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Workshop on Arithmetic, Geometry and Physics around Calabi-Yau Varieties and Mirror Symmetry - July 23-29, 2001

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
Monday July 23
9:00-9:30 Opening Ceremony and information session
Welcome by K. Davidson, Director
9:30-10:30 S. -T. Yau, Harvard University
Mirror Principle (click for PDF file)
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:00 James D. Lewis, University of Alberta
Regulators of higher Chow cycles on Calabi-Yau varieties
12:00-2:00 Lunch Break
2:00-3:00 V. Batyrev, University of Tuebingen
Introduction to toric methods in mirror symmetry
3:00-3:30 Coffee Break
3:30-4:30 R. Schimmrigk, Georgia Southwestern University
Arithmetic aspects of Calabi-Yau varieties and conformal field theory
5:00-6:00 C. Doran, Columbia University
Variation of the mirror map and algebro-geometric solutions to Garnier systems
Tuesday July 24
9:30-10:30 S. Hosono, University of Tokyo
Introduction to GKZ hypergeometric system
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:00 X. de la Ossa, Oxford University
Counting Fp-rational points for Calabi-Yau manifolds
12:00-2:00 Lunch Break
2:00-3:00 P. Candelas, Oxford University
Observations on the form of the local L-function for the quintic threefold
3:00-3:30 Coffee Break
3:30-4:30 Y. Goto, Hokkaido University of Education
K3 surfaces over finite fields with symplectic group actions
5:00-6:00 F. Rodriguez Villegas, University of Texas at Austin
Arithmetic of some hypergeometric threefolds
6:00 The Fields Institute Reception
Wednesday July 25
9:30-10:30 S. Müller-Stach, GHS Essen
Picard-Fuchs equations and algebraic K-theory
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:00 I. Dolgachev, University of Michigan
Calabi-Yau manifolds and Hermitian bounded domains
12:00-2:00 Lunch Break
2:00-3:00 S. Tankeev, Vladimir State University
On the Brauer group of a Calabi-Yau variety
3:00-3:30 Coffee Break
3:30-4:30 M. Saito, Kobe University
Relative Lefschetz action and BPS state counting
5:00-6:00 P. Berglund, University of Southern California
On hybrid phases in the extended Kahler moduli space of Calabi-Yau threefolds
Thursday July 26
9:30-10:30 S. Hosono, University of Tokyo
Monodromy transforms of hypergeometric series in (local) mirror symmetry
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:00 V. Batyrev, University of Tuebingen
Local mirror symmetry and McKay correspondence
12:10-1:10 A. Todorov, UC Santa Cruz
Moduli of Calabi-Yau manifolds
Free Afternoon
Friday July 27
9:30-10:30 B. Lian, Brandeis University
Monodromy of Calabi-Yau varieties
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:00 J. Stienstra, University of Utrecht
Ordinary Calabi-Yau threefolds
12:00-2:00 Lunch Break
2:00-3:00 N. Yui, Queen's University
The modularity of Calabi-Yau varieties
3:00-3:30 Coffee Break
3:30-4:30 H. Verrill, University of Hannover
Intermediate Jacobians of certain rigid Calabi-Yau threefolds
5:00-6:00 T. Ito, University of Tokyo
Birational smooth minimal models have equal Hodge numbers in all dimensions
Saturday July 28
9:30-10:30 Pedro Luis del Angel, CIMAT
On indecomposable higher cycles in a product of hyperelliptic curves
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:00 A. Collino, University of Torino
Indecomposable higher Chow cycles on hypersurfaces and on Jacobians
12:00-2:00 Lunch Break
2:00-3:00 R. Schimmrigk, Georgia Southwestern University
Black hole attractor varieties and complex multiplication
3:00-3:30 Coffee Break
3:30-4:30 M. Saito, Kobe University
Deformations of Okamoto-Painlev'e pairs and Painlev'e equations
5:00-6:00 TBA
Sunday July 29
9:30-10:30 Problem Session
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:00 Discussion on the Fields Proposal

Free Afternoon

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