Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät - Institut für Mathematik

Conference on Two centuries of moduli

Dear colleagues,

On the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the funding in Berlin of Crelle's journal, as well as the 200th anniversary of the birth of Riemann, a conference on

                                 Two centuries of moduli

will take place between September 7-11, 2026 in Berlin at the Humboldt University and at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

https://www.math.hu-berlin.de/~www-ag/Website_TwoCenturiesOfModuli/TwoCenturiesOfModuli.html

Speakers:

Jarod Alper (Seattle)                Dhruv Ranganathan (Cambridge)
Sam Grushevsky (Stony Brook)        Richard Thomas (London)
Nigel Hitchin (Oxford)                Jacob Tsimerman* (Toronto)
Bruno Klingler (HU Berlin)        Gerard van der Geer (Amsterdam)
János Kollár (Princeton)        Claire Voisin (Paris)
Davesh Maulik (MIT)                Anna Wienhardt (Leipzig)
Andrei Okounkov* (New York)        Chenyang Xu (Princeton)
John Pardon* (Stony Brook)        Anton Zorich (Paris)
Sam Payne (Michigan)

*=to be confirmed

The organizers of the conference are Gavril Farkas, Daniel Huybrechts and Rahul Pandharipande.

On Friday, September 11th, the Foundation Compositio Mathematica will award the Algebraic Geometry Prize for the best paper published in the journal Algebraic Geometry. All lectures of the conference take place in the historic Weierstrass Auditorium (3038) in the main building of the Humboldt University on Unter den Linden.

On September 10th a special day will be held on

                                     From Crelle's Berlin to modern moduli

dedicated to the historical development of the concept of moduli and to the person of August Leopold Crelle. The event takes place in the Einstein lecture hall of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

More details will be provided in due course, both concerning the special day and the registration for both events.

We hope to see many of you in Berlin in September!

Best regards,

Gavril Farkas.