Organizers
Gavril Farkas and Jürg Kramer
This conference is aimed at highlighting interactions between modular aspects in algebraic geometry and the field of modular forms.
Speakers
A. Beauville, J.B. Bost, I. Coskun, C. Faber, G. van der Geer, B. van Geemen, V. Gritsenko,
S. Grushevsky, K. Hulek, U. Kühn, B. Moonen, S. Mukai, R. Salvati Manni, G. Sankaran,
J. Schwermer, D. Smyth, E. Ullmo, R. Vakil, A. Verra, C. Voisin, R. Weissauer
Venue
All the talks will take place in the main building of Humboldt University in Weierstrass Hörsaal, Room 3038, Unter den Linden 6, Berlin. More details about the venue and the city of Berlin can be found here.
The conference starts of Monday, August 24 at 2:00 pm and ends on Friday August 28 at 5:00 pm. A conference dinner takes place of Thursday 27.08, 8:00 pm
at the traditional German restaurant "Zur letzten Instanz".
BMS Summer School
A preparatory Summer School for graduate students and post-docs takes place between 21 and 24 August, 2009. The following short courses, each consisting of 3 lectures, will be given:
J.B. Bost: Formal, analytic, and algebraic curves in algebraic varieties over number fields
C. Faber: Cohomology of moduli spaces of curves
G. van der Geer: Modular forms and moduli spaces
D. Smyth: Birational geometry of the moduli space of curves
The first lecture is on Friday August 21, at 1:00 pm. The school ends on Monday August 24, before lunch. More details: www.math-berlin.de/summerschool
We offer support to find accommodation and we provide limited financial support for travel and accommodation costs for young researchers and graduate students. The deadline for application for financial support has passed. There will be no registration fee to attend the school or the conference.
