AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:31

Program | Deadlines | Inquiries: meet@ams.org

Associate secretaries:
Lesley M Sibner, AMS lsibner@duke.poly.edu

Saturday October 5, 1996, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Commutative Algebra, I
Room 321, Memorial Hall
Organizers:
Karen E. Smith, Massachusetts Institute of Technology kesmith@math.mit.edu
Irena Swanson, New Mexico State University iswanson@nmsu.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Hilbert's Thirteenth Problem and Genus Zero Coverings
  Shreeram S. Abhyankar*, Purdue University
  (914-14-25)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Puiseux Expansions In Nonzero Characteristic
  Sanju Vaidya*,
  (914-13-192)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Noetherian rings between a local domain and its completion Noetherian rings between a local domain and its completion
  William Heinzer, Purdue University
  Christel Rotthaus, Michigan State Univ
  Sylvia M. Wiegand*, Univ. of Nebraska
  (914-13-234)
- 9:30 a.m.
  On a Question of Matsumura
  Susan Loepp*, Williams College
  (914-13-126)
- 10:00 a.m.
  On the Hilbert Function of an Orbit
  Donna Glassbrenner*, Reed College
  Stuart Reiter, Reed College
  (914-13-268)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Classification and divisor class groups of normal cubicsurfaces in $\bf P^3$.
  Mike E. O'Sullivan*,
  (914-14-232)

Saturday October 5, 1996, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Commutative Algebra, II
Room 321, Memorial Hall
Organizers:
Karen E. Smith, Massachusetts Institute of Technology kesmith@math.mit.edu
Irena Swanson, New Mexico State University iswanson@nmsu.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Iterated quadratic transforms and valuation
  Karen E. Smith, MIT
  Roger Wiegand*, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
  Sylvia Wiegand, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
  (914-14-269)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Hilbert-Kunz functions of graded rings
  Keith Pardue*, Queen's University
  Ragnar Buchweitz, University of Toronto
  Qun Chen, University of Toronto
  (914-13-183)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Lifting Modules and some consequences
  David A Jorgensen*, University of Texas
  (914-13-222)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Minimally elliptic singularities and tight closure
  Janet Cowden*, UCLA/Purdue University
  (914-13-251)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Coefficient modules over a $d$-dimensional quasi-unmixed normal local domain
  Jung-Chen Liu*, Purdue University
  (914-13-165)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Remarks on the Embedded Primary Components of Ideals in aNoetherian ring
  Kishor M. Shah*, Southwest Missouri State University
  (914-13-236)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Tschirnhausen approximate roots in arbitary dimension and characteristic.
  M. Spivakovsky*, University of Toronto
  (914-13-353)

Sunday October 6, 1996, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Commutative Algebra, III
Room 321, Memorial Hall
Organizers:
Karen E. Smith, Massachusetts Institute of Technology kesmith@math.mit.edu
Irena Swanson, New Mexico State University iswanson@nmsu.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Homological Degrees of Modules
  Wolmer V Vasconcelos*, Rutgers University
  (914-13-76)
- 8:30 a.m.
  On the integral closure of ideals
  Alberto Corso*, Purdue University
  Wolmer V. Vasconcelos, Rutgers University
  (914-13-125)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Equality of ordinary and symbolic powers of an ideal
  Susan E. Morey*, University of Texas at Austin
  (914-13-147)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Linkage and Northcott Ideals
  Claudia Polini*, Michigan State University
  Bernd Ulrich, Michigan State University
  (914-13-119)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Cohen--Macaulayness and defining equations of blowup algebras
  Bernd Ulrich*, Michigan State University
  (914-13-120)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Linkage and Sums of Ideals
  Mark R. Johnson*,
  (914-13-101)

Sunday October 6, 1996, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Commutative Algebra, IV
Room 321, Memorial Hall
Organizers:
Karen E. Smith, Massachusetts Institute of Technology kesmith@math.mit.edu
Irena Swanson, New Mexico State University iswanson@nmsu.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  On the schemes Gor(T)
  Anthony V. Geramita*, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario and Universita' di Genova, Genova, Italia
  (914-13-187)
- 3:00 p.m.
  On infinitesimal interpolation.
  Karen A. Chandler*, University of Notre Dame
  (914-14-290)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Singular loci of ladder determinantal varieties and Schubert varieties
  Nicolae Gonciulea*,
  Venkatramani Lakshmibai,
  (914-14-164)
- 4:00 p.m.
  An Algorithm for the Quillen-Suslin Theorem for Monoid Rings
  Cynthia J. Woodburn*,
  Reinhard C. Laubenbacher,
  (914-13-117)
- 4:30 p.m.
  On Functionals and Outside Corners of Monomial Ideals
  Geir Agnarsson*, University of California at Berkeley
  (914-13-229)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Maximum growth of monomial ideals generated in one degree
  Heather Hulett*,
  (914-13-253)
- 5:30 p.m.
  On the algera of embedded joins.
  Aron Simis*, UFBA, bahia, Brazil
  (914-13-354)

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