Oberwolfach Conference "Moduli Spaces and Modular Forms"

    Organizers: Jan Bruinier, Valery Gritsenko, Gerard van der Geer.

      Program

    Abstracts of the talks can be found here

      Monday February 1

    • 9:30 - 10:15 Gaetan Chenevier : Unimodular hunting.
    • 10:45 - 11:15 Shouhei Ma : Universal holomorphic symplectic varieties and Borcherds products.
    • 16:30 - 17:00 Riccardo Salvati Manni : On the Kodaira dimension of A_6.
    • 17:30 - 18:15: Steve Kudla : On the subring of special cycles on orthogonal Shimura varieties.

      Tuesday February 2

    • 9:30 - 10:15 Gavril Farkas : New results on the Kodaira dimension of M_g.
    • 10:45 - 11:15 Giulio Codogni : Vertex algebras and Teichmueller modular forms.
    • 16:30 - 17:00 Ben Howard : Arithmetic volumes of unitary Shimura varieties.
    • 17:30 - 18:15: Haowu Wang : Free algebras of modular forms on type IV symmetric domains.

      Wednesday February 3

    • 9:15 - 10:00 Juerg Kramer : On formal Fourier-Jacobi expansions.
    • 10:30 - 11:00 Claudia Alfes : Harmonic Maass forms and periods.
    • 11:15 - 11:45 Christophe Ritzenthaler : Modular forms in small dimensions: geometry and arithmetic.

      Thursday February 4

    • 9:30 - 10:15 Kathrin Bringmann : Modular properties of false theta functions.
    • 10:45 - 11:15 Duco van Straten : Calabi-Yau incarnation of the Siegel paramodular form of level 61.
    • 16:30 - 17:00 Cris Poor : Paramodularity of abelian surfaces I.
    • 17:30 - 18:15: David Yuen : Paramodularity of abelian surfaces II.

      Friday February 5

    • 9:15 - 10:00 Martin Moeller : Towards the Kodaira dimension of moduli spaces of abelian differentials.
    • 10:30 - 11:00 Klaus Hulek : On the cone off effective surfaces in $\bar A_3$ (joint with Sam Grushevsky)
    • 11:15 - 12:00 Don Zagier : Witten spin intersection numbers and the arithmetic of ordinary linear differential equations.