Schedule, Notes/Handouts & Videos

Modern Moduli Theory February 23, 2009 - February 27, 2009

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Feb 23, 2009
Monday

09:30 AM - 10:30 AM

The top Chern class of the Hodge bundle.
Rahul Pandharipande (ETH Zurich)

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Rational curves on K3 surfaces and their higher-dimensional analogs
Brendan Hassett (Brown University)

02:00 PM - 03:00 PM

Modular compactifications of the moduli space of curves
David Smyth

Feb 24, 2009
Tuesday

09:30 AM - 10:30 AM

"The tropical vertex"
Mark Gross (University of Cambridge)

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Hall algebras and curve-counting
Tom Bridgeland (University of Sheffield)

01:30 PM - 02:30 PM

Stability conditions and Donaldson-Thomas type invariants
Yukinobu Toda (Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe )

03:00 PM - 04:00 PM

A theory of generalized Donaldson-Thomas invariants
Dominic Joyce (University of Oxford)

Feb 25, 2009
Wednesday

09:30 AM - 10:30 AM

"Intertia stack of M_{g,n}"
Barbara Fantechi (International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA/ISAS))

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

K-equivalence in Gromov--Witten theory
Yuan-Pin Lee

Feb 26, 2009
Thursday

09:30 AM - 10:30 AM

The Verlinde bundles in higher genus
Dragos Oprea (University of California, San Diego)

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

"Gromov-Witten theory on K3 surfaces
Davesh Maulik (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

02:00 PM - 03:00 PM

A remark on a conjecture of Hain and Looijenga
Carel Faber

Feb 27, 2009
Friday

09:30 AM - 10:30 AM

Log canonical implies Du Bois
János Kollár (Princeton University)

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Termination of flips
James McKernan (University of California, San Diego)

02:00 PM - 03:00 PM

Explicit compactifications of moduli spaces of Campedelli and Burniat surfaces
Valery Alexeev (University of Georgia)

04:00 PM - 05:00 PM

Kobayashi geodesics in A_g
Eckart Viehweg