Workshop: Moonshine


Schedule

Monday, September 10, 2018

09:00 - 9:30 Registration
09:30 - 10:30 Don Zagier
Constructing mock modular forms with a given shadow
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee / Tea Break
11:00 - 12:00 Sameer Murthy
Mock modular forms as torus integrals
12:00 - 13:00 Daniel Grumiller
Aspects of chiral gravity and AdS3/log CFT2
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch break
14:30 - 15:30 Michael H. Mertens
Moonshine in weight 3/2
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee / Tea Break
16:00 - 17:00 Yingkun Li
Mock modular forms of small weights
17:00 - 19:00 Welcome Reception at the ESI

Tuesday, September 11, 2018

09:30 - 10:30 Justin David
Applications of moonshine symmetry in string compactifications and black holes
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee / Tea Break
11:00 - 12:00 Abhishek Chowdhury
Calabi-Yau manifolds and sporadic groups
12:00 - 13:00 Max Zimet
Umbral Moonshine and String Duality
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch break
14:30 - 14:45 Maria Schimpf
M24 Moonshine in IIA and IIB string theory
14:45 - 15:00 Aradhita Chattopadhyaya
Black hole degeneracies from Mathieu moonshine
15:00 - 15:15 Andreas Banlaki
Gromow-Witten-Invariants and Moonshine
15:15 - 15:30 Brandon Rayhaun
Skew-holomorphic moonshine
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee / Tea Break
16:00 - 16:15 Vassilis Anagiannis
A module for a case of umbral moonshine
16:15 - 16:30 Valentin Reys
Mixed mock modular forms and BPS black hole entropy
16:30 - 16:45 Abhiram Mamandur Kidambi
Exact entropy and Rademacher series for orbifolded BPS black holes

Wednesday, September 12, 2018

09:30 - 10:30 Nils Scheithauer
Generalised deep holes in the vertex operator algebra associated with the Leech lattice
10:30 - 10:45 Coffee / Tea Break
10:45 - 11:00 Victor Aricheta
Supersingular elliptic curves and moonshine
11:00 - 11:15 Lea Beneish
Quasimodular moonshine and arithmetic connections
11:15 - 11:30 Sam Fearn
A supersymmetric index for a class of 2d sigma models with large N=4 superconformal symmetry
11:30 - 11:45 Thomas Gemünden
Orbifolds of Lattice Vertex Operator Algebras at d=48 and 72
11:45 - 12:00 Coffee / Tea Break
12:00 - 12:15 Fabian Kertels
Characterizing Borcherds-Kac-Moody algebras
12:15 - 12:30 Caner Nazaroglu
Indefinite Theta Series and Applications
12:30 - 12:45 Rajesh Gupta
Squashed Toric Manifolds and Mock Modular Forms
12:45 - 13:00 Wolfgang Riedler
Global sections of the chiral de Rham complex on Enriques surfaces
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch break and free afternoon

Thursday, September 13, 2018

09:30 - 10:30 Boris Pioline
BPS black holes, wall-crossing and mock modularity of higher depth I
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee / Tea Break
11:00 - 12:00 Sergey Alexandrov
BPS black holes, wall-crossing and mock modularity of higher depth II
12:00 - 13:00 Scott Carnahan
More Modular Moonshine
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch break
14:30 - 15:30 Bailin Song
Matheiu moonshine and K3 surfaces
15:30 - 15:45 Coffee / Tea Break
15:45 - 16:45 Thomas Creutzig
The moonshine module and friends

Friday, September 14, 2018

09:30 - 10:30 Jens Funke
Indefinite theta series
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee / Tea Break
11:00 - 12:00 Roberto Volpato
Superstrings and BKM (super-)algebras
12:00 - 13:00 Albrecht Klemm
Periods and quasiperiods of modular forms and D-brane masses of the quintic
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch break and free afternoon