Monday 20th September
Morning: registration, coffee
2:00 Terry Gannon: An introduction to modular invariants
3:30 Miles Reid: Quotient singularities
5:00 Yasuyuki Kawahigashi: An introduction to subfactors
Tuesday 21st September
10:00 Hiraku Nakajima: Quiver varieties
12:00 David Evans: Modular invariants and subfactors I
2:00 Jean-Bernard Zuber: Boundary conformal field theories, ADE classification and generalizations I
4:00 Iku Nakamura: Hilbert scheme of G-orbits and representations of G
5:30 possible Q&A session
buffet party in the math common room from 7:00
Wednesday 22nd September
10:00 Bockenhauer: Modular invariants and Subfactors II
12:00 Yukari Ito: Crepant resolution and the McKay correspondence
2:00 Paul Pearce: Boundary conformal field theories, ADE classification and generalizations II
4:00 Tom Bridgeland: (TBA Fourier Mukai ?)
Thursday 23rd September
9:30 Gannon: A conjectured list of all but finitely many Kac-Moody modular invariants
10:45 Feng Xu: Algebraic coset conformal field theory
12:00 Batyrev: Vertex algebras and mirror symmetry
free afternoon and evening (e.g. Midsummer night's dream at Stratford -- we can help organise transport, but see the box office directly about tickets)
Friday 24th September
approx 5 talks, say 10:00, 12:00, 2:00, 3:30, 5:00
Vladimir Baranovsky: TBA
P. Bouwknegt: Universal chiral partition functions
Juergen Fuchs: Chiral blocks, simple currents and extensions
7:00 Evening party in Mathematics Common Room
(or CBSO play Sibelius, Dutilleux, Mahler at Birmingham Symphony Hall)
Saturday 25th September
3 talks at 9:30, 10:45 and 12:00
Valentina Petkova: Boundary conformal field theories, ADE classification and generalizations III
(J. Graham): TBA
1:00 pub lunch
Other possible speakers:
Anda Degeratu: McKay correspondence via eta invariants
Dominic Joyce: TBA
John McKay: The ADE Dynkin diagrams: results and problems
Confirmed participants:
M. Asaeda (Penn State), V. Batyrev (Tuebbingen), F. Boca (Cardiff),
J. Boeckenhauer (Cardiff), P. Bouwknegt (Adelaide), T. Bridgeland
(Edinburgh), Roger Carter (Warwick), A. Coste (Orsay), A. Craw (Warwick),
A. Degeratu (MIT), J. Fuchs, T. Gannon (Alberta), G. Gonzalez-Sprinberg
(Grenoble), Satoshi Goto (Sophia Univ, Tokyo), J. Graham (Imperial),
M. Gross (Warwick), K. Hannabuss (Oxford), Y-H. He (MIT),
Y. Ito (Tokyo Metropolitan Univ), A. King (ICTP, Trieste),
J. McKay (Concordia, Montreal), T. Matsui (Kyushu), J. Moody (Warwick),
H. Nakajima (Kyoto Univ), R. Nest (Copenhagen), A. Paolucci (Torino),
P Pearce (Melbourne), V. Petkova (Sofia), P. Pinto (Cardiff), P. Ruelle
(Orsay), Dmitry Rumynin (Warwick), K-i. Shinoda (Sophia U., Tokyo),
Jun S. Song (MIT), S. Stratila (Bucharest), B. Szendroi (Warwick),
Bruce Westbury (Warwick), Feng Xu (Oklahoma), Jean-Bernard Zuber (Saclay)
British participants (expected some of the time):
Bill Crawley-Boevey (Leeds), Ian Grojnowski (DPMMS, Cambridge), N.J. Hitchin
(Oxford), D. Joyce (Oxford), Nick Shepherd-Barron (DPMMS, Cambridge),
P.M.H. Wilson (DPMMS, Cambridge)