The conference on Moonshine will be organized by Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (IPMU) under the support of the Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences, the University of Tokyo.

Dates:	May 22nd (Thu) 9:30 - 24th (Sat) 17:00, 2008
Venue:	Media Hall, 1st floor of Kashiwa Library, Kashiwa Campus, the University of Tokyo
Host Institution:	Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (IPMU)
Supporting Institution:	Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences, the University of Tokyo
Organizing Committee:	Kyoji Saito (IPMU), Atsushi Matsuo (University of Tokyo), Masahiko Miyamoto (University of Tsukuba), Hiromichi Yamada (Hitotsubashi University)
Registration:	May 22nd 9:30 - 10:00 A fee of JPY 1,000 will be collected at the desk.
Contact:	info@ipmu.jp
Information for Visitors:	http://www.ipmu.jp/access/index.html
Scientific Program:	Thursday, May 22 9:30 - 10:00 Registration and coffee 10:00 - 10:10 Opening Remarks 10:15 - 11:30 John McKay (RIMS) New approaches to the Monster Part I 11:30 - 13:30 group photo and lunch 13:30 - 15:00 John F. Duncan (Harvard) Dynkin diagrams and arithmetic groups 15:00 - 15:30 break 15:30 - 17:00 John H. Conway (Princeton) The 26 Node Theorem revisited 18:00 - 19:30 Reception Friday, May 23 9:30 - 10:00 coffee 10:00 - 11:30 John McKay (RIMS) New approaches to the Monster Part II 11:30 - 13:30 lunch 13:30 - 15:00 T. Basak (Chicago) A complex hyperbolic reflection group and the bimonster 15:00 - 15:30 break 15:30 - 17:00 Robert L. Griess, Jr (Michigan) Those Darn Dihedral Groups 18:00 - 19:30 Dinner Saturday, May 24 9:30 - 10:00 coffee 10:00 - 11:30 John McKay (RIMS) New approaches to the Monster Part III 11:30 - 12:30 John Duncan (Harvard) (TBA) 12:30 - 13:30 lunch 13:30 - 15:00 C.-H. Lam (Taiwan National Cheng Kung University) On McKay's E6, E7 and E8 observations 15:00 - 15:30 break 15:30 - 17:00 John H. Conway (Princeton) The Trilingual Monster
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