurston: a Mathematical perspective}
- Department Colloquium, University of Maryland, October 10,
{\em William Thurston: a Mathematical perspective}
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August 27, 2012: Opening
lecture at the
Fourth Latin-American Congress on Lie Groups and Geometry
in Guanajuato, Mexico.
- June 18-22 2012:
Workshop on
Dynamics
of the Weil-Petersson geodesic flow,
American Institute of Mathematics, Palo Alto
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May 2012:
``Geometric and Analytic Aspects of Group Theory'' at
Institut Mittag-Leffler
in Djursholm, Sweden.
(Seminar, May 22, 2012)
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April 2012, Research Programme on Geometry and Quantization of Moduli Spaces at
, (3-lecture Master Class April 10,11,12),
Centre de Recerca Matematica, Bellaterra, Spain.
- Seminar, University of Paris-Sud, Orsay, March 22, 2012
- Colloquium, Institut Fourier, Grenoble, March 15, 2012
- Seminar, University of Paris VI (Jussieu), March 13, 2012
on Crooked Geometry.
- January -- March 2012: Co-organizer, the special trimester on
``Geometry and Analysis of Surface Group Representations'',
at IHP, Paris.
(Seminar organizer, first speaker)
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November 10, 2012: One-Hour Invited Address at the
22nd Fall Workshop on Computational Geometry,
held at the University of Maryland.
- 2011
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Distinguished Lecturer Series, December 3-5,
Texas A & M University (3 lectures)
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Miniencuentro de Geometria Diferencial,
(with T. Drumm and V. Charette)
``Flat Lorentzian 3-Manifolds,''
(3 lectures) November 3-5,
CIMAT (Guanajuato),
Invitado como Prof. Distinguido por AMC-FUMEC
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Speaker, FRG conference, ``Ergodic decompositions of representation
varieties'',
October 17-19, Princeton University
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Plenary Speaker, 7th
William Rowan Hamilton Geometry & Topology Workshop, September 1-3,
Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
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Plenary Speaker,
Aspects of hyperbolicity in geometry, topology, and dynamicsA workshop and celebration of Caroline Series' 60th birthday
July 25-27, University of Warwick.
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Geometry and Arithmetic of Lattices
London Mathematical Society -EPSRC Durham Symposium, July 4-14.
(3 lectures)
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Closing Conference, ``Moduli Spaces,''
(Vector bundles and Algebraic Curves)
Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge July 1
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Mathematics Research Community, The Geometry of Real Projective
Structures, (with V. Charette, D. Cooper and A. Wienhard),
Snowbird, Utah, June 12-16
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Faces of Geometry: 3-Manifolds, Groups & Singularities: A Conference
in Honor of Walter Neumann Columbia University/Barnard College,
City of New York, June 6-11
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Transformation Groups and Associated Geometric Structures,
Herbert Abels 70th Birthday Conference, Bielefeld, June 2-5.
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Discrete groups and geometric structures, with applications IV,
(CGG VI), Oostende (Belgian Coast), May 30-June 2
- RTG Workshop,
Higher Dimensional Teichmueller Theory,
University of Michigan, April 15-17
- Scientific Committee,
The Triennial Ahlfors Bers Colloquium,
Rice University, March 24-27
- Co-organizer,
Representations of
Surface Groups and Higgs Bundles (A Satellite Meeting at the
University of Oxford), part of Newton Institute semester-long
activity on Moduli Spaces),
Oxford University, March 14-18
- BIRS Workshop,
Frontiers in Complex Dynamics
(Celebrating John Milnor 's 80th birthday), February 20-26
See the slides for my talk.
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Seminaire de geometrie et topologie,
UQAM, Montreal, February 18.
- Colloquium, Rice University, January 13
- 2010
- Conference on Surfaces and Representations,
University of Sherbrooke, October 6-10.
- Chair, Organizing Committee of Conference
``Geometry and analysis of Riemann surfaces and their moduli'',
in honor of Scott Wolpert (September 24-26,2010).
- Invited speaker, Geometry Section,
International Congress of Mathematicians,
Hyderabad, India August 19- 27.
Here are the slides
and the paper from my talk.
- Co-organizer (with Ser-Peow Tan and Caroline Series),
and Conference Speaker,
Geometry, Topology and Dynamics of Character Varieties,
Institute of Mathematical Sciences, National University of Singapore,
July 19- August 14.
Here are the slides
from my talk.
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Teichmueller theory and its interactions with Mathematics
and Physics, ESF Research Conference, CRM Barcelona, June 28- July 3.
- Co-organizer (with J. Seade, S. Cantat and N. Gusevskii),
and Lecturer in 5-lecture advanced course,
Advanced School and Workshop on Discrete Groups in Complex Geometry,
ICTP, Trieste, Italy, 28 June - 16 July
- Co-organizer (with A. Reid, R. Canary and S. Boyer),
Character Varieties in the Geometry and Topology of Low-dimensional Manifolds,
BIRS, Banff April 25-30.
- Colloquium,
University of Illinois, Chicago, April 23
- Invited Speaker,
Second Killing-Weierstrass
Colloquium,
Braniewo, Poland, March 24-26.
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Colloquium, University of Maryland, February 25 (ICM talk)
- Co-organizer (with A. Wienhard),
Workshop on
Flat Conformal Lorentzian Structures, Princeton University,
February 18-20
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Geometric Structures in 2 and 3 dimensions,
Autrans, France, January 17-22
- 2009
- Colloquium, University of Michigan, October 13
- "What Is..." seminar, University of Michigan, October 13
- Colloquium, Temple University, September 21
- Seminar, Princeton University, September 20
- NSF-CBMS Conference, Central Connecticut State University,
July 23, 2009
Families of Riemann Surfaces and Weil-Petersson Geometry
(Scott Wolpert, principal speaker)
- Encounters between Mathematicians and Theoretical Physicists,
Strasbourg, June 11-13
- Department Colloquium and Seminar, University of Rennes, June 6-11
- Luminy workshop, From Braid Groups to Teichmueller spaces,
June 1-5
- University of Paris Sud (Orsay)
- Invited Speaker,
DC-MD-VA sectional meeting of Mathematical Association
of America,
University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, Virginia
18 April 2009, ``The Geometry of 2x2 Matrices.''
Click here for the slides of my talk.
- Colloquium, University of Tennessee, 20 March 2009
- Research Seminar, Northeastern University, 10 March 2009
- Complex Analysis/Dynamics Seminar, Graduate Center, CUNY, 4 March 2009
- Colloquium, Howard University, 6 February 2009
- Colloquium, National University of Singapore, 21 January 2009
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Geometry, Algebra, and Topology of Character Varieties, Special Session,
AMS Annual Meeting, Washington DC January 7 2009
- 2008:
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Co-organizer (with O. Garcia-Prada and F. Labourie),
Representations of Surface Groups,
CIRM, Luminy, 1-5 September 2008.
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Symplectic Geometry Seminar, University of Toronto, August 2008
- The slides from my
talk at the
Conference on Algebraic and Geometric Topology,
Gdansk, Poland, 9---13 June 2008.
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Lecture series in the program
on Geometry and Dynamics of Groups at Ecole Polytechnique
on June 2,3 2008.
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Scientific Committee,
Discrete Groups and Geometric Structures III , Kortrijk,
Belgium, May 26-30 2008..
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The slides from my talk,
"Algebraic varieties of surface group representations",
at the conference
Group-Theoretic Methods in the Study of Algebraic Varieties
celebrating Friedrich Hirzebruch's 80th birthday, Bar-Ilan University,
Ramat-Gan, Israel,
22 May 2008.
- The slides from my
plenary talk at the
Fourth Ahlfors-Bers Colloquium,
Rutgers University, Newark, May 8-11, 2008..
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I ran a weekly seminar at Princeton University,
Mapping Class Group Dynamics on Moduli spaces,
beginning with a Department Colloquium, 6 February 2008.
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During the Spring Semester of 2008, I spent my sabbatical as
a Member of the
Institute for Advanced Study.
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On March 3, I gave a short presentation on Equilateral Triangles
in the
After Hours Conversations,
Harry's Bar, Institute for Advanced Study.
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Mathematics Department Colloquium,
Yale University,
Dynamical systems arising from
deformations of geometric structures,
April 9, 2008.
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Co-organizer and speaker, Conference on Lie Theory, Geometry and
Discrete Groups, celebrating John Millson's 62nd birthday,
College Park, 20-23 March 2008.
- Coorganized (with V. Charette, K. Melnick and
K. Scannell), Special session, Conformally flat
Lorentz manifolds, Joint Mathematical Meetings, San Diego 2008.
- 2007:
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Member, MSRI program in Teichmueller theory
and Kleinian groups, November-December 2007
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2007-2008
Distinguished Scholar-Teacher.
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Colloque de mathematiques de Montreal at CRM, Montreal,
September 14.
(Click here for the slides of my talk.)
- Seminar, University of Sherbrooke, September 13.
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7th KAIST Geometric Topology Fair
in Gyeongju, Korea, July 7.
Click here for the slides of my talk.
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Geometry and the
Imagination in honor of Bill Thurston.
Click here for the slides of my talk.
- Coorganizer,
Representations of surface groups, workshop,
American Institute of Mathematics,
March 19-23.
Click
here for our background document for this workshop.
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William Spencer Lectures, Kansas State University, May.
- 2006:
- Pacific Northwest Geometry Seminar, Portland State University
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Geometry Conference in honour of Nigel Hitchin, CSIC, Madrid
- Oberwolfach Workshop,
"Teichmueller spaces: Classical and Quantum"
- Principal Speaker, "Current Developments in Geometric Topology,"
Barrett Lectures, University of Tennessee
- Co-organizer and Speaker,
Complex Geometry: a conference to honor Domingo Toledo's 60th birthday,
University of Utah
- Topology Seminar, University of Wisconsin, Madison
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Lie Groups, Dynamics, Rigidity and Arithmetic: A conference
to honor Gregory Margulis's 60th birthday, Yale University
- Colloquium, Pennsylvania State University
- Colloquium, Brown University
- Topology seminar, University of Texas