Donu Arapura (Purdue University) A new class of surfaces with maximal Picard number.
general type, they are built from elliptic modular surfaces. If time permits, I will discuss some related things.
Paolo Aluffi (Florida State University) Segre classes of monomial schemes.
Segre classes, a key ingredient in Fulton-MacPherson intersection theory.
over a Newton polytope associated with the scheme.
Ludmil Katzarkov (University of Miami and Universität Wien) Categorical base loci and applications.
Abstract: In this talk we will introduce the notion of categorical base loci.
Examples and applications will be considered.
Chiu-Chu Melissa Liu (Columbia University) Gromov-Witten invariants of toric Calabi-Yau 3-orbifolds.
Abstract: The remodeling conjecture proposed by Bouchard-Klemm-Marino-Pasquetti relates Gromov-Witten invariants of a toric Calabi-Yau 3-manifold/3-orbifold to Eynard-Orantin invariants of the mirror curve of the toric Calabi-Yau 3-fold. In this talk, I will describe results on this conjecture based on joint work with Bohan Fang and Zhengyu Zong.
David R. Morrison (U C Santa Barbara) Some new tricks for good ol' SL(2,Z).
Madhav Nori (University of Chicago) Boundary behavior of the Teichmüller disc.
Abstract: A translation surface is a pair (C,\omega) where \omega is a holomorphic differential form on a compact Riemann surface C. Every point of the moduli of translation surfaces gives rise to a Teichmuller disc: a holomorphic map from the open unit ball to this moduli space. We ask whether this disc exists on compactificationa of the moduli space.
Rita Pardini (Università di Pisa) Bi/trielliptic curves of genus 2 and stable Godeaux surfaces.
is a stable surface with $K^2=\chi=1$).
varieties. This is joint work with E. Arbarello.