Workshop on Modular forms around string theory

September 16 - 20, 2013, The Fields Institute

Location: Fields Institute

Schedule

Monday, September 16th, 2013
09:00	Modular forms associated to K3 surfaces endowed with lattice polarizations of high Picard rank Adrian Clingher, University of Missouri at St. Louis Location:Fields Institute, Room 230
10:30 to 11:30	(I): Mirror symmetry and modular forms. Yongbin Ruan, University of Michigan Location:Fields Institute, Room 230
11:30	Families of lattice-polarized K3 surfaces with monodromy Charles Doran, University of Alberta Location:Fields Institute, Room 230
14:00	Heterotic/F-theory duality and lattice polarized K3 surfaces. Andreas Malmendier, Colby College Location:Fields Institute, Room 230
15:30	Mirror quartics, discrete symmetries, and the congruent Zeta function. Ursula Whitcher, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Location:Fields Institute, Room 230

Tuesday, September 17th, 2013
09:00	Berglund–Hübsch–Krawitz Mirrors via Shioda Maps Tyler Kelly, University of Cambridge Location:Fields Institute, Room 230
10:30 to 11:30	Puzzles to do with the zeta-fuction for the quintic threefold Philip Candelas, University of Oxford Location:Fields Institute, Room 230
11:30	(II): Mirror symmetry and modular forms. Yongbin Ruan, University of Michigan Location:Fields Institute, Room 230
14:00	(I) Quasimodular forms and holomorphic anomaly equation Don Zagier, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics and Collège de France Location:Fields Institute, Room 230
15:30	(I) Quantum black holes, wall crossing, and mock modular forms. Sameer Murthy, NIKHEF, Amsterdam Location:Fields Institute, Room 230

Wednesday, September 18th, 2013
09:00	(I) Rational points on a singular CY hypersurface. Daqing Wan, UC Irvine Location:Fields Institute, Room 230
10:30 to 11:30	Rankin-Selberg methods for closed string amplitudes. Boris Pioline, University of Jussieu Location:Fields Institute, Room 230
11:30	Gromov-Witten invariants and modular forms. Jie Zhou, Harvard University Location:Fields Institute, Room 230

Thursday, September 19th, 2013
09:00	Another product formula for a Borcherds form Steve Kudla, University of Toronto Location:Fields Institute, Room 230
10:30 to 11:30	Extremal bundles on Calabi-Yau manifolds Peng Gao, Harvard and Simons Institute Location:Fields Institute, Room 230
11:30	(II) Some number theory coming from string amplitude calculations Don Zagier, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics and Collège de France Location:Fields Institute, Room 230
14:00	(II) Mathieu moonshine, mock modular forms and string theory. Sameer Murthy, NIKHEF, Amsterdam Location:Fields Institute, Room 230
15:30	(II) Mirror symmetry for the slope zeta function. Daqing Wan, UC Irvine Location:Fields Institute, Room 230

Friday, September 20th, 2013
09:30	Automorphy of Calabi–Yau threefolds of Borcea–Voisin type. Noriko Yui, Queen's University Location:Fields Institute, Room 230
10:45 to 11:45	Mirror symmetry of determinantal quintics Shinobu Hosono, Tokyo University Location:Fields Institute, Room 230
11:45	The Lines in the Dwork Pencil of Quintic Threefolds Philip Candelas, University of Oxford Location:Fields Institute, Room 230
14:00	Towards a reduced mirror symmetry for the quartic K3. Simon Rose, The Fields Institute Location:Fields Institute, Room 230

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