Mathematical Research Communities
Special Session on Commutative Algebra
Joint AMS-MAA Mathematical Meetings

New Orleans - Friday, January 7, 2011


Napoleon B3, 3rd Floor, Sheraton

Organizers:

                       

Speakers (click to view abstract):
Christine Berkesch - Stockholm University
cberkesc at math.su.se

 Bhargav Bhatt - University of Michigan
bhattb at umich.edu

 Jason McCullough - University of California, Riverside
jmccullo at math.ucr.edu

 Javid Validashti - University of Kansas
jvalidas at math.ku.edu
 		8:00 - Craig Huneke (Kansas) - Applications of graded integral closures
8:30 - Aline Hosry (Missouri) - Coefficient theorems of Briançon-Skoda type
9:00 - Yu Xie (Notre Dame) - Symbolic power of some classes of algebras
9:30 - Emily Witt (Michigan) - Local cohomology modules as G-modules
10:00 - Lori McDonnell (Nebraska) - The Second Hilbert Coefficient of a Parameter Ideal in an Unmixed Ring
10:30 - Kristen Beck (UT Arlington) - Conditions for the existence of totally reflexive modules
11:00 - Melissa Lindsey (Purdue) - Extending the Strong Lefschetz Property
11:30 - Alexandra Seceleanu (UIUC) - Inverse systems, Gelfand-Tsetlin patterns and the weak Lefschetz property

1:00 - Hailong Dao (Kansas) - On the semi-ring of vector bundles on punctured spectra of regular local rings
1:30 - Douglas Torrance (Idaho) - Bounds on the degrees of generators of Bruns ideals
2:00 - Manoj Kummini (Purdue) - Bounds for arithmetic rank
2:30 - Wenliang Zhang (Michigan) - Cartier Modules on Toric Varieties
3:00 - Daniel Hernandez (Michigan) - F-pure thresholds of hypersurfaces over fields of positive characteristic
3:30 - Shunsuke Takagi (Kyushu/MIT) - On parameter F-jumping numbers

All MRC participants are invited to a reception Friday night from 5:30 to 6:30pm in Bayside C at the Sheraton. Snacks will be served.

Other useful links:
Official Special Session Page
Special Session on Local Commutative Algebra
Special Session on Combinatorial Algebraic Geometry
AMS-SIAM Special Session on Mathematics of Computation: Algebra and Number Theory
Special Session on Computational Algebraic and Analytic Geometry for Low-Dimensional Varieties

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