Moonshine - the First Quarter Century and Beyond.
A Workshop on the Moonshine Conjectures and Vertex Algebras
5 to 13 July 2004, Edinburgh
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The meeting will start first thing on the morning of Monday 5 July and finish in the afternoon of Tuesday 13 July.
Outline timetable
All lectures (with the exception of the Spitalfields Day) will beheld in lecture theatre III of the main campus of Heriot-Watt University. Refreshments and lunch will be served outside the lecture theatres.
| Sunday 4 July | |
| from 18.30 | Registration and Buffet Reception in the College Lounge |
Sunday 4 | Monday 5 | Tuesday 6 | Wednesday 7 | Thursday 8 | Friday 9 | Saturday 10 | Monday 12 | Tuesday 13 | Return to top of page
| Monday 5 July | |
| 0915-1000 | Registration for those unable to register on 4 July |
| 1000-1015 | Welcome |
| 1015-1115 |
John Conway The Moonshine problem |
| 1145-1245 |
Robert Griess Construction of the Monster |
| 1430-1530 |
Arne Meurman FLM construction and the McKay-Thompson conjecture (I) |
| 1600-1700 |
Geoff Mason Rational orbifold models: past, present and future |
Sunday 4 | Monday 5 | Tuesday 6 | Wednesday 7 | Thursday 8 | Friday 9 | Saturday 10 | Monday 12 | Tuesday 13 | Return to top of page
| Tuesday 6 July | |
| 0915-1015 |
Arne Meurman FLM construction and the McKay-Thompson conjecture (II) |
| 1015-1115 |
Elizabth Jurisich Borcherds's proof of the Conway-Norton conjecture (I) |
| 1145-1245 |
Charles Thomas Is there a pattern behind the cohomology of the 26 sporadic simple groups? |
| 1430-1530 |
Haisheng Li Constructions of vertex operator algebras and their modules |
| 1600-1700 |
Chongying Dong Orbifolds and generalised Moonshine |
Sunday 4 | Monday 5 | Tuesday 6 | Wednesday 7 | Thursday 8 | Friday 9 | Saturday 10 | Monday 12 | Tuesday 13 | Return to top of page
| Wednesday 7 July | |
| 0915-1015 |
Robert Griess Relations between finite groups and vertex operator algebras |
| 1015-1115 |
Elizabeth Jurisich Borcherds's proof of the Conway-Norton conjecture (II) |
| 1145-1245 |
Terry Gannon title tba |
| 1430-1530 |
Gerald Hoehn Generalized Moonshine for the baby monster |
| 1600-1700 |
John Duncan Lattice free Moonshine for $Co_1$ |
Sunday 4 | Monday 5 | Tuesday 6 | Wednesday 7 | Thursday 8 | Friday 9 | Saturday 10 | Monday 12 | Tuesday 13 | Return to top of page
| Thursday 8 July | |
| 0915-1015 |
Jan Bruinier Borcherds products and Hilbert modular surfaces |
| 1015-1115 |
Chongying Dong Permutation orbifolds and Moonshine |
| 1145-1245 |
Antun Milas Virasoro vertex operator algebras |
| 1400-1700 | Free afternoon |
Sunday 4 | Monday 5 | Tuesday 6 | Wednesday 7 | Thursday 8 | Friday 9 | Saturday 10 | Monday 12 | Tuesday 13 | Return to top of page
| Friday 9 July | |
| 0915-1015 |
Masahiko Miyamoto Involutions and the structure of the Moonshine module |
| 1015-1115 |
Atsushi Matsuo title tba |
| 1145-1245 |
Katrin Wendland Friendly giant meets point-like instantons? On a new conjecture by John McKay |
| 1430-1530 |
Simon Norton Irrational Moonshine |
| 1600-1700 |
Benjamin Doyon Twisted modules for vertex operator algebras |
Sunday 4 | Monday 5 | Tuesday 6 | Wednesday 7 | Thursday 8 | Friday 9 | Saturday 10 | Monday 12 | Tuesday 13 | Return to top of page
| Saturday 10
July |
Spitalfields Day, to be held at the William Robertson Building, George Square, Edinburgh. This day of talks is open to everyone. The meeting will be held in central Edinburgh, in room G.08 (also signposted as Lecture Theatre 8) of the William Robertson Building. Refreshments and lunch will be served in the foyer outside the room. |
| 1100-1130 | Coffee |
| 1130-1230 |
Robert Wilson Explaining the Moonshine recursions: vertex algebras and free Lie algebras |
| 1230-1330 | Lunch |
| 1330-1430 |
Geoff Mason Vertex operators and arithmetic: how a single photon illuminates number theory |
| 1430-1530 |
John Conway Symmetry in space |
| 1530-1600 | Tea |
Sunday 4 | Monday 5 | Tuesday 6 | Wednesday 7 | Thursday 8 | Friday 9 | Saturday 10 | Monday 12 | Tuesday 13 | Return to top of page
| Monday 12 July | |
| 0915-1015 |
Yi-Zhi Huang Tensor product theory (I) |
| 1015-1115 |
Jeff Harvey D-brane spectrum in a string theory with monster symmetry |
| 1145-1245 |
Alex Ryba Modular Moonshine |
| 1430-1530 |
Peter Bantay 2D group theory and Moonshine |
| 1600-1700 |
Nils Scheithauer Automorphic forms related to Conway's group |
| 2000 | Conference Dinner |
Sunday 4 | Monday 5 | Tuesday 6 | Wednesday 7 | Thursday 8 | Friday 9 | Saturday 10 | Monday 12 | Tuesday 13 | Return to top of page
| Tuesday 13 July | |
| 0915-1015 |
Masahiko Miyamoto Automorphisms of lattices and VOAs |
| 1015-1115 |
Yi-Zhi Huang Tensor product theory (II) |
| 1145-1245 |
Chris Cummins Congruence subgroups of small genus |
| 1430-1530 |
Geoffrey Buhl title tba |
| 1600-1700 |
John McKay A new perspective - and outstanding problems |
Sunday 4 | Monday 5 | Tuesday 6 | Wednesday 7 | Thursday 8 | Friday 9 | Saturday 10 | Monday 12 | Tuesday 13 | Return to top of page
PARTICIPANTS
30 June 2004
| Name | Institution |
| Baker, Andrew | Glasgow University |
| Bantay, Peter | Eötvös Loránd University |
| Bray, John | University of Birmingham |
| Bruinier, Jan | University of Köln |
| Buhl, Geoffrey | Rutgers University |
| Carter, Roger | University of Warwick |
| Conway, John | University of Princeton |
| Cummins, Chris | Concordia University |
| Dong, Chongying | University of California at Santa Cruz |
| Doyon, Benjamin | Rutgers University |
| du Sautoy, Marcus | University of Oxford |
| Duncan, John | Yale University |
| Feingold, Alex | State University of New York, Binghampton |
| Frumkin, Avital | Tel Aviv University |
| Gannon, Terry | University of Alberta |
| Gordon, Iain | University of Glasgow |
| Griess, Robert L | University of Michigan |
| Harada, Koichiro | Ohio State University |
| Harvey, Jeff | University of Chicago |
| Höhn, Gerald | Heidelberg/Kansas State |
| Holmes, Beth | University of Birmingham |
| Huang, Yi-Zhi | Rutgers University |
| Ibukiyama, Tomoyoshi | Osaka University |
| Ivanov, A A | Imperial College |
| Jurisich, Elizabeth | College of Charleston |
| Lam, Ching Hung | National Cheng Kung University |
| Lepowsky, Jim | Rutgers University |
| Li, Haisheng | Rutgers University |
| Mason, Geoff | University of California at Santa Cruz |
| Matsuo, Atsushi | University of Tokyo |
| McKay, John | Concordia University |
| Meurman, Arne | Lund University |
| Milas, Antun | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
| Miyamoto, Masahiko | University of Tsukuba |
| Morava, Jack | Johns Hopkins University |
| Norton, Simon | University of Cambridge |
| Ogg, Andrew | University of California at Berkeley |
| Olive, David | University of Wales Swansea |
| Parker, Chris | University of Birmingham |
| Ray, Urmie | Université de Reims |
| Rosellen, Markus | Stockholm University |
| Ryba, Alexander | CUNY |
| Scheithauer, Nils | University of Heidelberg |
| Sebbar, Abdellah | University of Ottawa |
| Shimakura, Hiroki | University of Tokyo |
| Tarzi, Sam | Queen Mary, University of London |
| Thomas, Charles | University of Cambridge |
| Tuite, Michael | University of Galway |
| Wendland, Katrin | University of Warwick |
| Wilson, Robert A. | University of Birmingham |
| Wilson, Robert | Rutgers University |
| Yamauchi, Hiroshi | University of Tokyo |
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