Fall 2015 Workshop on Algebraic Varieties

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Saturday, November 21st, 2015
09:30 to 10:30	Enumerative geometry and modular forms Noriko Yui, Queen's University
10:30 to 11:30	Elliptic Surfaces and K3-fibred Threefolds Alan Thompson, University of Waterloo
11:30	(K-theoretic) Hall algebras and sheaves on stacks Francesco Sala, Western University
14:30 to 15:30	Equivariant Contact Geometry and the LeBrun-Salamon Conjecture Peter Crooks, University of Toronto
15:30 to 16:30	Mirror symmetry for plane cubics and PEL structure Jie Zhou, Perimeter Institute
16:30 to 17:30	Normal functions over locally symmetric varieties Matt Kerr, Washington University in St. Louis
17:30	On the arithmetic of Landau-Ginzburg models of a certain class of threefolds Genival da Silva Jr.

Sunday, November 22nd, 2015
09:30 to 10:30	The Geometry of Nilpotent Orbits Greg Pearlstein, Texas A&M
10:30 to 11:30	Powers with constant second differences Natalia Garcia-Fritz, University of Toronto
11:30	Some new solutions to the Strominger system Teng Fei, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
13:30 to 14:30	On the converse modularity problem for rigid Calabi–Yau threefolds Alex Molnar, Queen's University
14:30 to 15:30	Vector-valued automorphic forms and submanifolds of ball quotients Tatyana Barron, Western University
15:30	The business of height pairings James Lewis, University of Alberta