Representations of surface groups March 19 to March 23, 2007 AIM Research Conference Center, Palo Alto, CA Organizers: Steven Bradlow, Oscar Garcia-Prada, William M. Goldman, and Anna Wienhard Description: 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 Deadline: January 5, 2007 Details: http://aimath.org/ARCC/workshops/surfacegroups.html