Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH TRAINING GROUP ARITHMETIC AND GEOMETRY

Intensive Courses 2008

1. Intensive Course

• was held within the scope of the Workshop:
  
  Number Theory Days 2008
  which took place at the ETH Zurich

Date

• April 17.-18, 2008
  
  
  

Speakers

• Bax Edixhoven (Univ. Leiden): Computing the coefficients of a modular form and related Diophantine problems, Part I
  
• J.-M. Couveignes (Univ. Toulouse): Computing the coefficients of a modular form and related Diophantine problems, Part II
  
• D. Masser (Univ. Basel): Torsion points and families of elliptic curves
  
• A. Huber (Univ. Leipzig): A p-adic Borel regulator
  
• M. Einsiedler (Univ. Ohio): Spectral gap and effective equidistribution
  
  
  
  
  

2. Intensive Course

was given within the scope of the workshop:

North German Algebraic Geometry Seminar 2008

which took place at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin: May 15-16, 2008

Speakers:

• Lucia Caporaso (Univ. Rom): Brill-Noether theory of stable curves
• Hélène Esnault (Univ. Essen): Some aspects of the motivic and etale fundamental groups
• Ulrich Görtz (Univ. Bonn): Siegel modular varieties with Iwahori level structure
• Remke Kloostermann (Univ. Hannover): The Mordell-Weil group of elliptic threefolds
• Damiano Testa (Univ. Bremen): Cox rings of del Pezzo surfaces
• Yuri Tschinkel (New York Univ./Göttingen): A Torelli theorem for curves over finite fields
• Alessandro Verra (Univ. Rom): On the finiteness of the theta map for SU(r,0)
• Eckart Viehweg (Univ. Essen): Curves in moduli spaces
  




3. Intensive Course

 

was given within the scope of the workshop:

Workshop on Symplectic Field Theory III

which took place at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin: July 21- 25, 2008
(precourse: July 19-20)


Organisers: Prof. K. Mohnke (HU Berlin), Prof. K. Cieliebak (LMU München), Prof. M. Schwarz (Univ. Leipzig)


Main lectures: July 21-25, 2008

- lecture series by Alexander Givental (Berkeley) on Loop space formalism in Gromov-Witten theory.
- other contributions by Jeff Brown, Tom Coates*, Hiroshi Iritani*, Todor Milanov, Constantin Teleman, Arkady Vaintrob* (* = to be confirmed)


Precourse : July 19-20, 2008

- Symplectic torus actions, Slava Matveyev (Universität Leipzig).
- Quantum cohomology, Chris Wendl (ETH Zürich).
- Deligne-Mumford spaces and KdV hierarchy, Kai Cieliebak (LMU München)

 

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