Upcoming Retreats
A fourth set of Retreats will be held in Heidelberg, Germany. Originally planned for July 2021, new dates have been chosen in order to accommodate disruptions caused by the coronavirus pandemic. The new dates are:
GEAR Retreat – July 25-29, 2022
Junior Retreat – July 18-22, 2022
More details to follow as soon as circumstances allow.
Past Retreats
- Third GEAR Junior Retreat, July 30 – August 5, 2017, Stanford University
[Video Archive] - Third GEAR Retreat, August 6-12, 2017, Stanford University
[Video Archive] [update link to new site]- For more information on both of the third retreats see http://www.math.fsu.edu/~ballas/gear_retreat/
Retreat Poster2017
- For more information on both of the third retreats see http://www.math.fsu.edu/~ballas/gear_retreat/
- Second GEAR Retreat: March 17-21, 2014 at the University of Maryland [update]
- Second GEAR Junior Retreat: May 23-June 1, 2014 at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. [update]
- Retreats 2012, July 23-August 10, 2012, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. [update]
- The Junior Retreat for graduate students and postdocs featured mini-courses, problem sessions, short research talks, and activities designed to promote interaction. The Retreat included survey talks, research talks, and forums for discussion. Both Retreats were structured around five themes: Higgs Bundles, Geometric Structures and Teichmüller Spaces, Dynamics on Moduli Spaces, Special Representations, Hyperbolic 3-manifolds.