Moduli on Chestnut Hill
Moduli on Chestnut Hill
Melody Chan (Brown University)
Olivia Dumitrescu (Central Michigan University)
Yu-Wei Fan (University of California, Berkeley)
Yunfeng Jiang (University of Kansas)
Jesse Kass (University of South Carolina)
Carl Lian (Columbia University)
Motohico Mulase (University of California, Davis)
Jingchen Niu (University of Arizona)
Ritvik Ramkumar (University of California, Berkeley)
Nicola Tarasca (Virginia Commonwealth University)
Rachel Webb (University of Michigan)
Dawei Chen and Qile Chen (Boston College)
Please find the abstracts here.
All lectures will be held at Fulton Hall 511, see the interactive BC campus map. For parking and public transportation, see the visitor info.
For lunch, Corcoran Commons (campus dining hall) is open, and El Pelon / Crazy Dough's Pizza (Brighton branches) are also within walking distance. For dinner, there are several restaurants near the AC hotel, and more options can be found in Washington Square (about 20 minute walk from the hotel).
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Thursday, March 5
9-9:30: Registration
9:30-10:30: Melody Chan: The S_n-equivariant top-weight Euler characteristic of M_{g,n}
10:30-11: Coffee Break
11-12: Carl Lian: Quasi-modularity of d-elliptic loci on moduli spaces of curves
12-1:30: Lunch
1:30-2:30: Ritvik Ramkumar: On the tangent space to the Hilbert scheme of points in P^3
2:30-3: Coffee Break
3-4:30: Short Presentations
Friday, March 6
9:30-10:30: Nicola Tarasca: Vertex algebras of CohFT-type
10:30-11: Coffee Break
11-12: Jesse Kass: How to count curves arithmetically
12-1:30: Lunch
1:30-2:30: Jingchen Niu: A theory of stacks with twisted fields and resolution of moduli of stable maps
2:30-3: Coffee Break
3-4: Rachel Webb: Virtual cycle on the moduli space of maps to a complete intersection
4:15-5:15: Yunfeng Jiang: Twisted Vafa-Witten invariants and the S-duality conjecture
Saturday, March 7
9:30-10:30: Yu-Wei Fan: New rational cubic fourfolds arising from Cremona transformations
10:30-10:45: Coffee Break
10:45-11:45: Olivia Dumitrescu: Quantum curves and opers​
12-1: Motohico Mulase: Conformal limit of Gaiotto and holomorphic Lagrangian geometry
This workshop is partially supported by the National Science Foundation.