Announcing the Second Network Retreat of the GEAR Research Network in
the Mathematical Sciences, at the University of Maryland, March 17-21,
2014! 
 
This conference features recent advances and future directions
in the general area of GEometric structures And Representation
varieties.Topics of discussion may include: relations with gauge
theory, Higgs bundles, and mathematical physics, low-dimensional
topology, algebraic structure of mapping class groups, geometries and
dynamical systems on Teichmüller space,  Lorentzian geometry, complex
hyperbolic geometry, affine differential geometry, bounded cohomology, and
3-manifold character varieties.
 
Confirmed speakers include:
 
Jørgen Andersen
Michelle Bucher
Moira Chas
Tom Church
Sorin Dumitrescu
Elisha Falbel
François Guéritaud
Tobias Hartnick
Alessandra Iozzi
Misha Kapovich
Steve Kerckhoff
Chris Leininger
John Loftin
Ignasi Mundet i Riera
Walter Neumann
Dragomir Saric
Jean-Marc Schlenker
Amie Wilkinson
Mike Wolf
 
To register please visit the website http://gear.math.umd.edu <http://gear.math.umd.edu/> , and/or
contact the organizers.  The Retreat will be held at the Marriott
Conference Center at the University of Maryland University College in
College Park, Maryland.
 
Funding is available for all Network members and qualified graduate
students/postdocs at Network nodes. If possible, limited funding may also
be available for non-GEAR members who wish to attend. Funding requests
can be made on the registration form.
 
 
We hope you can attend!
 
Sincerely,
 
The Organizing Committee,
 
Steve Bradlow
Bill Goldman (chair)
Steve Kerckhoff
Karin Melnick
Richard Wentworth
Anna Wienhard
Scott Wolpert
Christian Zickert
 
 

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