Recent lectures and conferences

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• 2011
• Distinguished Lecturer Series, December 3-5, Texas A & M University (3 lectures)
• Miniencuentro de Geometria Diferencial, (with T. Drumm and V. Charette) ``Flat Lorentzian 3-Manifolds,'' (3 lectures) November 3-5, CIMAT (Guanajuato), Invitado como Prof. Distinguido por AMC-FUMEC
• Speaker, FRG conference, ``Ergodic decompositions of representation varieties'', October 17-19, Princeton University
• Plenary Speaker, 7th William Rowan Hamilton Geometry & Topology Workshop, September 1-3, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
• Plenary Speaker, Aspects of hyperbolicity in geometry, topology, and dynamicsA workshop and celebration of Caroline Series' 60th birthday July 25-27, University of Warwick.
• Geometry and Arithmetic of Lattices London Mathematical Society -EPSRC Durham Symposium, July 4-14. (3 lectures)
• Closing Conference, ``Moduli Spaces,'' (Vector bundles and Algebraic Curves) Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge July 1
• Mathematics Research Community, The Geometry of Real Projective Structures, (with V. Charette, D. Cooper and A. Wienhard), Snowbird, Utah, June 12-16
• Faces of Geometry: 3-Manifolds, Groups & Singularities: A Conference in Honor of Walter Neumann Columbia University/Barnard College, City of New York, June 6-11
• Transformation Groups and Associated Geometric Structures, Herbert Abels 70th Birthday Conference, Bielefeld, June 2-5.
• Discrete groups and geometric structures, with applications IV, (CGG VI), Oostende (Belgian Coast), May 30-June 2
• RTG Workshop, ``Higher Dimensional Teichmueller Theory", University of Michigan, April 15-17
• Scientific Committee, The Triennial Ahlfors Bers Colloquium, Rice University, March 24-27
• Co-organizer, Representations of Surface Groups and Higgs Bundles (A Satellite Meeting at the University of Oxford), part of Newton Institute semester-long activity on Moduli Spaces), Oxford University, March 14-18
• BIRS Workshop, Frontiers in Complex Dynamics (Celebrating John Milnor 's 80th birthday), February 20-26
• Seminaire de geometrie et topologie, UQAM, Montreal, February 18.
• Colloquium, Rice University, January 13

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• 2010
• Conference on Surfaces and Representations, University of Sherbrooke, October 6-10.
• Invited speaker, Geometry Section, International Congress of Mathematicians, Hyderabad, India August 19- 27
• Co-organizer (with Ser-Peow Tan and Caroline Series), and Conference Speaker, Geometry, Topology and Dynamics of Character Varieties, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, National University of Singapore, July 19- August 14
• Teichmueller theory and its interactions with Mathematics and Physics, ESF Research Conference, CRM Barcelona, June 28- July 3.
• Co-organizer (with J. Seade, S. Cantat and N. Gusevskii), and Lecturer in 5-lecture advanced course, Advanced School and Workshop on Discrete Groups in Complex Geometry, ICTP, Trieste, Italy, 28 June - 16 July
• Co-organizer (with A. Reid, R. Canary and S. Boyer), Character Varieties in the Geometry and Topology of Low-dimensional Manifolds, BIRS, Banff April 25-30.
• Colloquium, University of Illinois, Chicago, April 23
• Invited Speaker, Second Killing-Weierstrass Colloquium, Braniewo, Poland, March 24-26.
• Colloquium, University of Maryland, February 25 (ICM talk)
• Co-organizer (with A. Wienhard), Workshop on Flat Conformal Lorentzian Structures, Princeton University, February 18-20
• Geometric Structures in 2 and 3 dimensions, Autrans, France, January 17-22

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• 2009
• Colloquium, University of Michigan, October 13
• "What Is..." seminar, University of Michigan, October 13
• Colloquium, Temple University, September 21
• Seminar, Princeton University, September 20
• NSF-CBMS Conference, Central Connecticut State University, July 23, 2009 Families of Riemann Surfaces and Weil-Petersson Geometry (Scott Wolpert, principal speaker)
• Encounters between Mathematicians and Theoretical Physicists, Strasbourg, June 11-13
• Department Colloquium and Seminar, University of Rennes, June 6-11
• Luminy workshop, From Braid Groups to Teichmueller spaces, June 1-5
• University of Paris Sud (Orsay)
• Invited Speaker, DC-MD-VA sectional meeting of Mathematical Association of America, University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, Virginia 18 April 2009, ``The Geometry of 2x2 Matrices.'' Click here for the slides of my talk.
• Colloquium, University of Tennessee, 20 March 2009
• Research Seminar, Northeastern University, 10 March 2009
• Complex Analysis/Dynamics Seminar, Graduate Center, CUNY, 4 March 2009
• Colloquium, Howard University, 6 February 2009
• Colloquium, National University of Singapore, 21 January 2009
• Geometry, Algebra, and Topology of Character Varieties, Special Session, AMS Annual Meeting, Washington DC January 7 2009

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• 2008:
  • Co-organizer (with O. Garcia-Prada and F. Labourie), Representations of Surface Groups, CIRM, Luminy, 1-5 September 2008.
  • Symplectic Geometry Seminar, University of Toronto, August 2008
  • The slides from my talk at the Conference on Algebraic and Geometric Topology, Gdansk, Poland, 9---13 June 2008.
  • Lecture series in the program on Geometry and Dynamics of Groups at Ecole Polytechnique on June 2,3 2008.
  • Scientific Committee, Discrete Groups and Geometric Structures III , Kortrijk, Belgium, May 26-30 2008..
  • The slides from my talk, "Algebraic varieties of surface group representations", at the conference Group-Theoretic Methods in the Study of Algebraic Varieties celebrating Friedrich Hirzebruch's 80th birthday, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel, 22 May 2008.
  • The slides from my plenary talk at the Fourth Ahlfors-Bers Colloquium, Rutgers University, Newark, May 8-11, 2008..
  • I ran a weekly seminar at Princeton University, Mapping Class Group Dynamics on Moduli spaces, beginning with a Department Colloquium, 6 February 2008.
  • During the Spring Semester of 2008, I spent my sabbatical as a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study.
  • On March 3, I gave a short presentation on Equilateral Triangles in the After Hours Conversations, Harry's Bar, Institute for Advanced Study.
  • Mathematics Department Colloquium, Yale University, Dynamical systems arising from deformations of geometric structures, April 9, 2008.
  • Co-organizer and speaker, Conference on Lie Theory, Geometry and Discrete Groups, celebrating John Millson's 62nd birthday, College Park, 20-23 March 2008.
  • Coorganized (with V. Charette, K. Melnick and K. Scannell), Special session, Conformally flat Lorentz manifolds, Joint Mathematical Meetings, San Diego 2008.

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• 2007:
• Member, MSRI program in Teichmueller theory and Kleinian groups, November-December 2007
• 2007-2008 Distinguished Scholar-Teacher.
  • Public lecture, October 8. "Playing pool on curved surfaces and the wrong way to add fractions," of which you may view the slides. (These slides use 4 animations, created by Ryan Hoban: a short periodic billiard trajectory on a square, a longer periodic billiard trajectory on a square, a very long billiard trajectory on a square, noneuclideant billiard trajectories converging to the golden ratio.,
• Colloque de mathematiques de Montreal at CRM, Montreal, September 14. (Click here for the slides of my talk.)
• Seminar, University of Sherbrooke, September 13.
• 7th KAIST Geometric Topology Fair in Gyeongju, Korea, July 7. Click here for the slides of my talk.
• Geometry and the Imagination in honor of Bill Thurston. Click here for the slides of my talk.
• Coorganizer, Representations of surface groups, workshop, American Institute of Mathematics, March 19-23. Click here for our background document for this workshop.
• William Spencer Lectures, Kansas State University, May.

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• 2006:
• Pacific Northwest Geometry Seminar, Portland State University
• Geometry Conference in honour of Nigel Hitchin, CSIC, Madrid
• Oberwolfach Workshop, "Teichmueller spaces: Classical and Quantum"
• Principal Speaker, "Current Developments in Geometric Topology," Barrett Lectures, University of Tennessee
• Co-organizer and Speaker, Complex Geometry: a conference to honor Domingo Toledo's 60th birthday, University of Utah
• Topology Seminar, University of Wisconsin, Madison
• Lie Groups, Dynamics, Rigidity and Arithmetic: A conference to honor Gregory Margulis's 60th birthday, Yale University
• Colloquium, Pennsylvanias State University
• Colloquium, Brown University
• Topology seminar, University of Texas