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Moonshiney Conference in Kashiwa

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 - 10:00Registration and coffee
    10:00 - 10:10Opening Remarks
    10:15 - 11:30John McKay (RIMS)
    New approaches to the Monster Part I
    11:30 - 13:30group photo and lunch
    13:30 - 15:00John F. Duncan (Harvard)
    Dynkin diagrams and arithmetic groups
    15:00 - 15:30break
    15:30 - 17:00John H. Conway (Princeton)
    The 26 Node Theorem revisited
    18:00 - 19:30Reception
  • Friday, May 23
  • 9:30 - 10:00coffee
    10:00 - 11:30John McKay (RIMS)
    New approaches to the Monster Part II
    11:30 - 13:30lunch
    13:30 - 15:00T. Basak (Chicago)
    A complex hyperbolic reflection group and the bimonster
    15:00 - 15:30break
    15:30 - 17:00Robert L. Griess, Jr (Michigan)
    Those Darn Dihedral Groups
    18:00 - 19:30Dinner
  • Saturday, May 24
  • 9:30 - 10:00coffee
    10:00 - 11:30John McKay (RIMS)
    New approaches to the Monster Part III
    11:30 - 12:30John Duncan (Harvard)
    (TBA)
    12:30 - 13:30lunch
    13:30 - 15:00C.-H. Lam (Taiwan National Cheng Kung University)
    On McKay's E6, E7 and E8 observations
    15:00 - 15:30break
    15:30 - 17:00John H. Conway (Princeton)
    The Trilingual Monster
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