Anna Wienhard of the University of Heidelberg and Princeton University describes some developments in the study of locally homogeneous geometric structures and related subsets of representation varieties of hyperbolic groups into Lie groups of higher rank, June 25, 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.