Moduli of parabolic Higgs bundles and Atiyah algebroids -- Johan Martens, February 13, 2009

We will discuss the holomorphic Poisson geometry of the moduli space of (non-strongly) parabolic Higgs bundles over a Riemann surface with marked points in terms of Lie algebroids. Time permitting we will also discuss the Hitchin system in this setting and show how this provides a global analogue of the Grothendieck-Springer resolution.