October 29 (Mon) 10:00 -- 10:10 Opening Words 10:30 -- 11:20 Michael Fried (University of California, Irvine) "p-perfect finite groups and their associated modular curve-like towers" 11:40 -- 12:30 Shinichi Mochizuki (RIMS, Kyoto University) "Anabelian Geometry in the Hodge-Arakelov Theory of Elliptic Curves I" 15:00 -- 15:50 Helmut Voelklein (University of Florida) "Covers to P^1 of the general curve of genus g" 16:10 -- 17:00 Akio Tamagawa (RIMS, Kyoto University) "Fundamental groups of curves in positive characteristic"
October 30 (Tue) 10:00 -- 10:50 Michael Fried (University of California, Irvine) "Tangential base-points and the cusps associated to Modular tower components" 11:10 -- 12:00 Shinichi Mochizuki (RIMS, Kyoto University) "Anabelian Geometry in the Hodge-Arakelov Theory of Elliptic Curves II" 15:00 -- 15:50 Shinichi Mochizuki (RIMS, Kyoto University) "Anabelian Geometry in the Hodge-Arakelov Theory of Elliptic Curves III" 16:10 -- 17:00 Ludmil Katzarkov (University of California, Irvine) "Schematization of homotopy types"
October 31 (Wed) 10:00 -- 10:50 Fedor Bogomolov (Courant Inst. of Math. Sci.) "On Galois groups of function fields" 11:10 -- 12:00 Makoto Matsumoto (IHS, Kyoto University) "Weighted completion of Galois and mapping class groups" 14:00 -- 14:50 Michael Fried (University of California, Irvine) "Generalizing Serre's open image theorem to modular towers" 15:10 -- 15:40 Toru Komatsu (Tokyo Metropolitan University) "On flower-tree dessins and their Belyi functions" 15:50 -- 16:20 Darren Semmen (University of California, Irvine) "Application of Jenning's Theorem on modular representations to reduced Hurwitz spaces" 16:30 -- 17:00 Vilislav Boutchaktchiev (University of California, Irvine) "Brill Noether stacks over a curve"