REMINDER: Geometry & Physics Seminar - Thursday, 10 Apr 2025, at 14:30 - VENUE: Luigi Stasi Seminar Room - Anton Alekseev

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*_Geometry & Physics Seminar_*


Thursday, 10 Apr 2025, at 14:30

*VENUE:* ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room



Speaker: *Anton Alekseev* (University of Geneva)


Title: *Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity, Teichmüller spaces, and the Virasoro 
algebra*


*Abstract:* In this talk, we will explain the relation between (infinite 
dimensional) Teichmüller spaces of hyperbolic metrics on oriented 
2-manifolds with ideal boundary and the Virasoro algebra. This work is 
motivated by recent results on Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity, and by the 
study of moduli spaces of flat connections on surfaces with boundary.
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The talk is based on a joint work with Eckhard Meinrenken, see 
arXiv:2401.03029/

/https://indico.ictp.it/event/11002//

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