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Where geometry meets dynamics: groups, entropy and Hausdorff dimension

I will discuss geometric and dynamical properties of actions of discrete groups on Riemannian symmetric spaces. I will highlight some aspects of the interplay between geometry and dynamics, and presen...

Deformations of varieties of general type

We prove that small deformations of a projective variety of general type are also projective varieties of general type, with the same plurigenera....

The Hermitian geometry of the Chern connection

We consider some problems concerning the geometry of the Chern connection, including: metrics with constant Chern-scalar curvature; the generalizations of the Kähler-Einstein condition to the non-Kähl...

Moduli spaces of residueless meromorphic differentials and the KP hierarchy

I'll present a recent joint work with A. Buryak and D. Zvonkine, where we study the moduli spaces of residueless meromorphic differentials, i.e., the closures, in the moduli space of stable curves, of...

Horospheres in several complex variables

A horocycle in the unit disk of the complex plane is a euclidean disk which is internally tangent to a point p of the boundary of the disk. Horocycles are limits of Poincaré balls as the center moves ...

Finiteness Theorems for Gromov-Hyperbolic Groups

This is a joint work with G. Courtois, S. Gallot and A. Sambusetti. We shall prove that, given two positive numbers and H, there are finitely non cyclic torsion-free -hyperbolic marked groups (Γ.Σ) sa...

Centers as cohomology, representations and microlocal sheaves

In a pioneering 1981 paper De Concini and Procesi provided a beautiful description for cohomology of fixed point sets (Springer fibers) (G/B)_​ϵ in type A. This was an important precursor to two later...

The categorified Grothendieck-Riemann-Roch Theorem

The Chern character is a central construction which appears in topology, representation theory and algebraic geometry. In algebraic topology it is for instance used to probe algebraic K-theory which i...

Sporadic behaviour of quantum representations and rank-level duality

The theory of conformal blocks provides us with projective representations of the mapping class group. These can equivalently also be constructed from the point of view of non-abelian theta functions,...

L^2-cohomology of quasi-fibered boundary metrics

Quasi-fibered boundary metrics (QFB metrics) form a class of complete metrics generalizing the class of quasi-asymptotically locally Euclidean metrics introduced by Joyce. After reviewing what QFB met...

Actions of Cremona groups on CAT (0) cube complexes

A key tool to study the plane Cremona group is its action on a hyperbolic space. Sadly, in higher rank such an action is not available. Recently, in geometric group theory, actions on CAT(0) cube comp...

Non commutative cluster coordinates for Higher Teichmüller Spaces

In higher Teichmuller theory we study subsets of the character varieties of surface groups that are higher rank analogs of Teichmuller spaces, e.g. the Hitchin components and the spaces of maximal rep...