SUMMARY
This week-long conference brings together researchers working on surface group representations, higher Teichmüller theory, and analytic group theory, with daily talks running through the mornings and most afternoons from 31 August to 4 September.
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SCHEDULE
Monday, 31st August 2026
10:00 AM — 11:00 AM
Prasuna Bandi
Submanifold genericity for higher-rank actions on homogeneous spaces
11:00 AM — 11:30 AM
11:30 AM — 12:30 PM
Fernando Al Asal
Counting nearly Fuchsian surfaces
12:30 PM — 2:00 PM
2:00 PM — 3:00 PM
Sourav Ghosh
Anosov representations and proper actions
3:00 PM — 3:30 PM
3:30 PM — 4:30 PM
Pabitra Barman
Entropy and domination for quasi-Hitchin representations
Tuesday, 1st September 2026
11:30 AM — 12:30 PM
Andrea Tamburelli
Hitchin builds on Wall: topology of domains of discontinuity
12:30 PM — 2:00 PM
2:00 PM — 3:00 PM
Max Riestenberg
Stability, harmonic maps and the universal Hitchin component
3:00 PM — 3:30 PM
3:30 PM — 4:30 PM
François Guéritaud
Limit cones and quasi-laminations
Wednesday, 2nd September 2026
10:00 AM — 11:00 AM
Shreyasi Datta
Counting Rational Points Near Manifolds
11:00 AM — 11:30 AM
11:30 AM — 12:30 PM
Konstantinos Tsouvalas
Matrix entries, unipotents and linearity of amalgams
12:30 PM — 2:00 PM
2:00 PM — 3:00 PM
Giuseppe Martone
Holmes-Thompson area estimates for convex real projective surfaces and Fock-Goncharov coordinates
3:00 PM — 3:30 PM
3:30 PM — 4:30 PM
Gobinda Sau
Harmonic map heat flow and framed surface-group representations
6:00 PM — 8:00 PM
Thursday, 3rd September 2026
10:00 AM — 11:00 AM
(Vicky) Rou Wen
Criterion for Finiteness of BMS Measure
11:00 AM — 11:30 AM
11:30 AM — 12:30 PM
Daniel Douglas
Webs
12:30 PM — 2:00 PM
Afternoon
Friday, 4th September 2026
10:00 AM — 11:00 AM
Inhyeok Choi
Counting curves for subgroups of mapping class group.
11:00 AM — 11:30 AM
11:30 AM — 12:30 PM
Indranil Bhattacharya
Dendrites and Scaling limit trees
12:30 PM — 2:00 PM
2:00 PM — 3:00 PM
Rana Sardar
Boundary Maps and Quasi-Isometries for Relatively Hyperbolic Groups
3:00 PM — 3:30 PM
3:30 PM — 4:30 PM
Xian Dai
Chain recurrence at the intersection of Thurston's metric and Lagrangian dynamics