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An introduction to Higgs bundles
Student-Run Geometry/Topology| Speaker: | Laura Schaposnik, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Location: | 2112 MSB |
| Start time: | Tue, Jan 14 2014, 2:10PM |
Description
We shall introduce classical Higgs bundles and their moduli
space from a geometric and Lie theoretic point of view, motivating
their study through representation theory. Then, we will extend these
concepts to Higgs bundles whose structure group are complex Lie
groups, as well as real forms, and finalize by introducing the Hitchin
fibration of the moduli space of Higgs bundles.