Events : First Retreats of the GEometric structures And Representation 
varieties (GEAR) Network.
Dates: July 23-August 3, 2012 (Junior Retreat); August 6-10, 2012 (Retreat)
Location: UIUC, Urbana, Illinois

The Retreat is designed to build bridges between mathematicians working in 
areas relating to GEometric structures And Representation varieties. Each day 
of the Retreat will feature one of the following themes: (1) Higgs Bundles (2) 
Geometric Structures and Teichmüller Spaces (3) Dynamics on Moduli Spaces 
(4) Special Representations  (5) Hyperbolic 3-manifolds. See 
http://gear.math.illinois.edu/programs/SeniorRetreat2012.html for more 
information.

The Junior Retreat is designed for graduate students and postdocs and has the 
primary objective of preparing participants to take full advantage of the 
Retreat.  The Junior Retreat will feature mini-courses on each of the Retreat 
themes, as well as shorter research talks given by participants. See 
http://gear.math.illinois.edu/programs/JuniorRetreat2012.html for more 
information.

For more information on the GEAR Network see 
http://gear.math.illinois.edu/index.html

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