�@�@�@Finite Groups, Vertex Operator Algebras and Combinatorics

January 6 - 9, 2009
Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
( http://www.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/index.html )


                   Program

January 6 (Tue)

 1:30 -  2:30  Hiroaki Terao (Hokkaido University), Hidehiko Kamiya (Okayama University), 
               Akimichi Takemura (University of Tokyo)
   Periodicity of hyperplane arrangements with integral coefficients modulo positive integers

 2:50 -  3:50  Hiro-Fumi Yamada (Okayama University)
   Compound basis for the space of symmetric functions

 4:10 -  5:10  Toshiyuki Abe (Ehime University)
   On $C_2$-cofiniteness of $Z_2$-orbifold models of vertex operator algebras


January 7 (Wed)

 9:40 - 10:40  Tomoyuki Arakawa (Nara Women's University)
   Varieties associated with Kac-Moody vertex algebras and W-algebras

11:00 - 12:00  Haisheng Li (Rutgers University)
   Double Yangians and quantum vertex algebras

 1:30 -  2:30  Soichi Okada (Nagoya University)
   Multivariate generalisation of Hankel determinants of Catalan numbers and middle binomial coefficients

 2:50 -  3:50  Vladimir D. Tonchev (Michigan Technological University)
   Quantum codes and caps

 4:10 -  5:10  Akihiro Munemasa (Tohoku University), 
               Masanori Sawa (Takamatsu National College of Technology)
   Steiner quadruple systems with abelian regular automorphism group


January 8 (Thur)

 9:40 - 10:40  Ching Hung Lam (National Cheng Kung University)
   Dihedral groups and subalgebras of Moonshine VOA

11:00 - 12:00  Hiroki Shimakura (Aichi University of Education)
   Even lattices obtained from doubly even codes and VOAs obtained from even lattices

 1:30 -  2:30  Tatsuro Ito (Kanazawa University)
   The q-Onsager algebra

 2:50 -  3:50  Daisuke Sagaki (University of Tsukuba), Hidekazu Niibori (University of Tsukuba)
   Simplicity of a vertex operator algebra whose Griess algebra is the Jordan algebra of symmetric matrices

 4:10 -  5:10  Hiroshi Yamauchi (Aichi University of Education)
   The extended Virasoro VOAs and related topics


January 9 (Fri)

11:00 - 12:00  Eiichi Bannai (Kyushu University)
   On the late work of D. G. Higman on combinatorics and groups

 1:30 -  2:30  Shih-Chang Huang (University of Auckland/Chiba University)
   New results on Dade's conjecture

 2:50 -  3:50  Shigeo Koshitani (Chiba University)
   New results on Broue's and Rouquier's conjectures


Organizer: Hiromichi Yamada (Hitotsubashi University)

                                              (Last updated on January 6, 2009)