Speakers:

1. • Oscar Garcia-Prada, ICMAT, Madrid   (SLIDES)
   

2. • Peter Gothen, Porto, Portugal.  (SLIDES)
   

3. • Nigel Hitchin, Oxford, UK. (SLIDES)
   

4. • Donghoon Hyeon, SNU, Korea.
   

5. • Ignasi Mundet i Rierra, Barcelona, Spain. (SLIDES)
   

6. • Richard Wentworth, Maryland, USA.  (SLIDES)
   

7. • Graeme Wilkin, NUS, Singapore. (SLIDES)
   

Accommodation and Talks:

The workshop will take place at Allerton, a Mansion of the University of Illinois, whose address is:

515 Old Timber Road

Monticello,

Illinois 61856

Travel:

All people who have asked for help arranging transportation have received an email. If you have any questions please get in touch with Laura.

Schedule:

The Workshop will begin at 9 a.m. on Saturday May 6th and finish on Sunday May 7th after lunch. We expect participants to arrive on Friday May 5th to Allerton and depart on Sunday 7th afternoon. The tentative schedule is a s follows:

Participants:

Organization and support:

This weekend workshop is organized by Brian Collier, Georgios Daskalopoulos, Laura P. Schaposnik. If you have any questions or comments, feel free to contact them.

The workshop is made possible by generous support from these organizations:

1. •NSF through the grants 1107452, 1107263, 1107367 "RNMS: Geometric Structures and Representation Varieties" (the GEAR Network)."
   

2. •University of Illinois at Chicago through a start up fund.
   

3. •University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.