Oberwolfach Conference "Moduli Spaces and Modular Forms"

Program

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.