Mathematische Arbeitstagung 2015

The Arbeitstagung of 2015 will have the general theme

Counting problems on moduli spaces

including such topics as Hurwitz counting problems for coverings, computations of volumes and other combinatorial invariants of moduli spaces of curves and of flat surfaces, Siegel-Veech constants, Gromov-Witten numbers, topological recursion, or dessins d'enfants. There will be mini-courses and research lectures by invited speakers including Alex Eskin, Motohico Mulase, Rahul Pandharipande, Richard Thomas, and Anton Zorich. The other lectures will be determined in the traditional way by open discussion during the meeting.

 Program

Opening lecture

Richard Thomas: The MNOP conjecture

Minicourses

Alex Eskin: Covers of Elliptic curves and quasimodular forms

Motohico Mulase: The topological recursion -- an inductive mechanism of counting on the moduli of curves

Raul Pandharipande: Cycles on the moduli space of curves

Anton Zorich: Volumes of moduli spaces in counting simple closed geodesics on flat surfaces, and in measuring diffusion in periodic billiards

Program and abstracts

Social events

Sunday, June 28, 19:00-22:00h: Rector's recpeption, University Club Bonn, Konviktstrasse 9
Tuesday, June 30, 13:00-19:00h: Boat trip on the Rhine

You have to register in order to participate in the social events.

TIMETABLE 

All lectures will take place at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics.

Map of the conference venues

Registration

To register please use this registration webform. There is no registration fee. For any further inquiries please send an email to AT2015@mpim-bonn.mpg.de.

Financial support

Limited financial support is available. If you need support, you can add your request on the registration webform with a brief justification. Requests for financial support will have to be made by April 19.

Social events

There will be a reception in the evening of Sunday, June 28 at the University Club. There will also be the traditional boat trip on the Rhine in the afternoon of Tuesday, June 30. Participants who would like to attend these events are asked to state this on the registration webform.

Hotel reservations

If you would like us to make a hotel reservation for you, please state this on the registration webform. We can only honor requests for hotel reservations made by May 26. If you would like to make a hotel reservation by yourself you will find a list of hotels here.

The tradition of the Arbeitstagung

The Mathematische Arbeitstagung, which was started by Friedrich Hirzebruch in 1957, took place nearly every year until his retirement in 1995, and has continued bi-annually since then. Its special feature has been the unusual form of organization, with most of the speakers and topics being chosen by popular acclaim during the meeting according to the most recent and exciting developments in mathematics. Because of the changing nature of the mathematical world, we are now going to try a somewhat modified format, with some invited speakers and focusing each time on a specific theme of current interest. But we plan to keep the other traditions like the University party and the boat trip on the Rhine.

By combining introductory courses in the style of a summer school with lectures on current research we would like to bring together researchers on all levels. We encourage in particular doctoral students and postdocs to participate, and will also be able to offer limited financial support.

Follow this link to register for the Arbeitstagung 2015

Here you can find a list of participants.