Workshop "Discrete Groups and Moduli" (2nd workshop of Graduate School of Mathematics, Nagoya University)

We organize the following workshop.

  • Title: Discrete Groups and Moduli
  • Date: 2, September 2002--5, September 2002
  • Place: Nagoya University
  • Sponsor: Graduate School of Mathematics, Nagoya University
  • Topics: Automorphic forms, Lattices, Reflection groups, Moduli of varieties
  • Tentatively agreed to participate:
    Valery Alexeev (Univ. of Georgia), Jan Bruinier (Heidelberg), Igor Dolgachev (Ann Arbor), Osamu Fujino (RIMS), Gerard van der Geer (Amsterdam), Bert van Geemen (Milano), Klaus Hulek (Hannover), Eduard Looijenga (Utrecht), Daisuke Matsushita (Hokkaido Univ.), Iku Nakamura (Hokkaido Univ.), Viacheslav Nikulin (Univ. of Liverpool), Kyoji Saito (RIMS), Abdellah Sebbar (Ottawa), Tetsuji Shioda (Rikkyo Univ.), Ravi Vakil (Stanford)

  • Organizers: Shigeru Mukai (RIMS), V.V. Nikulin (Liverpool), Shigeyuki Kondo (Nagoya)
  • http://www.math.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~kondo/2002workshop.html

    How to choose your port of entry

  • Nagoya airport: there are direct flights to Nagoya from Seoul, Hong Kong, Amsterdam, Detroit and Frankfurt.
  • Narita airport: Narita Airport is about 2 hours from Tokyo by train or limousine bus. Nagoya is about 2 hours from tokyo by the Bullet train.
  • Osaka airport (Kansai Airport, KIX): there are regular train and limousine services to Shin-Osaka station (50 min), and Kyoto station (1 h 20 min by bus). Nagoya is about 40 min from Osaka, 30 min from Kyoto station.

  • Program (Tentative)

    September 2
    14:00-15:00 ?Igor Dolgachev (Univ. of Michigan)
    Calabi-Yau manifolds and hermitian symmetric domains
    15:30-16:30 ?Daisuke Matsushita (Hokkaido)
    Higher direct images of Langrangian fibrations -revised-
    17:00-18:00 ?Ravi Vakil (Stanford)
    Intersection number theorems on the moduli space of (smooth, stable, or compact type) curves
    September 3
    10:00-11:00 ? Osamu Fujino (RIMS)
    A canonical bundle formula
    11:30-12:30 ? Eduard Looijenga (Utrecht)
    TBA
    14:00-15:00 ? Bert van Geemen (Milano)
    Moduli of cubic surfaces and their hessians
    15:30-16:30 ? Tetsuji Shioda (Rikkyo)
    Discrete moduli and integral points (tentative)
    September 4
    10:00-11:00 ? Abdellah Sebbar (Ottawa)
    Characterizing the discrete groups of Moonshine (a joint work with Conway and Mckay)
    11:30-12:30 ? Jan Bruinier (Heidelberg)
    TBA
    14:00-15:00 ? Viacheslav Nikulin (Liverpool)
    On classification of Lorentzian Kac-Moody algebras
    15:30-16:30 ? Kyoji Saito (RIMS)
    The highest integrable modules over elliptic algebras
    September 5
    10:00-11:00 ? Gerard van der Geer (Amsterdam)
    Cohomology of local systems and Siegel modular forms
    11:30-12:30 ? Klaus Hulek (Hannover)
    On the nef cone of toroidal compactification of ${\cal A}_4$
    14:00-15:00 ? Iku Nakamura (Hokkaido)
    Compactification of the moduli of abelian varieties
    15:30-16:30 ? Valery Alexeev (Georgia)
    Moduli of reductive varieties (with Michel Brion)