Monday, 15 Aug 2016

09:10am - 09:20am

Registration

09:20am - 09:30am

Opening Remarks

09:30am - 10:20am

Simple length rigidity
Richard Canary, University of Michigan, USA

10:20am - 11:00am

--- Group Photo & Coffee Break ---

11:00am - 11:50am

Positively ratioed representations (PDF)
Tengren Zhang, California Institute of Technology, USA

11:50am - 02:30pm

--- Lunch Reception at IMS ---

02:30pm - 03:20pm

Convex polytopes in hyperbolic 3-space and discrete conformal geometry of surfaces
Feng Luo, Rutgers University, USA

03:20pm - 04:00pm

--- Coffee Break ---

04:00pm - 04:50pm

Primitive stable representations in semisimple Lie groups (PDF)
Inkang Kim, Korea Institute for Advanced Study, Korea

Tuesday, 16 Aug 2016

09:15am - 09:30am

Registration

09:30am - 10:20am

Constructing thin surface groups in lattices in SL(3,R)
Alan Reid, University of Texas, USA

10:20am - 11:00am

--- Coffee Break ---

11:00am - 11:50am

Tori in the Einstein universe of dimension three (PDF)
Virginie Charette, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada

11:50am - 02:00pm

--- Lunch Break ---

02:00pm - 02:50pm

Complex deformations of n-Fuchsian representations
David Dumas, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

02:50pm - 03:10pm

--- Coffee Break ---

03:10pm - 04:00pm

Exotic compact quotients of SO(d,1)
Christopher J. Leininger, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

04:00pm - 04:30pm

--- Coffee Break ---

04:30pm - 05:20pm

Compactness of symplectic critical surfaces (PDF)
Jiayu Li, University of Science and Technology, China

6.30pm

Workshop Dinner
Venue: The Scholar, NUSS Guild House

Wednesday, 17 Aug 2016

09:15am - 09:30am

Registration

09:30am - 10:20am

Anti-de Sitter geometry and polyhedra inscribed in quadrics (PDF)
Jean-Marc Schlenker, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

10:20am - 11:00am

--- Coffee Break ---

11:00am - 11:50am

Group actions on CAT(0) cube complexes
Indira Lara Chatterji, Université Nice Sophia Antipolis, France

11:50am - 02:30pm

--- Lunch Break ---

02:30pm - 03:30pm

Public Lecture: From Puzzles to Moduli Spaces
Hugo Parlier, University of Fribourg, Switzerland

Venue: Lecture Theatre 31, National University of Singapore
Block S16, Level 3, 6 Science Drive 2, Singapore 117546

03:30pm - 04:30pm

--- Coffee Break ---

04:30pm - 05:20pm

Obstruction for a virtual C² action on the circle (PDF)
Sang-hyun Kim, Seoul National University, Korea

Thursday, 18 Aug 2016

09:15am - 09:30am

Registration

09:30am - 10:20am

Maximal representations of surface groups over real closed fields
Marc Burger, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

10:20am - 10:40am

--- Coffee Break ---

10:40am - 11:30am

Geometric realisation for degenerations of hyperbolic structures (PDF)
Ken'ichi Ohshika, Osaka University, Japan

11:30am - 12:00nn

--- Coffee Break ---

12:00nn - 12:50pm

A higher rank Morse Lemma
Andrés Sambarino, Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu-Paris Rive Gauche, France

Friday, 19 Aug 2016

09:15am - 09:30am

Registration

09:30am - 10:20am

SL(2,C) Higgs bundles with smooth spectral data
Michael Wolf, Rice University, USA

10:20am - 11:00am

--- Coffee Break ---

11:00am - 11:50am

Renormalized volume of 3-manifolds and the Weil-Petersson geometry of moduli space
Jeffrey F. Brock, Brown University, USA

11:50am - 02:30pm

--- Lunch Break ---

02:30pm - 03:20pm

On Atiyah's independence conjecture for four points in a hyperbolic plane (PDF)
Ying Zhang, Soochow University, China

03:20pm - 04:00pm

--- Coffee Break ---

04:00pm - 04:50pm

A complex hyperbolic Riley slice
John Parker, Durham University, UK and Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan