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Workshop series:
On the Geometry and Physics
of Higgs bundles


 Run in cooperation with the Association of Women in Mathematics.
Workshop 2016 Workshop 2017 Workshop 2018 Workshop 2019 Workshop 2020

The lecturenotes appear in a special volume of the journal
Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications (SIGMA)

Special Issue on Geometry and Physics of Hitchin Systems

Special Volume

Geometry and Physics of Hitchin systems V

July 6-10, 2020

University of Illinois at Chicago

Higgs bundles and their spectral data have had applications in different research areas of mathematics and physics. This fifth workshop in the series is intended to bring young researchers in the area to highlight advances in their research, and inspire new perspectives from which to study Higgs bundles and its applications. The speakers will include:

Camilla Felisetti (Geneva)
Laura Fredrickson (Stanford)
Dami Lee (Washington)
Marina Logares (Madrid)
Ruxandra Moraru (Waterloo)*
Olivia Dumitrescu (Michigan State)
Steve Rayan (Saskatchewan) 
Steve Bradlow (UIUC)* 

There will also be two mini-courses by
Vicky Hoskins and Monica Jinwoo Kang

Workshop on the Geometry and Physics of Higgs bundles IV

Simons Center for Geometry and Physics (SCGP)

March 2019

This workshop, fourth in a series of Graduate workshops on Higgs bundles, is aimed at graduate students and young postdocs, will expose participants to some current research topics on the geometry and physics of Higgs bundles. The workshop will have two mini-courses by experts on topics close to their own research, including a mix of lectures and problem sessions.

For any questions regarding the meeting, please email
Laura Schaposnik at schapos@uic.edu.

Support provided by the SCGP, and Laura Schaposnik's  
NSF grant DMS-1509693, NSF CAREER Award DMS 1749013:
and UIC' Start-Up funds

Olivia Dumitrescu  (Central Michigan)
Florian Beck (Universität Hamburg) 


RTG Workshop on the Geometry and Physics of Higgs bundles III

University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC)


June 2018

This workshop, third in a series of Graduate workshops on Higgs bundles, is aimed at graduate students and young postdocs, will expose participants to some current research topics on the geometry and physics of Higgs bundles. The workshop will have two mini-courses by experts on topics close to their own research, including a mix of lectures and problem sessions.

For any questions regarding the meeting, please email
Laura Schaposnik at schapos@uic.edu.

Support provided by NSF RTG grant DMS-1246844
And Laura P. Schaposnik's NSF CAREER Award
and UIC' Start-Up funds

Brian Collier (Maryland)
Qiongling Li (Caltech/Aarhus)



RTG Workshop on the Geometry and Physics of Higgs bundles II

University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC)

November 11-12, 2017

This workshop, second in a series of Graduate workshops on Higgs bundles, is aimed at graduate students and young postdocs, will expose participants to some current research topics on the geometry and physics of Higgs bundles. The workshop had two mini-courses by experts on topics close to their own research, including a mix of lectures and problem sessions:

Daniele Alessandrini (Heidelberg)
Laura Fredrickson (Stanford)

The workshop was followed by the meeting
"Current trends on spectral data for Higgs bundles III"
to be held at the University of Illinois at Chicago
November 13-14 2017.

RTG Workshop on the Geometry and Physics of Higgs bundles I

University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC)

October 21-23, 2016

This workshop, first in a series of Graduate workshops on Higgs bundles, is aimed at graduate students and young postdocs, will expose participants to some current research topics on the geometry and physics of Higgs bundles. The workshop had two mini-courses by experts on topics close to their own research, including a mix of lectures and problem sessions:

Marina Logares (Oxford)
Steven Rayan (Saskatchewan)

Organized By:


Laura Schaposnik


With support from:


  • NSF RTG grant DMS-1246844;
  • NSF DMS 1107452, 1107263, 1107367 "RNMS: GEometric structures And Representation varieties" (the GEAR Network);
  • Prof. L.P. Schaposnik's UIC Start up grant.