Workshop: Warwick, 20 - 25 September, 1999

Modular Invariants, Operator Algebras and Quotient Singularities

Scientific committee: 
David E Evans (Cardiff)
Yasuyuki Kawahigashi (Tokyo)
Iku Nakamura (Hokkaido)
Miles Reid (Warwick)

Mon. 20/9	Morning	registration, coffee
	14:00	Terry Gannon
		An introduction to modular invariants
	15:30	Miles Reid
		Quotient singularities
	17:00	Yasuyuki Kawahigashi
		An introduction to subfactors
Tue. 21/9	10:00	Hiraku Nakajima
		Quiver varieties
	12:00	David Evans
		Modular invariants and subfactors I
	14:00	Paul Pearce
		Boundary conformal field theories, ADE classification and generalizations I
	16:00	Iku Nakamura
		Hilbert scheme of G-orbits and representations of G
	17:30	Q&A session
Wed. 22/9	10:00	Jens Bockenhauer
		Modular invariants and subfactors II
	12:00	Yukari Ito
		Crepant resolution and the McKay correspondence
	14:00	Jean-Bernard Zuber
		Boundary conformal field theories, ADE classification and generalizations II
	16:00	Tom Bridgeland
		McKay correspondence via Fourier-Mukai transformations
Thu. 23/9	9:30	Terry Gannon
		A conjectured list of all but finitely many Kac-Moody modular invariants
	10:45	Feng Xu
		Algebraic coset conformal field theory
	12:00	Victor Batyrev
		Vertex algebras and mirror symmetry
Fri. 24/9	10:00	Vladimir Baranovsky
		Moduli spaces and convolution algebras
	12:00	Peter Bouwknegt
		Universal chiral partition functions
	14:00	Jurgen Fuchs
		Chiral blocks, simple currents and extensions
	15:30	Alastair King
		Pre-projective algebras
	17:00	John Graham
		Temperley-Lieb algebras of types A, D and E
Sat. 25/9	9:30	Valentina Petkova
		Boundary conformal field theories, ADE classification and generalizations III
	10:45	Philippe Ruelle
		Fermat curves and SU(3) modular invariants
	12:00	John McKay
		ADE, old results and new challenges