Thiago Fassarella (UFF) 

Title: Moduli spaces of parabolic Higgs bundles

Abstract: We are interested in moduli spaces of parabolic Higgs bundles on (punctured) curves. A ramified cover between curves defines a map between the corresponding moduli spaces, and we will discuss the behavior of this map with respect to the Hitchin fibration.  This is joint work in progress with Frank Loray.