François Labourie of Université Paris-Sud Orsay explains the complex interpretation of Hitchin components for rank 2 groups as a space of pairs, June 26, 2014 at the Bill Thurston Legacy Conference.
The conference, "What's Next? The mathematical legacy of Bill Thurston," held at Cornell June 23-27, 2014, brought together mathematicians from a broad spectrum of areas to describe recent advances and explore future directions motivated by Thurston's transformative ideas.