Hello Everyone,

We have Martin Bobb visiting today from UT. 

His title and abstract are below:

Title: Flats in compact convex projective manifolds
Abstract: Convex projective structures on manifolds are a rich generalization of hyperbolic structures. One key difference is that a convex projective manifold may have flat substruc- tures. We will discuss some first examples of convex projective geometry, and then describe a natural decomposition of compact convex manifolds along their codimension-1 flats. This generalizes a result of Benoist, which states that a compact convex projective 3-manifold geometrically JSJ-decomposes into cusped hyperbolic manifolds.