
ADDRESS: Furocho, Chikusaku, Nagoya, Japan / POSTAL CODE: 464-8602

Research Past Conferences and Workshops 2009 AY Moduli and Discrete Groups

Update: 2024/12/03

Research

Moduli and Discrete Groups

Period

June 8–12, 2009

Place

RIMS, Room 420, Kyoto University

Speakers include

Valery Alexeev (University of Georgia), Daniel Allcock (University of Texas at Austin), Valery Gritsenko (Université Lille 1), Samuel Grushevsky (Princeton University), Klaus Hulek (Universität Hannover), David Hyeon (Marshall University), Fumiharu Kato (Kyoto University), Shigeyuki Kondo (Nagoya University), Radu Laza (University of Michigan), Yongnam Lee (Sogang University), Shigeru Mukai (Kyoto University), Iku Nakamura (Hokkaido University), Riccardo Salvati-Manni (Sapienza Università di Roma), Nick Shepherd-Barron (University of Cambridge), Ravi Vakil (Stanford University)

Organizers

Shigeyuki Kondo (Nagoya University), Shigeru Mukai (Kyoto University)

Support

JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S) No. 19104001 (Toshiyuki Katsura, Hosei University),
JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S) No. 19104002 (Masahiko Saito, Kobe University),
JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) No. 18204001 (Shigeyuki Kondo, Nagoya University),
RIMS: Kyodo-riyo-kenkyu

Contact to

Shigeyuki Kondo
e-mail:	kondo (at) math.nagoya-u.ac.jp
phone:	+81-52-789-2815
address:	Graduate School of Mathematics, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-8602 JAPAN

Program

June 8 (Mon)
13:00–14:00	Valery Alexeev (University of Georgia) Moduli of Campedelli and Burniat surfaces
14:30–15:30	Iku Nakamura (Hokkaido University) A canonical morphism from the second compactification SQ_g,K^toric to the first compactification SQ_g,K of the moduli of abelian varieties
16:00–17:00	Samuel Grushevsky (Princeton University) The Schottky problem and the superstring measure
June 9 (Tue)
10:00–11:00	Klaus Hulek (Universität Hannover) Abelianization of orthogonal groups and the fundamental group of modular varieties
11:30–12:30	Valery Gritsenko (Université Lille 1) The Borcherds function Φ₁₂ and the Kodaira dimension of modular varieties
14:30–15:30	Riccardo Salvati-Manni (Sapienza Università di Roma) A combinatorial approach to compactifications of the moduli space of 8 points on the line
16:00–17:00	Shigeyuki Kondo (Nagoya University) Moduli of plane quartics, Göpel invariants and Borcherds products
18:00–20:00	Banquet (at Shirankaikan Yamauchi Hall in Kyoto University)
June 10 (Wed)
10:00–11:00	Daniel Allcock (University of Texas at Austin) On the classification of reflective Lorentzian lattices
11:30–12:30	Shigeru Mukai (Kyoto University) Homologically trivial involutions and Shioda-Inose correspondence for U⊕U(2)
afternoon	Free discussion
June 11 (Thu)
10:00–11:00	Ravi Vakil (Stanford University) The ring of invariants of n points on the projective line
11:30–12:30	David Hyeon (Marshall University) Log minimal model program for the moduli space of stable curves
14:30–15:30	Radu Laza (University of Michigan) Notes on the birational geometry of the moduli spaces of genus 4 curves and cubic threefolds
16:00–17:00	Yongnam Lee (Sogang University) Construction of surfaces of general type via Q-Gorenstein smoothings
June 12 (Fri)
10:00–11:00	Fumiharu Kato (Kyoto University) Artin–Schreier–Mumford curves
11:30–12:30	Nick Shepherd-Barron (University of Cambridge) Tropes in genus 3