Moonshine - The First Quarter Century and Beyond
Proceedings of a Workshop on the Moonshine Conjectures and Vertex Algebras

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Preface
Schedule of talks
1. Characters of crossed modules and premodular categories Peter Bantay
2. On the injectivity of the Kudla–Millson lift and surjectivity of the Borcherds lift Jan Hendrik Bruinier and Jens Funke
3. Ordered spanning sets for vertex operator algebras and their modules Geoffrey Buhl
4. Friendly giant meets pointlike instantons? On a new conjecture by John McKay Anda Degeratu and Katrin Wendland
5. Modularity of trace functions in orbifold theory for Z-graded vertex operator superalgebras Chongying Dong and Zhongping Zhao
6. Twisted modules for vertex operator algebras Benjamin Doyon
7. Vertex operators and sporadic groups John F. Duncan
8. The algebraic meaning of being a Hauptmodul Terry Gannon
9. Borcherds' proof of the Conway–Norton conjecture Elizabeth Jurisich
10. On the connection of certain Lie algebras with vertex algebras Haisheng Li
11. Vertex operators and arithmetic: how a single photon illuminates number theory Geoffrey Mason
12. Rational vertex operator algebras and their orbifolds Geoffrey Mason
13. Quasi-finite algebras graded by Hamiltonian and vertex operator algebras Atushi Matsuo, Kiyokazu Nagatomo and Akihiro Tsuchiya
14. On certain automorphic forms associated to rational vertex operator algebras Antun Milas
15. Moonshine and group cohomology Charles B. Thomas
16. Monstrous and generalized Moonshine and permutation orbifolds Michael P. Tuite
17. New computations in the Monster Robert A. Wilson.

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