Workshop Announcement:

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               Representations of surface groups
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                  March 19 to March 23, 2007

  American Institute of Mathematics Research Conference Center

                     Palo Alto, California

        http://aimath.org/ARCC/workshops/surfacegroups.html


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Description:
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This workshop, sponsored by AIM and the NSF, will bring together
researchers studying representations of fundamental groups of Riemann
surfaces into real semsimple Lie groups. Such representations form
multi-component algebraic sets.  Recent progress in understanding these
components has come from quite different approaches.  The main goal of
the workshop is to clarify the relations between these different
approaches to initiate further research in this area 

The workshop is organized by
Steven Bradlow, Oscar Garcia-Prada, William M. Goldman, and Anna Wienhard.

For more details please see the workshop announcement page:
http://aimath.org/ARCC/workshops/surfacegroups.html

Space and funding is available for a few more participants.
If you would like to participate, please apply by filling
out the on-line form (available at the link above) no later
than January 5, 2007. Applications are open to all, and
we especially encourage women, underrepresented minorities,
junior mathematicians, and researchers from primarily
undergraduate institutions to apply.

Before submitting an application, please read the ARCC
policies concerning participation and financial support
for participants.

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AIM Research Conference Center (ARCC):
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The AIM Research Conference Center (ARCC) hosts focused
workshops in all areas of the mathematical sciences. ARCC
focused workshops are distinguished by their emphasis on
a specific mathematical goal, such as making progress on a
significant unsolved problem, understanding the proof of an
important new result, or investigating the convergence between
two distinct areas of mathematics.

For more information about ARCC, please visit
http://www.aimath.org/ARCC/