FY2008 list of GCOE International Conferences
Conference Name Organizers Dates Venue Speaker Title
COE-COW Tokyo Y. Kawamata,
Miles Reid (Warwick)
 December
15 - 19, 2008
Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences, the University of Tokyo Caucher Birkar (Cambridge) Boundedness vs thresholds and flips
Gavin Brown (Kent) Tom and Jerry and Sarkisov links
Alvaro Nolla de Celis (Warwick) Dihedral groups and $G$-Hilb
Osamu Fujino (Nagoya) On log canonical flops
Klaus Hulek (Hannover) Calculating the Mordell-Weil rank of elliptic threefolds
Akira Ishii (Hiroshima) Dimer models and the special McKay correspondence
Yukari Ito (Nagoya) Existence of crepant resolutions
Ann-Sophie Kaloghiros (Cambridge) The defect of Fano $3$-folds
Yongnam Lee (Sogang Seoul) Log minimal model program for the moduli space of stable curves of low genus
Timothy Logvinenko (Liverpool) A derived approach to the geometric McKay correspondence
James McKernan (MIT) Batyrev’s conjecture
Yoshinori Namikawa (Kyoto) Induced nilpotent orbits and birational geometry
Keiji Oguiso (Keio Tokyo) Mordell-Weil groups of abelian fibered hyperkaehler manifolds and O'Grady's $10$-dimensional examples
Jongil Park (Seoul National) A new family of algebraic surfaces with $p_g = 0$ and $K^2 > 0$
Thomas Peternell (Bayreuth) Varieties with generically nef tangent bundles
Miles Reid (Warwick) Big key varieties for surfaces with $p_g = 1$, $K^2 = 2$ (according to Stephen Coughlan)
Hiromichi Takagi (Tokyo) $Q$-Fano $3$-folds and varieties of power sums
Yukinobu Toda (IPMU Tokyo and Oxford) Stability conditions and Donaldson-Thomas type invariants
Michael Wemyss (Bristol and Nagoya) McKay Correspondence for two dimensional rational surface
Workshop on
Motives - the 4th
Thomas
Geisser
 (USC),
 S. Kimura ,
K. Sato,
 A. Shiho ,
G. Yamashita (Nottingham)
 December
15-19, 2008
Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences, the University of Tokyo Paul Balmer(UCLA) Tensor triangular geometry
Eric Friedlander(USC) Algebraic cocycle spaces
Christian Haesemayer(UCLA) On the K-theory of singular varieties
K. hagihara (Tokyo Univ.) Motivic cohomology and the category DM (after Voevodsky)
Lars Hesselholt(Nagoya Univ.) The vanishing of negative K-groups in positive characteristic
Moritz Kerz(Universitat Regensburg) Kato's Hasse principle revisited
S. Kondo (Tokyo Univ.) Computing two motivic cohomology groups of a scheme over a finite field
Fabien Morel(Universitat Munchen) Introduction to $\pi_0(\A^1)$ and $\pi_1^{A^1}$, basic examples
$\pi_0^{A^1}$, cohomology invariants and Galois cohomology
$\pi_1^{A^1}$, $A^1$-h-cobordism and smooth varieties up to $A^1$-homotopy
Andreas Rosenschon(Univ. Munchen) K_1 of curves
Alexander Vishik(Univ. of Nottingham) Operations in Algebraic Cobordism
Charles Weibel(Rutgers Univ.) The proof of Bloch-Kato conjecture
Analytic Semigroups
and Related Topics
— on the occasion
of the centenary
of the birth of
Professor
Kôsaku Yosida
Y.Giga,
 S. jinboSapporo,
 A. yagi
(Osaka),
 M. Yamamoto
January
13-16, 2009
Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences, the University of Tokyo G. Simonett (Nashville, USA) On normal stability for nonlinear parabolic equations
Analytic semigroups, maximal regularity and nonlinear parabolic problems
S. Jimbo (Sapporo) Vortex motion in Ginzburg-Landau equation
H. Komatsu (Tokyo) The abstract Fatou theorem and the signal transmission on Thomson cables
A. McIntosh (Canberra, Australia) The Kato square root problem, and solvability of some elliptic PDE's with square integrable boundary data
S. Nakagiri (Kobe) Reachability and observability of reactor diffusion equations in chemical engineering-- An application of analytic semigroup
Y. Shibata (Tokyo) Maximal regularity for Navier-Stokes equations with some first order boundary condition
A. Yagi (Osaka) Finite-dimensional attractors for termite mound building model due to Brussels school
Arithmetic and Algebraic Geometry Related to Moduli Spaces  Gerard van der Geer (Amsterdam)
T. Katsura,
S. Kondo
(Nagoya),
T. Terasoma
January 19-23, 2009 Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences, the University of Tokyo G. van der Geer (Univ. Amsterdam) Local systems on moduli spaces and Siegel modular forms
I. Shimada (Hiroshima Univ.) On equisingular families of plane curves of degree 6
I. Nakamura (Hokkaido Univ.) Two canonical compactifications of moduli of abelian varieties
R. Laza (Univ. Michigan) The combinatorics and arthmetic of the degenerations of K3 surfaces
S. Grushevsky (Princeton Univ.) Singularities of the theta divisor
S. Morita (Univ. Tokyo) Moduli space of curves and representations of sympletic groups
T.Shioda (RIMS) Curves on Fermat surfaces revisited
K. Saito (IPMU) Patition functions for a discrete group
G. Faltings(MPI)  The isomorphism between Drinfeld- and Lubin- Tate-towers
K. Fujiwara(Nagoya Univ.) Compactifications of schemes and algebraic spaces
K. Kato(Kyoto Univ.) Spaces of SL(2)-orbits for C and for Qp
F. Kato(Kyoto Univ.) Artin-Schreier-Mumford curves
J. Keum(KIAS) Rational homology projective planes and Algebraic Montgomery-Yang Problem
K. Oguiso(Keio Univ.) On Enriques manifolds
A. Verra(Univ. Roma 3) Generic finiteness of the theta map for the moduli spaces of vector bundles on a curve
S. Harashita(IPMU) Generic Newton polygons of Ekedahl-Oort strata in the moduli of abelian varieties
N. Shepherd-Barron(Cambridge Univ.) Formulae for Jacobians and their theta functions
L. Illusie(Univ. Paris XI) On finite group actions in l-adic cohomology : traces and fixed points
Global COE Opening Symposium at Tokyo  Y. Kawahigashi,
Y. Kawamata,
T. Kobayashi,
T. Saito
January 30 (afternoon) - February 1,
 2009
Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences, the University of Tokyo Christopher D. HACON (Utah) Classification of Algebraic Varieties 
Heisuke HIRONAKA (JAMS) Resolution of singularities 
Vaughan F. R. JONES (Berkeley) Subfactors
Planar algebra 
NGÔ Bao Châu (IAS) Fundamental lemma and Hitchin fibration 
Wendelin WERNER (Paris-Sud) Some random evolutions of functions 
Complex Geometry Workshop
2009 Tokyo
S. Takayama February
 13-14, 2009
Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences, the University of Tokyo T. Ohsawa (Nagoya) L2 extendability from analytic subsets with singularities
A. Moriwaki (Kyoto) Arithmetic volume function
S. Boucksom (Paris) Equidistribution of points of small height
H. Tsuji (Tokyo) Global generation and weak semistability of the direct images of relative pluri log canonical bundles
B. Berndtsson (Goeteborg) A Bergman kernel proof of the Kawamata subadjunction, I
M. Paun (Nancy) A Bergman kernel proof of the Kawamata subadjunction, II
Workshop
"Industrial
Mathematics
and its Practice"
J. Noguchi,
H. Matano,
Y. Giga,
M. yamamoto
February
23-24, 2009
Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences, the University of Tokyo M.Yamamoto (Tokyo) Practice of Industrial Mathematics:Combination of Theories and Applications to the Real-world
Tan Yongji (Fudan Univ.) Study Group and Mathematical Problems in Industry
Jin Cheng (Fudan Univ.) The Mathematical Analysis of the Diffusion Process and its Applications
Tao Tang (Hong Kong Baptist Univ.) Convergence Analysis for Numerical Methods to Stochastic Hyperbolic Equations
Dietmar Hoemberg (Tech. Univ. of Berlin) Coupling of Process, Machine, and Work-piece in Production Processes -- a Challenge for Industrial Mathematics
GCOE Spring School on Representation Theory T. Kobayashi  March
12 - 17, 2009
Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences, the University of Tokyo Bernhard Krötz (Germany) Harish-Chandra modules
Salah Mehdi (France) Enright-Varadarajan modules and harmonic spinors 
Peter Trapa (USA) Special unipotent representations of real reductive groups 
Roger Zierau (USA) Dirac Cohomology