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Retreat 2012
August 6 - 10, 2012, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The first Retreat for the GEAR Network will be held August 6 -10, 2012.
This will be preceded by the Junior Retreat. The Retreat is designed is to build bridges between the different interest groups in the network - and more broadly among mathematicians working in areas relating to GEometric structures And Representation varieties. Each of the five days of the Retreat will feature one of the following themes:
- Higgs Bundles
- Geometric Structures and Teichmüller Spaces
- Dynamics on Moduli Spaces
- Special Representations
- Hyperbolic 3-manifolds
There will be two 50 minute lectures in the morning, with the goal of surveying the state-of-the-art, followed by 3 or 4 shorter research lectures in the afternoon. Recognizing that participants will not be equally well versed in all thematic areas, the program will include "everything you ever wanted to know about (X)" sessions led by each day's experts, as well as open discussions designed to identify emerging issues that might benefit from a multidisciplinary approach.
SURVEY speakers: (top of page)
- Richard Canary (Univ. of Michigan)
- Daryl Cooper (Univ. of California, Santa Barbara)
- David Dumas (Univ. of Illinois, Chicago)
- Nathan Dunfield (Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
- Oscar Garcia-Prada (CSIC, Madrid)
- François Labourie (Univ. Paris-Sud)
- Tony Pantev (Univ. of Pennsylvania)
- John Smillie (Cornell)
- Anna Wienhard (Princeton)
- Amie Wilkinson (Univ. of Chicago/Northwestern)
Registration and Funding: (top of page)
Please register online by clicking here. Some funding is available for travel and accommodations with the application included with the registration form. Please register even if you are not applying for funding.
Local Information:(top of page)
For travel information, please click here.
Rooms have been blocked for August 5-11 at the following hotels (see the accommodations map): the Illini Union Hotel, Hampton Inn, Hilton Garden, and I-Hotel. Please mention "GEAR" when booking your rooms. Accommodations for funded junior members also visiting for the Junior Retreat will be provided at the Illinois Street Residence Hall. Additional places to stay may be found here and here.
Transportation from the Willard Airport (CMI) is available via the Air Bus (schedule, route map). Note that the Transit Plaza and Illini Union are both adjacent to Altgeld Hall. The Amtrak train from Chicago arrives at the Illinois Terminal, connected to campus by the 5Green bus, among others.
Information on local entertainment can be found at the217 and the Krannert Center website.
Organizing Committee: (top of page)
Jayadev Athreya, Steven Bradlow, William Goldman, Steven Kerckhoff, Christopher Leininger, Richard Wentworth, Anna Wienhard.
Contact Information:(top of page)
Please send any questions to: gear-retreat@math.uiuc.edu
GEAR Retreats 2012 Poster (download poster in pdf format for printing)