Peter Gothen's Annual Report
Year:
2016
Brief description of the research activities:
Study of geometric and topological properties of moduli spaces.
Talks / Seminars / Courses :
Communications in international conferences
Title:
Flexibility of surface group representations in U(p,q) via Higgs bundles
Name of the event:
Workshop - Higgs bundles and Hitchin system - VBAC2016
Talk:
Invited talk
Date:
11.01.2016 to 15.01.2016
Host institution:
Centre Interfacultaire Bernoulli, EPFL
Country:
Switzerland
Location / City:
Lausanne
Title:
Exotic connected components of SO(p,q)-Higgs bundle moduli
Name of the event:
Hitchin 70: Celebrating 30 years of Higgs bundles and 15 years of generalized geometry
Talk:
Invited talk
Date:
12.09.2016 to 16.09.2016
Host institution:
Instituto de Ciencias Matemáticas
Country:
Spain
Location / City:
Madrid
Organization of regular seminars:
- Organized a working group at CMUP on the Hitchin system, 2nd semester of the academic year 2015-2016.
Outreach activities:
- Participated in the Mostra da Universidade do Porto, 17-20 March, 2016.
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Course on projective geometry (4 lectures), Geometria projetiva: abrir perspetivas, in the Univer-
sity of Porto Mathematics Summer School for secondary school students, 5–9 September 2016.
Work visits:
- Barcelona, 29-30 November 2016, visiting Prof. Ignasi Mundet, Departamento de Matemáticas, Universitat de Barcelona.