Activities

• I’m traveling to Tokyo in June to visit Prof Ken’ichi Ohshika in Tokyo for a couple of weeks and attend the IMO. I will give a talk at the Topology Seminar of the University of Tokyo on June 20.
• I’ll be attending the conference Teichmüller Theory: Classical, Higher, Super and Quantum in Oberwolfach in July.
• At the end of August, I’ll give a talk at the workshop on Metrics on higher Teichmüller spaces in Fréjus in the south of France.

Teaching and selected talks

2023

• Talk: The two natures of components of character varieties, Topology Seminar, University of Iowa (slides).

2022

• Lecture: Character varieties – a symplectic perspective at the University of Heidelberg and at the KIT Karlsruhe.

2021

• Talk: On remarkable representations of the fundamental group of a punctured sphere into PSL(2,R), Topology Seminar, University of Bristol (slides).

Past workshops, seminars, and research stays

2023

• Summer schhol: Geometry of Locally Symmetric Spaces (Montevideo, Uruguay, February 2023)
• Workshop: Interplay between symplectic geometry and cluster theory (IWH, Heidelberg, January 2023)

2022

• I had the pleasure to visit Bill Goldman at the university of Maryland in September 2022.
• Workshop: Positivity in Lie Groups (IWH, Heidelberg, January 2022)

2021

• Workshop: Dynamics in one complex variable (RTG Seminar, Heidelberg, March 2021)
• Seminar: Bridgeland’s stability conditions for meromorphic differentials (with B. Pozzetti)