European Algebraic Geometry Conference ====================================== Warwick, Mon 15th -- Sat 20th Jul 1996 EC TMR grant European Algebraic Geometry Conference, contract ERBFMMACT 950029 British EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Council) EC HCM project AGE (Algebraic Geometry in Europe), contract ERBCHRXCT 940557 Exchange program Infinite Geometry and Analysis, Royal Society - Japan Society for Promotion of Science Scientific committee: A. Beauville (Paris), F. Catanese (Pisa), N. Hitchin (Cambridge), K. Hulek (Hannover), J.D.S. Jones (Warwick), C. Peters (Grenoble), M. Reid (Warwick) Program ======= Key to main topics: SW: Seiberg-Witten and geometry of 4-manifolds MS: Mirror symmetry Mg: Moduli space of curves Pd: Algebraic geometry and physical dualities Mon 15th Jul 2:00 pm Peter Kronheimer: TBA (SW 1) 3:30 Robbert Dijkgraaf: Mathematical aspects of string duality, I (Pd 1) 5:00 Chris Peters: Intro to mirror symmetry (some Hodge-theoretic aspects) (MS 1) 7:00 pm Graduate students meeting (Student's union bar) Tue 16th Jul 9:30 Eduard Looijenga: TBA (Mg 1) 11:00 Robbert Dijkgraaf: Mathematical aspects of string duality, II (Pd 2) 2:00 -- 3:00 and 3:30 -- 4:30 parallel sessions (3 lecture rooms) 5:00 Debate: What is alg geom? Chairman: Herb Clemens Wed 17th Jul 9:30 Dietmar Salamon: TBA (SW 2) 11:00 Dave Morrison: The geometry underlying mirror symmetry (MS 2) 2:00 Carel Faber: On the tautological ring of M_g (Mg 2) 3:30 Maxim Kontsevich: Non-linear Hodge structures for Calabi-Yaus (MS 3) 5:00 Special colloquium lecture: J-P. Serre Algebraic groups and semisimple representations 6:15 AGE business meeting (Math Inst., Room 2) 7:00 pm Graduate students' seminar (Math Inst., Room 1) Thu 18th Jul 9:30 Viktor Batyrev: Mirror symmetry and cohomological McKay correspondence in higher dimension (MS 4) 11:00 Ron Donagi: TBA (Pd 3) 2:00 -- 3:00 and 3:30 -- 4:30 parallel sessions (3 lecture rooms) 5:00 Problem session (or debate) many speakers Fri 19th Jul 9:30 Lucia Caporaso: The uniformity conjectures for rational points on curves (Mg 3) 11:00 Ron Donagi: TBA (Pd 4) 2:00 TBA 3:30 Alexandr Klyachko: Moduli of vector bundles on toric varieties 5:00 Simon Donaldson: Localisation and bundles over the projective plane (SW 3) 6:30 Buffet dinner (alcoholic) Sat 20th Jul 9:30 Claire Voisin: Mirror symmetry for complete intersections (after Givental) (MS 5) 11:00 Eduard Looijenga: TBA (Mg 4) 12:30 sandwich lunch 2:00 Shigeru Mukai: The locus of K3 curves in M_g end 3:15 pm Other probable speakers: L. Bonavero: Moishezon varieties with small Picard groups Philippe Eyssidieux: K\"ahler-hyperbolic properties of Griffiths' horizontal mappings Barbara Fantechi: Intrinsic normal cone and virtual fundamental classes Valery Gritsenko: Mark Gross: Examples of mirror symmetry via 3-tori fibrations M. Kontsevich (2): D-branes, triangulated categories, quantization and noncommutative geometry (MS) Marco Manetti: The Severi inequality K^2 >= 4 chi Laurent Manivel: Vanishing theorems for ample vector bundles Slava Nikulin: Finite groups of symplectic automorphisms of K3 surfaces Slava Nikulin (2): Discriminants of K3 surfaces, automorphic forms and Kac--Moody algebras Bernd Siebert: Towards Gromov-Witten invariants on general symplectic manifolds Confirmed or probable participants ================================== S. Altinok, E. Amerik, Y. Amnon, C. Anand, C. Arezzo, C. Bartocci, I. Bauer, V. Batyrev, A. Beauville, K. Behrend, M. Beltrametti, M. Boggi, L. Bonavero, S. Bradlow, L. Brambila Paz, G. Brown, R. Brussee, M. Caibar, L. Caporaso, F. Catanese, D. Chatterjee, L. Chiantini, C. Ciliberto, M.C. Ciocci, H. Clemens, A. Collino, A. Conte, M. Coppens, A. Corti, S. Cynk, R. Dijkgraaf, I. Dolgachev, R. Donagi, S.K. Donaldson, M. Ebihara, L. Ein, Ph. Eyssidieux, C. Faber, R. Fahlaoui, B. Fantechi, M. Franciosi, P. Frediani, M. Fryers, O. Garcia-Prada, A. Gathmann, E. Getzler, M. Gizatulin, L. Goettsche, R. Goto, Y. Goto, A. Grassi, A. Greenspoon, V. Gritzenko, M. Gross, P. Gurrola, J. van Hamel, F. Hidaka, R. Hinchcliffe, N.J. Hitchin, K. Hulek, Y. Ito, J.D.S. Jones, Y. Kachi, C. Kahn, Yu. Kawamata, S. Keel, F. Kirwan, A. Klyachko, M. Kobayashi, A. Kontogeorgis, M. Kontsevich, S. Kosarew, S. Kovacs, P. Kronheimer, O. Kuechle, A. Lanteri, R. Laterveer, M. Lehn, W-P. Li, M. Loenne, A. Loi, E. Looijenga, A. Lopez, M. Luebke, M. Manetti, A. Manfredini, L. Manivel, J. McKernan, E. Markman, D. Markushevich, D. Matushita, G. Megyesi, M. Mendes-Lopes, E. Mezzetti, M. Micallef, D. Mond, D. Morrison, S. Mueller-Stach, S. Mukai, I. Nakamura, K. O'Grady, K. Oh, K. Ohba, K. Ono, F. Pablos Romo, R. Paoletti, K. Paranjape, R. Pardini, C. Peters, V. Pidstrigach, M. Pikaart, F.J. Plaza, H. Pullen, J. Rawnsley, M. Reid, M. Rossi, B. Russo, T. Sageaux, D. Salamon, G.K. Sankaran, C. Schmerling, S. Schroer, C. Schuhmann, J.-P. Serre, N. Shepherd-Barron, T. Shioda, B. Siebert, A. Small, I. Smith, J. Spandaw, P. Supino, E. Szabo, S.G. Tankeev, C. Taylor, M. Teixidor, J. Terilla, R. Thomas, M. Tomari, M. Tripolitaki, C. Turrini, A. Tyurin, Y. Umezu, G. Valli, C. van Enckevort, H. Verrill, S. Vidussi, A. Vin~a, A. Vistoli, C. Voisin, P.M.H. Wilson, J. Wisniewski, Jon Woolf, L. Wotzlaw, G. Xu, Yu. Zarhin, J. Zintl ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Concluding workshop =================== Mon 22nd -- Sat 27th Jul 1996 Although the pace of this workshop will be somewhat less hectic than the preceding EuroConference, there will be 2 or 3 seminars every day and a number of social activities. I am calling on volunteers to give talks. In addition, there will be many opportunities for research in small groups. Confirmed or probable participants ================================== C. Anand, R.N. Barlow, C. Bartocci, I. Bauer, M. Beltrametti, F. Catanese, A. Corti, L. Ein, M. Franciosi, R. Goto, F. Hidaka, S. Ishii, Y. Ito, J.D.S. Jones, A. Klyachko, M. Kobayashi, S. Kosarew, W-P. Li, D. Matushita, M. Mendes-Lopes, M. Micallef, D. Mond, S. Mukai, I. Nakamura, V.V. Nikulin, K. Oh, K. Ohba, K. Ono, K. Paranjape, C. Peters, V. Pidstrigach, J. Rawnsley, M. Reid, B. Russo, D. Salamon, T. Shioda, P. Supino, M. Tomari, A. Tyurin, Y. Umezu, H. Verrill, S. Vidussi, C. Voisin, P.M.H. Wilson, J. Wisniewski, Yu. Zarhin Mon 22nd lectures 12:00 2:00 4:00 6:00 Pub visit Tue 23rd lectures 9:30 11:30 free afternoon Wed 24th lectures 12:00 2:00 4:00 6:00 Buffet dinner (alcoholic) Thu 25th lectures 9:30 11:30 free afternoon (at Stratford: Troilus and Cressida) Fri 26th 12:00 2:00 4:00 6:00 Barbeque and amateur concert (bring your own instruments) Sat 27th 9:30 11:30 free afternoon (at Stratford: Macbeth) Probable speakers ================= Chris Anand: Fabrizio Catanese: Alessio Corti: Larry Ein: Shihoko Ishii: Yukari Ito/Iku Nakamura: Sasha Klyachko: Masanori Kobayashi: Shigeru Mukai: Slava Nikulin: Kapil Paranjape: Miles Reid: Graded rings over K3s (II) Tetsuji Shioda: Claire Voisin: Pelham Wilson: