Sat March 19 - Sun March 20, 2011
Workshop on Algebraic Varieties
Fields Institute

Organized by James D. Lewis (Alberta) and Noriko Yui (Queen's)

If you are interested in giving a lecture (or lectures), please send email to one of us. Noriko Yui (yui@fields.utoronto.ca) James D. Lewis (lewisjd@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca) These weekend workshops are self-supporting workshops.

 

Saturday, March 19, 2011 (talk abstracts)
9:30 a.m.	Xi Chen, University of Alberta Picard-Fuchs Ideals and Normal Functions
10:30 a.m.	Greg Pearlstein, Michigan State University Normal functions and the Hodge conjecture
11:30 a.m.	Hector Pasten, Queen’s University Polynomials of degree n representing n-th powers
12:30 p.m.	Lunch
2:30 p.m.	Sheldon Joyner, University of Western Ontario The modular group and the Grothendieck-Teichmuller group
3:30 p.m.	Doug Haessig, University of Rochester On some results ofChevalley-Warning type
4:30 p.m.	Dermot McCarthy, Texas A & M University Hypergeometric Functions and the Number of Points on Algebraic Varieties over Finite Fields
6:00 p.m.	Workshop Dinner
Sunday, March 20, 2011 (talk abstracts)
9:30 a.m.	Yasuhiro Goto, Hokkaido University of Education at Hakodate Arithmetic of Calabi-Yau threefolds of Voisin and Borcea
10:30 a.m.	Andrew Harder, Queen’s University Period spaces of abelian surfaces and period spaces of K3 surfaces
11:30 a.m.	James Lewis, University of Alberta Arithmetic Normal Functions and Filtrations on Chow Groups
12:30 p.m.	Adam Sierakowski, The Fields Institute Purely infinite C¤-algebras arising from crossed products
Afternoon	Informal Discussions

 

 

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