GEAR Events

• Third GEAR Junior Retreat, July 30 – August 5, 2017, at Stanford University
• Third GEAR Retreat, August 6-12, 2017, at Stanford University [Video Archive]
• Log Cabin Workshop: Sp(4,R)-Anosov representations, January 10-18, 2016, in the Colorado mountains near Granby, CO
• Log Cabin Workshop: Higgs Bundles and Harmonic Maps, January 3-11, 2015, Asheville, NC
• Second GEAR Junior Retreat: May 23-June 1, 2014 at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
• Second GEAR Retreat: March 17-21, 2014 at the University of Maryland
• Log Cabin Workshop: Higher Teichmüller-Thurston Theory, June 23-29, 2013, Point Lookout Resort and Conference Center, Northport, Maine
• First GEAR Retreat, July 23-August 10, 2012, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Associated Events

2017

• Encounters between mathematicians and theoretical physics (No. 99 and No. 100 in the series):June 8–10, 2017 and September 7–9, 2017, respectively, Université de Strasbourg. The theme of the first conference is Geometry and Physics and it is dedicated to the work of Bill Thurston. The theme of the second conference is Geometry, Dynamics and Physics.

2016

• Workshop “Higgs bundles in Geometry and Physics”. February 29 – March 3 2016 at Universität Heidelberg. Organizers: Andreas Ott, Jan Swoboda, Hartmut Weiß, Anna Wienhard, and Frederik Witt.
• Workshop on Surface Group Representations. March 17-20, 2016 at Caltech. Organizers: Qiongling Li andTengren Zhang
• 2016 Snowbird Workshop on Character Varieties. June 5-11, 2016, Snowbird Resort in Utah. Organizers: Sean Lawton, Christopher Manon, and Adam Sikora.
• Current trends on spectral data for Higgs bundles II. June 11-12, 2016 at Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, Stony Brook University. Organizers: Laura B. Anderson and Laura P. Schaposnik.
• Hitchin 70: Celebrating 30 years of Higgs bundles and 15 years of generalized geometry. September 12-16, 2016, ICMAT, Madrid. This event, in celebration of Nigel Hitchin’s 70th birthday and in honour of his contributions to mathematics, is part of larger activity that will take place across three locations during the period 5-16 September 2016.
• Heidelberg Laureate Forum. September 18 to 23, 2016 at Universität Heidelberg.

2015

• Hyperbolic Geometry and Minimal Surfaces, IMPA, Rio de Janeiro, January 4-10, 2015.
• Dynamics on Moduli Spaces of Geometric Structures,  an MSRI program January 12-May 22, 2015.
• 13th annual Graduate Student Topology and Geometry Conference, March 28-29, 2015, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
• Groups, Geometry, and 3-Manifolds in honor of Daryl Cooper’s 60th birthday, May 21-22, 2015.
• Workshop on Mapping Class Groups and Out(F_N),  University of Texas at Austin, May 25-30, 2015.
• Higgs Bundles and Character Varieties, June 9-12, 2015. A satellite GEAR workshop and Special Session of the Joint International Meeting of the AMS, EMS and SPM, Porto.
• Summer school in geometry and topology at the University of Chicago, with focus on surfaces, June 22-26, 2015. Organizers: Danny Calegari, Alex Eskin, Benson Farb, Howard Masur, Peter May, Alden Walker, Amie Wilkinson.
• 3rd Heidelberg Laureate Forum will be August 23 to 28, 2015. The Heidelberg Laureate Forum connects highly talented young researchers (undergraduates, PhD candidates, and postdocs) with the best scientists in their research fields: mathematics and computer science (Abel, Fields, Turing, and Nevanlinna Laureates).
• Current trends on spectral data for Higgs bundles. September 26-27, 2015 in San Jose, California. Organizer Laura P. Schaposnik.
• Hengstberger Symposium, November 2-6, 2015. This conference focuses on interactions and relations between the different topics of Higher Teichmüller theory, mainly group representations, geometric structures and Higgs bundles. Organizers: Daniele Alessandrini, Gye-Seon Lee, Ana Peón-Nieto.

2014

• 3-month program “Random Walks and Asymptotic Geometry of Groups”, January 6 to April 4, 2014, organised with the collaboration of the Centre Emile Borel at the Institut Henri Poincaré in Paris.  Three workshops also will be organized in Paris (IHP):
  – Random Walks on Groups, January 27-31, 2014
  – Groups Acting on Rooted Trees, February 24-28, 2014
  – Asymptotic Properties of Infinite Groups, March 24-28, 2014. An Introductory School attached to this trimester will be held at CIRM (Centre International de Rencontre à Luminy) from January 6-17, 2014.
• AMS Special session on “Deformation spaces of geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds”, 2014 Joint Mathematics Meeting in Baltimore, Maryland on January 16-18, 2014.
• 3-month program “Random Walks and Asymptotic Geometry of Groups”, January 6 to April 4, 2014, organised with the collaboration of the Centre Emile Borel at the Institut Henri Poincaré in Paris.Three workshops also will be organized in Paris (IHP):
  – Random Walks on Groups, January 27-31, 2014
  – Groups Acting on Rooted Trees, February 24-28, 2014
  – Asymptotic Properties of Infinite Groups, March 24-28, 2014
• Research School on Finsler Geometry and Applications, Istanbul, April 2014.
• Workshop on the topic of Geometric Structures and Discrete Groups, University of Texas Austin, May 2-4, 2014.
• In Strasbourg, May 2014:  Master class on Thurston-Grothedieck-Teichmuller Theories. Addressed primarily to PhD students and post-docs, but everyone is welcome.
• School on the geometry and physics of moduli spaces, May 19-23, 2014 (Miraflores de la Sierra, Madrid, Spain).
• Intensive research period “Teichmüller theory and surfaces in 3-manifolds”, May 26 – June 20, 2014,
  Centro di Ricerca Matematica “Ennio De Giorgi”, Pisa – Italy.
• “What’s Next? The mathematical legacy of Bill Thurston,” Cornell University, June 23-27, 2014.
• Real Vector Bundles, Brest, France, July 7-11, 2014. Topics: real vector bundles in the sense of Atiyah, real principal bundles, characteristic classes, gauge theory, moduli spaces, A1-homotopy theory. The conference will contain 4 extended lectures, of 3h each, on A1-homotopy theory, characteristic classes, gauge theoretic methods in real algebraic geometry, and Yang-Mills equations over Klein surfaces, as well as 5 research talks of 1h.
• The geometry, topology and physics of moduli spaces of Higgs bundles, Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Singapore, July 7 – August 29, 2014.
• 2014 QGM PhD Retreat, July 28-August 15, 2014 in Aaurhus, Denmark. Senior lecturers: Jørgen Ellegaard Andersen (Aarhus), Rinat Kashaev (Geneve), Maxim Kontsevich (IHÉS, Paris), Dmitry Lebedev (ITEP, Moscow), Nicolai Reshetikhin (Berkeley).
• The 10th William Rowan Hamilton Geometry and Topology Workshop on Homological invariants in low-dimensional topology and geometry. Hamilton Mathematics Institute, Trinity College Dublin, August 26-30, 2014. The workshop will consist of a  two day mini-course August 26-27, followed by a three day lecture series, August 28-30, 2014. This year’s topic for the workshop is Homological invariants in low-dimensional topology and geometry.
• Finsler Geometry with Applications, Conference-Master Class, September 23-30, 2014
• Dynamics, Geometry  and Groups Day, October 11, 2014. This event will be the first of a continuing biyearly event organized by Indiana, IUPUI, Purdue, and Illinois that will feature talks from groups, geometry, and dynamics.
• The Sixth Triennial Ahlfors-Bers Colloquium, Yale University,  October 23-26, 2014. Confirmed speakers: Stergios Antonakoudis, Mladen Bestvina, Jon Chaika, David Dumas, Peter Haissinsky, Jeremy Kahn, Sarah Koch, Nick Makarov, Kasra Rafi, Wendelin Werner.
• The 52nd meeting of the Texas Geometry and Topology Conference, University of Texas-Austin, November 14-16, 2014. Speakers: Danny Calegari (U of Chicago), Nathan Dunfield (UIUC), Benson Farb (U of Chicago), Eli Grigsby (Boston College), Yair Minsky (Yale), Jessica Purcell (BYU), Rachel Roberts (Wash. U in St. Louis), Marty Scharlemann (UCSB).

2013

• Masters Class at QGM: Jan. 21-25, 2013, “Topological recursion from matrix models to quantum algebraic geometry”,  presented by Bertrand Eynard and Nicolas Orantin.
• Conference at QGM:  Jan. 28 – Feb. 1, 2013, “Recursion and integrability” (organizers: R. Penner and J. E. Andersen).
• Special Period at ESI on Teichmüller theory: Jan. 1 – April 21, 2013 (organizers: Funar, Neretin, Papadopoulos, Penner).
• Masters Class presented by R. Penner and Christian Reidys plus Conference at ESI: March 11-20, 2013, on “Moduli spaces in computational biology”.
• Hot Topics Workshop at MSRI Berkeley, California: Surface subgroups and cube complexes,
• Mar 18, 2013 to Mar 22, 2013 , March 18-22, 2013. http://www.msri.org/web/msri/scientific/workshops/hot-topics-workshops/show/-/event/Wm9922
• RTG workshop on Random Walks in Groups at Ann Arbor, Michigan March 29-31 2013 (Mini courses by Alex Furman, Vadim Kaimanovich, and Anders Karlsson). http://www.math.lsa.umich.edu/conferences/rtg3-29-13/index.html
• Masters Class presented by R. Kashaev on “Quantum Teichmüller Theory and TQFT” plus Conference at ESI, April 12-19, 2013.
• Mathematics Research Communities at Snowbird, Utah. “Geometric Group Theory”, June 16-22, 2013.
• Mini Course and Lecture series at The Hamilton Mathematics Institute, August 27-31, 2013, Trinity College Dublin: The 9th William Rowan Hamilton Geometry and Topology Workshop.
• Teichmüller Theory and Interfaces with Ergodic Theory and Group Actions, Oct 28-Nov 1, 2013, New Delhi, India
• ICERM Semester Program on “Low-dimensional Topology, Geometry, and Dynamics,” Sept 9 – Dec 6, 2013.  2013).
• Workshop on Character varieties and Geometric Structures,  Howard University, Washington, December 16-20, 2013.

2012

• 29th Annual Workshop in Geometric Topology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, June 28-30, 2012. The principal speaker will be Professor Benson Farb of the University of Chicago.
• Workshop on Geometry of Surface Group Representations, CRM, Barcelona, March-June, 2012 Program.
• Geometry and Analysis of Surface Group Representations, IHP, Paris, January-March, 2012.
• Master class at QGM, Aarhus University: The Ehrenpreis conjecture by Jeremy Kahn and Vladimir Markovic http://qgm.au.dk/cal/special/2012/ehrenpreis/, August 6-10, 2012.
• Conference at QGM, Aarhus University: Progress in low-dimensional topology: Teichmüller theory and 3-manifold groups http://qgm.au.dk/cal/special/2012/progress/, August 11-14, 2012.
• Mathematics and Physics of Moduli Spaces, Heidelberg, Germany, September 24-28, 2012. The main thematic focus is higher Teichmueller spaces and the various contexts in which they arise in theoretical physics. The goal of this activity is to make recent developments accessible to both mathematicians and physicists.  The program will consist of lecture series given by Vladimir Fock, Edward Frenkel, Sergei Gukov, Francois Labourie, Greg Moore (tbc) and Joerg Teschner and a few additional talks.
• Workshop on Higher Teichmuller-Thurston Theory, CRM Montreal, October 15-19, 2012.
• ICMAT School on Conformal Blocks, Oct 15-19, 2012, Madrid (Spain).