Recent lectures and conferences

• 2010
• Invited speaker, Geometry Section, International Congress of Mathematicians, Hyderabad, India
• Co-organizer (with Ser-Peow Tan and Caroline Series), Institute of Mathematical Sciences, National University of Singapore
• Teichmueller theory and its interactions with Mathematics and Physics, Barcelona, June 28- July 3.
• Co-organizer (with J. Seade, S. Cantat and N. Gusevskii), Advanced School and Workshop on Discrete Groups in Complex Geometry, ICTP, Trieste, Italy, 28 June - 16 July
• Co-organizer (with A. Reid, R. Canary and S. Boyer), Character Varieties in the Geometry and Topology of Low-dimensional Manifolds, BIRS, Banff April 25-30.
• Invited Speaker, Second Killing-Weierstrass Colloquium, Bwaniewo, Poland, March 24-26.
• 2009
• Colloquium, University of Michigan, October 13
• Colloquium, Temple University,, September 21
• NSF-CBMS Conference, Central Connecticut State University, July 23, 2009 Families of Riemann Surfaces and Weil-Petersson Geometry (Scott Wolpert, principal speaker)
• Encounters between Mathematicians and Theoretical Physicists, Strasbourg, June 11-13
• Department Colloquium and Seminar, University of Rennes, June 6-11
• Luminy workshop, From Braid Groups to Teichmueller spaces, June 1-5
• University of Paris Sud (Orsay)
• Invited Speaker, DC-MD-VA sectional meeting of Mathematical Association of America, University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, Virginia 18 April 2009, ``The Geometry of 2x2 Matrices.'' Click here for the slides of my talk.
• Colloquium, University of Tennessee, 20 March 2009
• Research Seminar, Northeastern University, 10 March 2009
• Complex Analysis/Dynamics Seminar, Graduate Center, CUNY, 4 March 2009
• Colloquium, Howard University, 6 February 2009
• Colloquium, National University of Singapore, 21 January 2009
• Geometry, Algebra, and Topology of Character Varieties, Special Session, AMS Annual Meeting, Washington DC January 7 2009
• 2008:
  • Co-organizer (with O. Garcia-Prada and F. Labourie), Representations of Surface Groups, CIRM, Luminy, 1-5 September 2008.
  • Symplectic Geometry Seminar, University of Toronto, August 2008
  • The slides from my talk at the Conference on Algebraic and Geometric Topology, Gdansk, Poland, 9---13 June 2008.
  • Lecture series in the program on Geometry and Dynamics of Groups at Ecole Polytechnique on June 2,3 2008.
  • Scientific Committee, Discrete Groups and Geometric Structures III , Kortrijk, Belgium, May 26-30 2008..
  • The slides from my talk, "Algebraic varieties of surface group representations", at the conference Group-Theoretic Methods in the Study of Algebraic Varieties celebrating Friedrich Hirzebruch's 80th birthday, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel, 22 May 2008.
  • The slides from my plenary talk at the Fourth Ahlfors-Bers Colloquium, Rutgers University, Newark, May 8-11, 2008..
  • I ran a weekly seminar at Princeton University, Mapping Class Group Dynamics on Moduli spaces, beginning with a Department Colloquium, 6 February 2008.
  • During the Spring Semester of 2008, I spent my sabbatical as a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study.
  • On March 3, I gave a short presentation on Equilateral Triangles in the After Hours Conversations, Harry's Bar, Institute for Advanced Study.
  • Mathematics Department Colloquium, Yale University, Dynamical systems arising from deformations of geometric structures, April 9, 2008.
  • Co-organizer and speaker, Conference on Lie Theory, Geometry and Discrete Groups, celebrating John Millson's 62nd birthday, College Park, 20-23 March 2008.
  • Coorganized (with V. Charette, K. Melnick and K. Scannell), Special session, Conformally flat Lorentz manifolds, Joint Mathematical Meetings, San Diego 2008.
• 2007:
• Member, MSRI program in Teichmueller theory and Kleinian groups, November-December 2007
• 2007-2008 Distinguished Scholar-Teacher.
  • Public lecture, October 8, 2007, "Playing pool on curved surfaces and the wrong way to add fractions," of which you may view the slides. (These slides use 4 animations, created by Ryan Hoban: a short periodic billiard trajectory on a square, a longer periodic billiard trajectory on a square, a very long billiard trajectory on a square, noneuclideant billiard trajectories converging to the golden ratio.,
• Colloque de mathematiques de Montreal at CRM, Montreal, September 14, 2007 and gave a seminar at the University of Sherbrooke on September 13, 2007. Click here for the slides of my talk.
• 7th KAIST Geometric Topology Fair in Gyeongju, Korea, July 7, 2007. Click here for the slides of my talk.
• Geometry and the Imagination in honor of Bill Thurston. Click here for the slides of my talk.
• Coorganizer, Representations of surface groups, workshop, American Institute of Mathematics, 19-23 March 2007. Click here for our document on background material for this workshop.
• Spencer Lectures, Kansas State University, May 2007.