Prof. Villegas' course "Geometry of Character Varieties" at SISSA

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Professor Fernando Rodriguez Villegas (ICTP) will give a 10 lectures 
course on

"Geometry of Character Varieties"

at SISSA, as follows


20 March    11:00 - 13:00
Room 134

21 March    09:00 - 11:00
Room 136

27 March    11:00 - 13:00
Room 134

28 March    09:00 - 11:00
Room 136

(The schedule for the remaining three weeks will be fixed later.)

   The course will cover some of the work with Hausel and Letellier on
the subject. Basic tools on finite fields, Weil conjectures, group
representations and symmetric functions will be discussed as needed.