Speaker: Carlos Simpson (Nice, France) Date: 24/09/2021 at 10:30 Title: A twistor space for moduli of logarithmic connections of rank 2 on an open curve Abstract: We'll outline a way of constructing a twistor family of moduli spaces for rank 2 logarithmic connections on a quasi-projective curve. The idea is that this should combine the weight 1 property, reflecting the hyperkähler structure, for moduli over a compact curve, with the weight 2 property for the local monodromy transformations around the punctures that is related to parabolic structures.