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Western 1993 Sectional Meeting
Salt Lake City, UT, April 9-10, 1993
Meeting #880

Associate secretaries:
Lance W Small, AMS lwsmall@ucsd.edu

Special Session on Commutative Algebra and Modules

  • Friday April 9, 1993, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
    Special Session on Commutative Algebra and Modules, I
    Room 312, Union Building

    • 8:30 a.m.
      Polynomial maps and Zariski's main theorem.
      Shreeram S. Abhyankar*, Purdue University, West Lafayette
      (880-14-05)
    • 9:00 a.m.
      J. C., Maximal ideals and coincidences.
      Eloise Hamann*, San Jose State University
      (880-13-13)
    • 9:30 a.m.
      On the restriction of the Picard group of a normal quasi-projective variety to a hypersurface section.
      S. D. Cutkosky*, University of Missouri, Columbia
      (880-13-21)
    • 10:00 a.m.
      Local cohomological dimension of algebraic varieties in characteristic p > 0 is algorithmically computable.
      Gennady Lyubeznik*, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
      (880-13-95)
    • 10:30 a.m.
      The ring of glued polynomials on the union of hyperplanes.
      S. Yuzvinsky*, University of Oregon
      C. O'Connor, Shawnee State University
      (880-13-03)

  • Friday April 9, 1993, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
    Special Session on Commutative Algebra and Modules, II
    Room 312, Union Building

    • 3:00 p.m.
      On the fitting ideals in free resolutions.
      Hsin-Ju Wang*, Purdue University, West Lafayette
      (880-13-27)
    • 3:30 p.m.
      Tensor products of modules over 1-dimensional local rings.
      Craig Huneke*, Purdue University, West Lafayette
      Roger Wiegand, Purdue University, West Lafayette
      (880-13-14)
    • 4:00 p.m.
      The asymptotic behavior of Hilbert-Kunz functions and their generalizations.
      Shou-Te Chang*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
      (880-13-44)
    • 4:30 p.m.
      Reduction numbers, Rees algebras, and Pfaffian ideals.
      Sam Huckaba, Florida State University
      Craig Huneke, Purdue University, West Lafayette
      Ian M. Aberbach*, Purdue University, West Lafayette
      (880-13-57)
    • 5:00 p.m.
      Higher structures on infinite resolutions.
      Luchezar L. Avramov*, Purdue University, West Lafayette
      Vesselin N. Gasharov, Brandeis University
      Irena V. Peeva, Brandeis University
      (880-13-72)
    • 5:30 p.m.
      Zero cycles and projective modules.
      M. Pavaman Murthy*, University of Chicago
      (880-13-93)

  • Saturday April 10, 1993, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
    Special Session on Commutative Algebra and Modules, III
    Room 312, Union Building

    • 8:30 a.m.
      On the Canonical element conjecture.
      S. P. Dutta*, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
      (880-13-02)
    • 9:00 a.m.
      Rings of invariants: The Cohen-Macaulay property and F-rationality.
      Donna Glassbrenner*, University of Virginia
      (880-13-28)
    • 9:30 a.m.
      On the Hilbert function of determinantal rings.
      J. Herzog*, Purdue University, West Lafayette and University of Essen, Germany
      A. Conca, Purdue University, West Lafayette and University of Essen, Germany
      (880-13-55)
    • 10:00 a.m.
      Tight closure and big Cohen-Macauley algebras.
      Melvin Hochster*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
      (880-13-24)
    • 10:30 a.m.
      On a certain class of algebraically independent elements.
      William Heinzer, Purdue University, West Lafayette
      Christel Rotthaus*, Michigan State University
      Judith D. Sally, Northwestern University
      (880-13-29)

  • Saturday April 10, 1993, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
    Special Session on Commutative Algebra and Modules, IV
    Room 312, Union Building

    • 3:00 p.m.
      Reflexive modules over normal domains.
      Frank Demeyer*, Colorado State University
      Kim Regnier, Colorado State University
      (880-13-22)
    • 3:30 p.m.
      Local duality for Matlis reflexive modules.
      Richard Belshoff, Southwest Missouri State University
      Cameron Wickham*, Southwest Missouri State University
      (880-13-64)
    • 4:00 p.m.
      Characterization of completions of unique factorization domains.
      Raymond C. Heitmann*, University of Texas, Austin
      (880-13-31)
    • 4:30 p.m.
      Krull-Schmidt theorems in dimension 1.
      Lawrence S. Levy*, University of Wisconsin, Madison
      Charles J. Odenthal, University of Toledo
      (880-16-54)
    • 5:00 p.m.
      On weak liftings of modules.
      Songqing Ding*, Texas Tech University
      (880-13-38)
    • 5:30 p.m.
      Noncommutative algebra and algebraic geometry.
      Alexander Rosenberg*, University of Utah
      (880-13-83)
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