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1991 Central Section Meeting
Fargo, ND, October 25-26, 1991
Meeting #869

Associate secretaries:
Andy R Magid, AMS amagid@ou.edu

Special Session on Commutative Algebra

  • Friday October 25, 1991, 7:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
    Special Session on Commutative Algebra, I
    Century Theater, Memorial Union

    • 7:00 a.m.
      Picard groups of curves.
      Roger Wiegand*, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
      (869-13-122)
    • 7:30 a.m.
      Examples of reflexive modules.
      Frank Demeyer*, Colorado State University
      (869-13-67)
    • 8:00 a.m.
      Maximal ideals in Laurent polynomial rings.
      Budh Nashier*, Florida State University
      (869-13-37)
    • 8:30 a.m.
      Modules over Artinian couples.
      Christel Rotthaus*, Michigan State University
      (869-13-24)
    • 9:00 a.m.
      Descent properties.
      Dana Weston*, University of Missouri, Columbia
      (869-13-151)
    • 9:30 a.m.
      Lengths of factorization of an element into irreducible elements.
      D. D. Anderson*, University of Iowa
      (869-13-08)

  • Friday October 25, 1991, 2:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
    Special Session on Commutative Algebra, II
    Century Theater, Memorial Union

    • 2:00 p.m.
      Algebraic varieties and their hyperplane sections.
      Craig Huneke, Purdue University, West Lafayette
      Bernd Ulrich*, Michigan State University
      (869-13-02)
    • 2:30 p.m.
      Ideals whose Hilbert function and Hilbert polynominal agree at n=1.
      Judith D. Sally*, Northwestern University
      (869-13-85)
    • 3:00 p.m.
      On conditions which imply the invariance of the reduction exponent of an ideal.
      Thomas Marley*, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
      (869-13-128)
    • 3:30 p.m.
      On relation type and reduction number for high powers of ideals in a commutative Noetherian ring.
      Bernard Johnston*, Florida Atlantic University
      D. Katz, University of Kansas
      (869-13-127)
    • 4:00 p.m.
      Mixed multiplicities, joint reductions, and quasi-unmixed local rings.
      Irena Swanson*, Purdue University, West Lafayette
      (869-13-10)
    • 4:30 p.m.
      The family of residue fields of a zero-dimensional commutative ring.
      Robert Gilmer, Florida State University
      William Heinzer*, Purdue University, West Lafayette
      (869-13-71)
    • 5:00 p.m.
      The Riemann-Roch problem.
      Steven Dale Cutkosky*, University of Missouri, Columbia
      V. Srinivas, T.I.F.R, India
      (869-13-166)
    • 5:30 p.m.
      Coefficient ideals in and blowups of a commutative Noetherian domain.
      William Heinzer, Purdue University, West Lafayette
      Bernard Johnston, Florida Atlantic University
      David Lantz*, Colgate University
      Kishor Shah, Southwest Missouri State University
      (869-13-102)

  • Saturday October 26, 1991, 7:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
    Special Session on Commutative Algebra, III
    Century Theater, Memorial Union

    • 7:00 a.m.
      Powers of ideals and rational surfaces.
      Anthony V. Geramita*, Queen's University
      (869-14-126)
    • 7:30 a.m.
      Wreath products and algebraic fundamental groups.
      Shreeram S. Abhyankar*, Purdue University, West Lafayette
      (869-14-03)
    • 8:00 a.m.
      Additive group actions on affine space.
      David R. Finston*, New Mexico State University
      James K. Deveney, Virginia Commonwealth University
      (869-14-31)
    • 8:30 a.m.
      The cohomology of algebraic groups.
      Robert M. Fossum*, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
      (869-20-94)
    • 9:00 a.m.
      When does a characteristic p surface singularity have trivial fundamental group?
      Steven Dale Cutkosky, University of Missouri, Columbia
      Hema Srinivasan*, University of Missouri, Columbia
      (869-13-167)
    • 9:30 a.m.
      Some new K-theoretic invariants for commutative rings.
      Steven E. Landsburg*, Colorado State University
      (869-13-139)

  • Saturday October 26, 1991, 2:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
    Special Session on Commutative Algebra, IV
    Century Theater, Memorial Union

    • 2:00 p.m.
      Locally complete intersection homomorphisms and Quillen's conjecture on the finiteness of cotangent homology.
      Luchezar L. Avramov*, Purdue University, West Lafayette
      (869-13-55)
    • 2:30 p.m.
      Weyman's bicomplex and stable monomial ideals.
      John A. Eagon*, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
      Joel Roberts, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
      (869-13-121)
    • 3:00 p.m.
      On computing standard bases.
      Yonghao Ma*, University of Utah
      (869-13-56)
    • 3:30 p.m.
      Sections of vector bundles over affine varieties.
      Satya Mandal*, University of Kansas
      (869-13-38)
    • 4:00 p.m.
      Serre's conjecture on intersection multiplicity.
      S. P. Dutta*, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
      (869-13-159)
    • 4:30 p.m.
      Gorenstein properties of ring homomorphisms.
      Luchezar L. Avramov, Purdue University, West Lafayette
      Hans-Bj\o rn Foxby*, Matematisk Institut, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
      (869-13-115)
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