The Noether-Lefschetz conjecture and its generalizations -- Zhiyuan Li, April 24, 2015

According to Maulik and Pandharipande, there is a conjectural description of the Picard group of the moduli space of K3 surfaces of any given genus, called the Noether-Lefschetz conjecture. In this talk, I will talk about the proof of this conjecture and its relation to a strengthening of the Hodge conjecture on Shimura varieties. This is joint work with Bergeron, Millson and Moeglin.