 “Groups and symmetries: From the Neolithic Scots to John McKay” Conference honouring the contributions of John McKayApril 27-29, 2007Program |
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Friday, April 27, 2007 |
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08:30 - 09:00
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Registration and Coffee
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Room 6245
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09:00 - 09:15
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Conference Opening: François Lalonde (Directeur CRM), Graham Carr (Assoc. Dean, Research and Graduate Studies, Concordia), Truong Vo Van, (Assoc. V.P. Research, Concordia)
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Room 6214
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Chair : John Harnad (Concordia/CRM) Meeting room : 6214 |
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09:15 - 10:00
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Jack Morava
(The Johns Hopkins University) Symmetric functions, Faber polynomials, and replicable functions | Abstract |
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10:00 - 10:45
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Simon P. Norton
(University of Cambridge) Irrational Moonshine | Abstract |
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10:45 - 11:00
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Coffee, tea, cookies
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Room 6245
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11:00 - 12:00
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Chongying Dong
(University of California, Santa Cruz) Representation theory of vertex operator algebras | Abstract |
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12:00 - 13:00
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Lunch
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Chair : Pavel Winternitz (Université de Montréal/CRM) Meeting room : 6214 |
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13:00 - 14:00
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George Hart
(Stony Brook University) Sculptural Presentation of the Icosahedral Rotation Group (To be held in the lounge, Room 6245) | Abstract |
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14:00 - 14:45
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Philip Boalch
(École Normale Supérieure) Painlevé, Klein and the icosahedron | Abstract |
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14:45 - 15:30
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John Duncan
(Harvard University) Jacobi forms in moonshine | Abstract |
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15:30 - 16:00
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Coffee, tea, cookies
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Room 6245
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Chair : Jacques Hurtubise (McGill/CRM) Meeting room : 6214 |
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16:00 - 17:00
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Yuri Manin
(Max-Planck-Institut fuer Mathematik) CRM-ISM Colloquium : Counting rational points and rational curves: from Waring's problem to quantum cohomology | Abstract |
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17:00 - 17:45
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CRM-ISM Wine-and-cheese
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Room 6245
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17:45
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Shuttle bus to Concordia (Departure 17:45, Main entrance, Pav. A. Aisenstadt)
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18:00 - 19:30
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Reception in Honour of John McKay
Hall Building, Concordia University 1455 de Maisonneuve O. Room H-765/767 |
Saturday, April 28, 2007 |
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08:30 - 09:00
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Coffee
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Room 6245
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Chair : André Joyal (UQAM) Meeting room : 6214 |
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09:00 - 09:45
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Igor V. Dolgachev
(University of Michigan) McKay correspondence for cocompact discrete subgroups of SU(1,1) | Abstract |
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09:45 - 10:30
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Iku Nakamura
(Hokkaido University) The G-orbit Hilbert schemes and McKay correspondence for simple singularities | Abstract |
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10:30 - 10:45
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Coffee, tea, cookies
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Room 6245
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Chair : Jacques Hurtubise (McGill/CRM) Meeting room : 6214 |
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10:45 - 11:30
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Valery Gritsenko
(Université de Lille I) Arithmetic of the root system E_8 and the geometry of the moduli spaces of K3 surfaces | Abstract |
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11:30 - 12:15
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Viacheslav V. Nikulin
(The University of Liverpool) Finiteness of the number of arithmetic groups generated by reflections in hyperbolic spaces | Abstract |
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12:15 - 13:00
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John Conway
(Princeton University) Three-dimensional Space Groups | Abstract |
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13:00 - 14:00
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Lunch
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Chair : Henri Darmon (McGill) Meeting room : 6214 |
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14:00 - 15:00
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Noam D. Elkies
(Harvard University) On some uses of moduli of high-rank K3 surfaces | Abstract |
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15:00 - 15:45
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M. Ram Murty
(Queen's University) Effective Equidistribution of Eigenvalues of Hecke Operators | Abstract |
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15:45 - 16:15
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Coffee, tea, cookies
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16:15 - 17:15
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Yuri Manin
(Max-Planck-Institut fuer Mathematik) Modular shadows and the L'evy-Mellin transform | Abstract |
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19:30 - 21:30
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Banquet chez Queux (158, St-Paul Street E.)
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Sunday, April 29, 2007 |
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08:30
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Coffee
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Room 6245
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Chair : Hershy Kisilevsky (Concordia) Meeting room : 6214 |
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09:00 - 09:45
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Eyal Z. Goren
(McGill University) Families of Ramanujan graphs and quaternion algebras | Abstract |
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09:45 - 10:30
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Henri Darmon
(McGill University ) More Stark-Heegner moonshine: exotic Heegner points on CM elliptic curves and periods of binary theta-series | Abstract |
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10:30 - 11:00
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Coffee, tea, cookies
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Room 6245
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11:00 - 12:00
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Nicholas M. Katz
(Princeton University) Report on exponential sums | Abstract |
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12:00 - 13:00
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Lunch
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Chair : John Harnad (Concordia/CRM) Meeting room : 6214 |
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13:15 - 14:00
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Daniel Allcock
(University of Texas at Austin) A Monstrous Proposal | Abstract |
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14:00 - 14:45
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Nora Ganter
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Hecke operators in generalized Moonshine and equivariant elliptic cohomology | Abstract |
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14:45 - 15:30
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Jorge Andres Devoto
(Instituto Tecnologoco de Buenos Aires) Monstrous Moonshine and Whitham Equations | Abstract |
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15:30 - 16:00
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Coffee, tea, cookies
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Room 6245
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