Workshop participant feedback
‘The presentations were intellectually stimulating and addressed both foundational and cutting-edge topics in the field. The diversity of perspectives – ranging from early-career researchers to established scholars – fostered a productive environment for learning and collaboration. I found the discussions particularly enriching, often extending beyond the sessions and sparking new ideas for future research.’
The workshop’s goal was to explore connections across mathematical communities that study different geometric moduli spaces. The workshop brought together researchers from positive scalar curvature geometry, minimal surface theory, harmonic mapping theory, and special geometries. The study of moduli spaces naturally draws on a confluence of ideas from neighbouring fields, and in each of these areas there is a tradition of exploiting rigidity, genericity, and stability phenomena.
Despite many parallel developments, there has been surprisingly limited interaction and cross-collaboration across these communities. This workshop aimed to foster new connections and to elucidate future research directions.