Dear all,

I would like to announce the following seminar at Kavli IPMU

Speaker: Prof. John F. Duncan (Case Western)
Date: June 16
Time: 13:15-14:45
Place: Seminar Room A, Kavli IPMU

Title: Moonshine and Sigma Models

Abstract: In the first part of the talk I will review the Conway
moonshine observation of Conway--Norton, and the more recent Mathieu
moonshine observation of Eguchi--Ooguri--Tachikawa. The latter of these
indicates a relationship between the largest of the sporadic simple
Mathieu groups and the moduli space of K3 sigma models. In the second
part I will describe a vertex operator superalgebra that connects these
two moonshine observations together, and partially illuminates the
relationship between Mathieu's groups and K3 sigma models.

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Todor Eliseev Milanov
Associate Professor 
Kavli IPMU,  Japan

todor.milanov at ipmu.jp