Title: Canonical representations of surface groups.Abstract: For $Sigma_{g,n}$ a genus $g$ surface with $n$ punctures, we study the character variety parameterizing representations of $pi_1(Sigma_{g,n})$. This character variety has a natural action of the fundamental group of the moduli space of curves. In joint work with Josh Lam and Daniel Litt, we aim to describe the points with […]