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Title:
Higgs bundles, flat connections, and higher Teichmueller theory

Speaker:
Richard Wentworth

Abstract:
In the first part of this talk, intended for a general audience, I will introduce the moduli space of local systems on Riemann surfaces and its three avatars: Higgs bundles, flat connections, and representations of the fundamental group.

Link:
http://scgp.stonybrook.edu/video_portal/video.php?id=2701

Workshop:
Simons- Workshop: New perspectives on Higgs bundles, branes and quantization