Workshop: Tautological Relations in the Moduli of Curves
Announcement
The workshop will be held at the Institute for Advanced Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, February 26-28, 2014.
Organizers
Emmanuel Farjoun, David Kazhdan, Jake Solomon and Ran Tessler.
Goals
The workshop will focus on the recent proof of Pixton's conjecture by Pandharipande-Pixton-Zvonkine.
Other topics on the program include
Teleman's classification of semi-simple cohomological field theories and the Madsen-Weiss theorem, also known as Mumford's conjecture.
There will also be some introductory talks.
Series of lectures
- Pandharipande-Pixton-Zvonkine theorem (Dimitry Zvonkine, IMJ). The plan of D. Zvonkine's talks - can be found here.
- Mumford’s conjecture and its proof by Madsen and Weiss (Ezra Getzler, Northwestern).
- Teleman’s classification of semisimple CohFTs (Jonathan Block, UPenn and HUJI).
- The other talks will be introductory talks.
- Link to the lectures.
Registration
For registration and questions, please email to
tautologicalrelationsworkshop@gmail.com.
Please register before 26.1.2014 by email if you would be interested in accommodations.
Budget permitting, we will try to arrange for accommodations.
Speakers and schedule of talks
List of participants