CMI Workshop:
K3's: Modular Forms, Moduli, and String Theory
March 20 – 23, 2008
In the past year, there has been a new interaction between the
Gromov-Witten theory (or topological string theory) of K3 surfaces and
Heegner divisors (or Noether-Lefschetz loci) on the moduli space of K3
surfaces. As a consquence, new results and many new conjectures have
appeared in the form of identities involving modular forms,
hypergeometric series, and K3 moduli on the one hand and the geometry
of these classical Noether-Lefschetz loci on the other. Our goal in the
workshop is to bring mathematicians from the various areas involved in
the subject together. A narrower goal is to make progress on this
circle of rather concrete conjectures.
Schedule
Thursday, March 20
Friday, March 21
Saturday, March 22
Sunday, March 23
Organizers
- James Carlson, CMI
- David Ellwood, CMI
- Davesh Maulik, CMI
- Rahul Pandharipande, Princeton University
Participants
- Kai Behrend, University of British Columbia
- Jim Bryan, University of British Columbia
- Ron Donagi, University of Pennsylvania
- Lothar Gottsche, ICTP
- Joe Harris, Harvard University
- Brendan Hassett, Rice University
- Albrecht Klemm, University of Wisconsin
- Conan Leung, The Institute of Mathematical Sciences
- Eduard Looijenga, Utrecht University
- Alina Marian, Institute of Advanced Study
- Greg Moore, Rutgers University
- Tony Pantev, University of Pennsylvania
- Emanuel Scheidegger, University of Eastern Piedmont
- Domingo Toledo< University of Utah
- Yuri Tschinkel, New York University
- Wei Zhang, Columbia
- Aleksey Zinger, State University of New York