Geometry Seminar
Hitchin-Ngô Lab Seminar - Geometric structures and Higgs bundles
Speaker: Steven Bradlow (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)Date: Thursday, 17 September 2026 - 10:00-11:00Place: Aula Naranja, ICMAT
Abstract:
Under the right conditions surface group representations, i.e. homomorphisms from the fundamental group of a topological surface into a Lie group, are intimately connected to geometric structures modeled on homogeneous spaces, and also to Higgs bundles on Riemann surfaces. This creates opportunities for using Higgs bundles to investigate geometric structures, and also for using geometric structures to shed light on Higgs bundles. This - mostly expository - talk will explore these themes.
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