Modular Invariants in Topology and Analysis

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Date/Location

The conference will take place in the week September 8-12, 2014 at the Faculty of Mathematics of the Universität Regensburg.

Scientific Organisers

Matthew Ando
Gerd Laures
Weiping Zhang

Local Organisers

Aims/Scope

The rough intention of the conference is to bring together researchers interested in the following fields:

topological modular forms and generalizations
modular invariants from Dirac operators
secondary and higher invariants related to the Witten genus and generalizations - geometric and field theoretic constructions
vertex operator algebraic aspects
other sources of modularity of geometric and analytic invariants

Invited Speakers

Speakers include:

Dan Berwick Evans (Stanford)
Anand Dessai (Freiburg)
Nora Ganter (Melbourne)
Vassili Gorbounov (Aberdeen)
Owen Gwilliam (Berkeley)
Fei Han (National University of Singapore)
Hans Werner Henn (Strasbourg)
Michael Joachim (Münster)
Nitu Kitchloo (Johns Hopkins University)
Anatoly Libgober (Chicago)
Xiaonan Ma (Jussieu)
Akhil Mathew (Berkeley)
Lennart Meier (Virginia)
Stephan Stolz (Notre Dame)
Vesna Stojanoska (Bonn)
Peter Teichner (Bonn)

Participants

H. Aaya (Casablanca)
D. Absmeier (Bochum)
B. Ammann (Regensburg)
B. Arnold (Bonn)
M. Bayeh (Regina)
J. Beardsley (Johns Hopkins Univ.)
H. von Bodecker (Bielefeld)
L. Borutzky (Bonn)
D. Bruegmann (Bonn)
St. Chadwick (Univ. of California)
I. Galvez-Carillo (Terassa)
R. Haugseng (Bonn)
D. Heard (Bonn)
H. Heine (Osnabrück)
J. Heller (Bonn)
S. Kandel (Bonn)
A. Krause (Bonn)
J. Lind (Regensburg)
B. Liu (Köln)
Cl. Löh (Regensburg)
V. Lorman (Johns Hopkins Univ.)
M. Ludewig (Potsdam)
I. Mamouni (Rabat)
A. Mazel-Gee (Berkeley)
A. Nakade (Johns Hopkins Univ.)
J. Noel (Regensburg)
M. Olbermann (Bochum)
G. Raptis (Regensburg)
O. Raventos-Morea (Regensburg)
M. Spong (Berlin)
J. Sprang (Regensburg)
N. Stapleton (Bonn)
S. Thyssen (Bochum)
A. Tonks (London)
M. Völkl (Regensburg)
St. Wittkamp (Bochum)
K. Waldorf (Greifswald)
T. Wurzbacher (Bochum)

Registration desk information

The registration desk will be open on Monday from 8:00 in room M104 (in the math department). Please have your tickets and bank details ready.

Emergency contact: 0179 9463648 (U. Bunke) or 0176 21148539 (T. Nikolaus)

Schedule

The talks take place in lecture hall H31 in the math department. To see titles and abstract, click on any name marked boldface !

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
09.00 - 10.00	Teichner	Kitchloo	Ma	Henn	Gorbunov
10.00 - 10.30	Coffee in M104
10:30 - 11:30	Gwilliam	Joachim	Berwick-Evans	Mathew	Han
11.30 - 13:00	Lunch
13:30 - 14:30	Dessai	Ganter	Excursion	Meier
14.30 - 15:00	Coffee in M104		Excursion	Coffee in M104
15:00 - 16:00	Stolz	Libgober	Excursion	Stojanoska
16:15-17:15	Gong Show I	Gong Show II	Dinner (18:00-21:00)	soccer (17:00-19:00)

Excursion and Dinner

We will hike from Regensburg to Adlersberg, where we have dinner (and beer) in a very nice Biergarten. The hike will be about 8-9 km through the 'Winzerer Höhen', a nice area along the Danube.

We meet at 3:00 pm at the steinerne Brücke in Regensburg downtown and plan to be in Adlersberg around 6:00 pm. After dinner there will be a chartered bus which takes us back to Regensburg. For those how do not want to hike we will also organize transportation to Adlersberg.

Soccer

At thursday afternoon we will play soccer at the university sport center. Note that we play on artificial turf.

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