International Conference on Vertex Operator Algebras and Related Areas

Talk Schedule
Updated on July 3, 2008
All talks will be in Williams Hall room 314.

July 7, Monday

1.
8:15am-8:30am: Greetings from Salvatore J. Catanzaro, Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences (ISU), and Professor George F. Seelinger, Chair of the Department of Mathematics (ISU).
2.
8:30am-9:20am: Exceptional VOAs and the Virasoro Algebra, Michael Tuite, National University of Ireland, Ireland.
3.
9:20am-9:30am: Ten-minute break.
4.
9:30am-10:20am: Representations of vertex operator algebras and finite braided tensor categories, Yi-Zhi Huang, Rutgers University, New Brunswick.
5.
10:20am-10:30am: Ten-minute break.
6.
10:30am-11:20am: C11, C2, and twisted representations, Terry Gannon, University of Alberta, Canada.
7.
11:20pm-11:30pm: Ten-minute break.
8.
11:30am-12:00pm: Uniformization of genus-zero and genus-one N=2 super-Riemann surfaces and implications for superconformal field theory, Katrina Barron, University of Notre Dame.

12:00pm-2:00pm: Noon Break.

9.
2:00pm-2:50pm: Andrews' analytic generalizations of the Roger-Ramanujan identities and certain representations of A1(1), Robert Wilson, Rutgers University, New Brunswick.
10.
2:50pm-3:00pm: Ten-minute break.
11.
3:00pm-3:50pm: Algebraic, geometric, and representation theory approaches to bases of affine quantum groups, Zongzhu Lin, Kansas State University.
12.
3:50pm-4:00pm: Ten-minute break.
13.
4:00pm-4:30pm: Vertex algebras of differential operators over algebraic groups, Minxian Zhu, Yale University.
14.
4:35pm-5:05pm: On Mckay's E7 and E6 observations, Ching Hung Lam, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan.
15.
5:10pm-5:40pm: Deformed W algebras and tableau description of Macdonald polynomials, Ayumu Hoshino, Sophia University, Japan.

July 8, Tuesday

1.
8:30am-9:20am: Orthogonal Representations of Hopf Algebras, Susan Montgomery, University of Southern California.
2.
9:20am-9:30am: Ten-minute break.
3.
9:30am-10:20am: Lie idempotents and renormalization in pQFT, Frederic Patras, Laboratoire J.-A. Dieudonné UMR 6621, CNRS, France.
4.
10:20am-10:30am: Ten-minute break.
5.
10:30am-11:00am: Trees, permutations, and bidendriform bialgebras, Loic Foissy, Universite de Reims, France.
6.
11:05am-11:35am: VL+-modules and weak Hopf algebras, Christopher Goff, University of the Pacific.
7.
11:40am-12:10pm: Congruence Subgroups and Generalized Frobenius-Schur Indicators, Siu-Hung Ng, Iowa State University.
12:10pm-2:00pm: Noon Break.

8.
2:00pm-2:50pm: Hopf algebras of rooted trees and the Hopf algebras of symmetric functions, Michael Hoffman, U. S. Naval Academy.
9.
2:50pm-3:00pm: Ten-minute break.
10.
3:00pm-3:50am: Hyperbolic Weyl groups and the four normed division algebras, Alex Feingold, Binghamton University.
11.
3:50pm-4:00pm: Ten-minute break.
12.
4:00pm-4:30pm: A free field realization of toriodal sln, Liz Jurisich, College of Charleston.
13.
4:35pm-5:05pm: Realizations of elliptic affine sl(2), Ben Cox, College of Charleston.
14.
5:10pm-5:40pm: New Perspectives on exponentiated derivations, the formal Taylor theorem and Faà di Bruno's formula, Thomas Robinson, Rutgers University, New Brunswick.

6:00pm-9:00pm: we will have a conference reception hosted by the ISU Mathematics Department. The reception will be in the Business Building atrium (lowest floor).

July 9, Wednesday

1.
8:30am-9:20am: Fermionic realization of some toroidal Lie algebras, Kailash Misra, North Carolina State University.
2.
9:20am-9:30am: Ten-minute break.
3.
9:30am-10:20am: On a class of infinite-dimensional Lie algebras related to semisimple Lie algebras, Vladimir Retakh, Rutgers University, New Brunswick.
4.
10:20am-10:30am: Ten-minute break.
5.
10:30am-11:00am: Extensions of weight modules of Lie algebras, Dimitar Grantcharov, San Jose State University.
6.
11:05am-11:35am: Two new results on spanning sets for vertex operator algebras and their quasimodules, Geoffrey Buhl, California State University Channel Islands.
7.
11:40am-12:30pm: Moonshine for Conway's group, Nils Scheithauer, University of Edinburgh, UK.
12:30pm-2:00pm: Noon Break.

8.
2:00pm-2:50pm: Logarithmic tensor product theory for vertex operator algebra modules, James Lepowsky, Rutgers University, New Brunswick.
9.
2:50pm-3:00pm: Ten-minute break.
10.
3:00pm-3:50am: Rational vertex operator algebras with central charge 1, Chongying Dong, University of California at Santa Cruz.
11.
3:50pm-4:00pm: Ten-minute break.
12.
4:00pm-4:50pm: Quantum Vertex Operator Algebras and Modules, Haisheng Li, Rutgers University, Camden.
13.
4:50pm-5:00pm: Ten-minute break.
14.
5:00pm-5:30pm: Triplet and super triplet vertex algebras, quantum groups and modular forms, Antun Milas, University of Albany.

July 10, Thursday

1.
8:30am-9:20am: On the transformation property of the Lie algebras associated with vertex operator algebras, Atsushi Matsuo, The University of Tokyo, Japan.
2.
9:20am-9:30am: Ten-minute break.
3.
9:30am-10:20am: W-algebras related to parafermion algebras, Hiromichi Yamada, Hitotsubashi University, Japan.
4.
10:20am-10:30am: Ten-minute break.
5.
10:30am-11:00am: Vertex-algebraic structure of certain modules for affine Lie algebras underlying recursions, Corina Calinescu, Ohio State University.
6.
11:05am-11:35am: A moonshine highest-weight vector for every cusp form?, Kate Hurley, Georgia Institute of Technology.
7.
11:40am-12:10pm: Invariant chiral differential operators, Andrew Linshaw, University of California at San Diego.
12:10pm-2:00pm: Noon Break.

8.
2:00pm-2:50pm: Generalized modular forms, Marvin Knopp, Temple University.
9.
2:50pm-3:00pm: Ten-minute break.
10.
3:00pm-3:50am: Generalized modular functions, their Fourier coefficients and vertex operator algebras, Winfried Kohnen, Heidelberg, Germany.
11.
3:50pm-4:00pm: Ten-minute break.
12.
4:00pm-4:30pm: On the coefficients of modular forms for noncongruence subgroups, Ling Long, Iowa State University.
13.
4:35pm-5:05pm: On products of two Eisenstein series and spaces of cusp forms, Yves Martin, University of Chile, Chile.

5:15pm-5:25pm: Conference Photo taken at the front door of Williams Hall.
6:30pm-9:00pm: Banquet Dinner to Celebrate Professor Geoffrey Mason's 60th Birthday at Biaggi's (1501 N Veterans Pky, Bloomington, IL 61704. About three blocks south of the Signature Inn.)

July 11, Friday

1.
8:30am-9:20am: Vector-valued modular forms and the hypergeometric equation, Peter Bantay, Eotvos Lorand University, Hungary.
2.
9:20am-9:30am: Ten-minute break.
3.
9:30am-10:00am: Vertex algebras in higher dimensions, Bojko Bakalov, North Carolina State University.
4.
10:05am-10:35am: A characterization of the moonshine vertex operator algebra by means of Virasoro frames, Hiroshi Yamauchi, Aichi University, Japan.
5.
10:35am-10:45am: Ten-minute break.
6.
10:45am-11:15pm: Recurrence relations for characters of affine Lie algebra , Miroslav Jerkovic, University of Zagreb, Croatia.
7.
11:20am-11:50pm: Combinatorial bases of Feigin-Stoyanovsky's type subspaces of standard modules for , Goran Trupcevic, University of Zagreb, Croatia.
8.
11:55am-12:25pm: Extremal Vertex Operator Algebras, Gerald Hoehn, Kansas State University.
In the Afternoon: open discussion.
(Bus schedule as before)

Maarten Bergvelt
7/15/2008