Hyperbolic manifolds: Some other families of representations (3 of 3)- Darren Long

Conference Title: GEAR Junior Retreat 2012 Theme: Hyperbolic 3-manifolds (6 of 6) Title: Hyperbolic manifolds: Some other families of representations (3 of 3) Speaker: Darren Long, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara; Date and Time: Thursday August 02, 15:15 Description: It's been explained elsewhere how one can recover geometric information from representations into certain Lie groups, for example SL(2,C). We'll discuss representations into other groups, (for example finite groups and SL(n,R)) and give examples of some applications. Sponsor: GEAR Network Local host: UIUC Department of Mathematics Funding provided by: National Science Foundation Research Networks in Mathematical Sciences programAbstract: Prof. Darren Long, in this GEAR Junior Retreat 2012 mini-course on Hyperbolic 3-manifolds, will discuss how to recover geometric information from representations in finite groups and SL(n,R), and give examples.