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SUMMARY:Moduli spaces of locally homogeneous geometric structures - Goldma
 n\, W (Maryland)
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CONTACT:Mustapha Amrani
DESCRIPTION:An Ehresmann structure on a manifold is a geometric structure 
 defined by an atlas of local coordinate charts into a fixed homogeneous sp
 ace. These structures form deformation spaces which themselves are modeled
  on the space of representations of the fundamental group. These deformati
 on spaces admit actions of the mapping class group\, whose dynamics can be
  highly nontrivial. In many cases the deformation space embeds inside the 
 space of representations of the fundamental group\, and geometric structur
 es provide a powerful tool to study representation spaces of surface group
 s. This talk will survey several examples of these structures and relate t
 hem to other classification problems.\n
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Newton Institute
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