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SUMMARY:Ramiro Lafuente (The University of Queensland)
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DESCRIPTION:Title: <a href="https://researchseminars.org/talk/VSGS/145/">E
 xpanding Ricci solitons\, minimal surfaces and Higgs bundles</a>\nby Ramir
 o Lafuente (The University of Queensland) as part of Virtual seminar on ge
 ometry with symmetries\n\n\nAbstract\nIn this talk\, I will report on rece
 nt joint work with Adam Thompson (Muenster)\, in which we produce multi-pa
 rameter families of expanding Ricci solitons (including Einstein manifolds
 ) using a symmetry\, dimensional-reduction Ansatz. The equations reduce to
  a coupled system involving a harmonic map equation and minimal surfaces i
 n non-compact symmetric spaces. To produce solutions we exploit a new link
  with Hitchin's theory of Higgs bundles. I will assume no familiarity with
  any of these concepts throughout the talk.\n
LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/VSGS/145/
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