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We are pleased to announce the Moduli Crossroads Retreat, I, a workshop for graduate students taking place June 8 - June 12, 2015. We have funding to help defray the cost of travel and accommodation for the participants. See http://www.math.wisc.edu/~rkent/MXRI.html for information on how students may apply for participation. Please pass this message along to any students who may be interested. The Moduli Crossroads Retreat (MXr) is a five day workshop for graduate students studying moduli of Riemann surfaces (broadly understood to include mapping class groups, Teichmueller theory, the algebraic topology of moduli spaces, the algebraic and arithmetic geometry of algebraic curves and their moduli spaces, anabelian geometry, dynamics on moduli spaces, et cetera). The principal goal of the retreat is to bring together students studying moduli via algebra, algebraic geometry, analysis, arithmetic, dynamics, group theory, and geometric topology in order to build relationships between researchers in these areas at an early stage in their careers. The retreat will bring together PhD students for 5 days of Mathematics and professional development in beautiful Madison, Wisconsin. We welcome students at all stages of their studies, including younger students only just beginning research. The activities will include workshop-style lecture series by young faculty, aimed to give participants insight into the multitude of perspectives by which to view moduli. Participants will give short introductions to their work or areas of interest. There will also be professional development elements to prepare students for professional life in academia and industry, including discussions of public speaking, teaching, searching for employment in academia and industry, applying for funding, and conducting research. The schedule will leave ample time for interaction between participants, and the friendly environment will help foster communication and stimulate activity. We hope to create an environment with lots of naturally occurring mentoring among the participants, and therefore evidence of good mentoring qualities are highly valued in students closer to graduation. The Moduli Crossroads retreat is supported by the National Science Foundation and the University of Wisconsin. Best, Richard Kent. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- This message was sent to you via the Geometry List, which announces conferences in geometry and closely related areas to over 1200 mathematicians worldwide. At http://listserv.utk.edu/archives/geometry.html there are many functions available, including checking the archives since November 2005, changing your e-mail address or preferences, and joining/leaving the list. If you have problems that cannot be resolved at this website, send a message to [log in to unmask] Before sending an announcement, please carefully read the following. Any announcements that are *not* about conferences (e.g. those about jobs, journals, books, etc.) will be rejected by the moderator without comment. To announce a geometry or closely related conference, send the announcement (including a conference web site if possible) to [log in to unmask] The moderator cannot edit your message; list members will receive the announcement as an e-mail from you EXACTLY as you submitted it. For example, if your submission starts with "Please post this on the geometry list" then your conference announcement will also begin with that statement. In order to keep down the volume of e-mail, only TWO announcements per conference will be approved by the moderator. The "subject" of your message should include the name of the conference and the number (first or second) of the announcement, e.g. Gauss Memorial Lectures in Geometry: Second Announcement. Please check that your announcement (especially the website) is correct. Corrections will be approved only in the most critical situations, e.g. if corrected information is not available on the website. If you send a submission from an e-mail address that is not subscribed to the geometry list then you will be sent an e-mail asking for confirmation. This feature is designed to thwart the hundreds of machine-generated spam that are sent to the list and would otherwise have to be manually blocked by the moderator. The Geometry List is sponsored and maintained by the Mathematics Department, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville.