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Title: Conference on Bounded Cohomology, Harmonic Maps and Higgs
Bundles
Date: March 14 - 19, 2005
Site: Strasbourg (France) and Basel (Switzerland)
Topic: The aim of the conference is to bring together
researchers interested in the applications of bounded cohomology, harmonic maps
and Higgs bundles to the study of discrete group representations, and to profit
from the convergence of ideas which follows from different approaches to
similar problems.
Recently progress has been made in several open problems, where rigidity
results were proven using methods and techniques either from Higgs bundles,
harmonic maps or bounded cohomology. While the different methods lead in
certain cases to similar results, sometimes they give only complementary
results which do not seem to be easily approachable using other techniques.
We hope that bringing experts of the three different approaches together
will help to explore the relations more systematically and will lead to a
deeper understanding and further progress.
Organized by: Oliver Baues (Karlsruhe), Olivier Biquard
(Strasbourg), Alessandra Iozzi (Basel, Strasbourg), Anna Wienhard (Basel)
e-mail: bhmhb@math.ethz.ch
URL: http://www.math.unibas.ch/~bhmhb