SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES

Workshop on Arithmetic, Geometry and Physics around Calabi-Yau Varieties and Mirror Symmetry - July 23-29, 2001

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
Monday July 23
9:00-9:30	Opening Ceremony and information session Welcome by K. Davidson, Director
9:30-10:30	S. -T. Yau, Harvard University Mirror Principle (click for PDF file)
10:30-11:00	Coffee Break
11:00-12:00	James D. Lewis, University of Alberta Regulators of higher Chow cycles on Calabi-Yau varieties
12:00-2:00	Lunch Break
2:00-3:00	V. Batyrev, University of Tuebingen Introduction to toric methods in mirror symmetry
3:00-3:30	Coffee Break
3:30-4:30	R. Schimmrigk, Georgia Southwestern University Arithmetic aspects of Calabi-Yau varieties and conformal field theory
5:00-6:00	C. Doran, Columbia University Variation of the mirror map and algebro-geometric solutions to Garnier systems
Tuesday July 24
9:30-10:30	S. Hosono, University of Tokyo Introduction to GKZ hypergeometric system
10:30-11:00	Coffee Break
11:00-12:00	X. de la Ossa, Oxford University Counting Fp-rational points for Calabi-Yau manifolds
12:00-2:00	Lunch Break
2:00-3:00	P. Candelas, Oxford University Observations on the form of the local L-function for the quintic threefold
3:00-3:30	Coffee Break
3:30-4:30	Y. Goto, Hokkaido University of Education K3 surfaces over finite fields with symplectic group actions
5:00-6:00	F. Rodriguez Villegas, University of Texas at Austin Arithmetic of some hypergeometric threefolds
6:00	The Fields Institute Reception
Wednesday July 25
9:30-10:30	S. Müller-Stach, GHS Essen Picard-Fuchs equations and algebraic K-theory
10:30-11:00	Coffee Break
11:00-12:00	I. Dolgachev, University of Michigan Calabi-Yau manifolds and Hermitian bounded domains
12:00-2:00	Lunch Break
2:00-3:00	S. Tankeev, Vladimir State University On the Brauer group of a Calabi-Yau variety
3:00-3:30	Coffee Break
3:30-4:30	M. Saito, Kobe University Relative Lefschetz action and BPS state counting
5:00-6:00	P. Berglund, University of Southern California On hybrid phases in the extended Kahler moduli space of Calabi-Yau threefolds
Thursday July 26
9:30-10:30	S. Hosono, University of Tokyo Monodromy transforms of hypergeometric series in (local) mirror symmetry
10:30-11:00	Coffee Break
11:00-12:00	V. Batyrev, University of Tuebingen Local mirror symmetry and McKay correspondence
12:10-1:10	A. Todorov, UC Santa Cruz Moduli of Calabi-Yau manifolds
Free Afternoon
Friday July 27
9:30-10:30	B. Lian, Brandeis University Monodromy of Calabi-Yau varieties
10:30-11:00	Coffee Break
11:00-12:00	J. Stienstra, University of Utrecht Ordinary Calabi-Yau threefolds
12:00-2:00	Lunch Break
2:00-3:00	N. Yui, Queen's University The modularity of Calabi-Yau varieties
3:00-3:30	Coffee Break
3:30-4:30	H. Verrill, University of Hannover Intermediate Jacobians of certain rigid Calabi-Yau threefolds
5:00-6:00	T. Ito, University of Tokyo Birational smooth minimal models have equal Hodge numbers in all dimensions
Saturday July 28
9:30-10:30	Pedro Luis del Angel, CIMAT On indecomposable higher cycles in a product of hyperelliptic curves
10:30-11:00	Coffee Break
11:00-12:00	A. Collino, University of Torino Indecomposable higher Chow cycles on hypersurfaces and on Jacobians
12:00-2:00	Lunch Break
2:00-3:00	R. Schimmrigk, Georgia Southwestern University Black hole attractor varieties and complex multiplication
3:00-3:30	Coffee Break
3:30-4:30	M. Saito, Kobe University Deformations of Okamoto-Painlev'e pairs and Painlev'e equations
5:00-6:00	TBA
Sunday July 29
9:30-10:30	Problem Session
10:30-11:00	Coffee Break
11:00-12:00	Discussion on the Fields Proposal
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