Workshop on "Minimal surfaces in symmetric spaces and Labourie's conjecture"

August 22nd to August 27th 2022 - l'Escandille, Autrans, France.

Organizers: Beatrice Pozzetti, Andrea Seppi, and Jérémy Toulisse.

This workshop is intended for young researchers.

The goal is to study Labourie's conjecture which gives a link between representations of surfaces groups and equivariant minimal surfaces in symmetric spaces.

Each speaker will give a 2.5 hour lecture on a topic that will be assigned before the workshop. This format is based on the Log Cabin workshops of the GEAR network.

List of the talks:

Introduction to minimal surfaces and harmonic maps

Speaker: Filippo Mazzoli

Higher Teichmüller spaces and Labourie’s conjecture

Speaker: Nathaniel Sagman

Quasi-Fuchsian manifolds

Speaker: Diptaishik Choudhury

Markovic’s counter-example

Speaker: Samuel Bronstein

Affine spheres

Speaker: Alex Moriani

Constant curvature surfaces in Minkowski space

Speaker: Farid Diaf

Maximal surfaces in anti-de Sitter space

Speaker:Enrico Trebeschi

Maximal representations in rank 2

Speaker: Colin Davalo

Cyclic surfaces

Speaker: Dai Xian

The precise content of the talks can be found here.

Participants:

Samuel Bronstein

Diptaishik Choudhury

Colin Davalo

Farid Diaf

Christian El Emam

Parker Evans

Viola Giovannini

Frieder Jäckel

Ben Lowe

Filippo Mazzoli

Abderrahim Mesbah

Alex Moriani

Alex Nolte

Ulysse Remfort

Nathaniel Sagman

Susanne Schlich

Manh Tien Nguyen

Enrico Trebeschi

Ognjen Tosic

Gabriele Viaggi

Dai Xian

Mengxue Yang

This workshop is funded by

- The "Persyval-Lab" of the University Grenobles Alpes.

- The University of Luxembourg.

- The project "Jeunes Géomètres".

- SPP 2026 Geometry at infinity.

- SPP 2026 "Geometry at Infinity"