AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:40

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

Friday September 26, 1997, 3:00 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
Special Session on Commutative Algebra, I
Room 300, Z Wing, Pavillon Principal de l'Universit\'e de Montr\'eal
Organizers:
Irena V. Peeva, Massachusetts Institute of Technology irena@math.mit.edu
Hema Srinivasan, University of Missouri mathhs@mizzou1.missouri.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Resultants and Eagon-Northcott Resolutions
  John C McDonald*,
  (924-14-300)
- 3:30 p.m.
  The Module of differentials
  Ruth I. Michler*, University of North Texas
  (924-13-160)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Cellular Resolutions of Monomial Modules
  Dave Bayer*, Barnard College
  Bernd Sturmfels, University of California at Berkeley
  (924-14-113)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Spanning Trees and Quasi-Inverses
  John A. Eagon*,
  (924-13-251)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Gorenstein Divisors
  Anthony A. Iarrobino, Jr.*, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115
  (924-13-245)
- 5:30 p.m.
  The Projective Geometry of the Gale Transform
  Sorin E Popescu*, Columbia University
  David Eisenbud, Berkeley
  (924-14-187)
- 6:00 p.m.
  Term Orders in Free Algebras
  Reinhard C Laubenbacher*, New Mexico State University
  (924-13-237)

Saturday September 27, 1997, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Commutative Algebra, II
Room 310, Z Wing, Pavillon Principal de l'Universit\'e de Montr\'eal
Organizers:
Irena V. Peeva, Massachusetts Institute of Technology irena@math.mit.edu
Hema Srinivasan, University of Missouri mathhs@mizzou1.missouri.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Intermediate rings between a local domain and its completion
  William Heinzer, Purdue University
  Christel Rotthaus, Michigan State University
  Sylvia Wiegand*, University of Nebraska
  (924-13-101)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Noetherian Rings Between a Local Domain and its Completion
  Christel Rotthaus*, Michigan State University
  (924-13-126)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Multiplicity of a Noetherian Intersection
  Andrei Gabrielov*, Purdue University
  (924-14-96)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Local factorization and monomialization of morphisms
  Steven D Cutkosky*, Univ. Missouri
  (924-14-177)
- 10:00 a.m.
  $\cal A$-graded ideals
  Vesselin Gasharov*, University of Michigan
  Irena Peeva, M.I.T.
  (924-13-195)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Weak F-regularity deforms in $\Bbb Q$-Gorenstein rings
  Ian M Aberbach*, University of Missouri
  Mordechai Katzman, University of Minnesota
  Brian MacCrimmon, University of Missouri
  (924-13-173)

Saturday September 27, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Commutative Algebra, III
Room 310, Z Wing, Pavillon Principal de l'Universit\'e de Montr\'eal
Organizers:
Irena V. Peeva, Massachusetts Institute of Technology irena@math.mit.edu
Hema Srinivasan, University of Missouri mathhs@mizzou1.missouri.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Capelli-Type Identities and Resolutions of Weyl Modules.
  David A Buchsbaum*, Brandeis University
  Gian-Carlo Rota, M.I.T.
  (924-13-25)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Gor(T) and other classifying spaces for graded artinian level algebras
  Anthony V. Geramita*, Queen's University(Kingston, Canada), University of Genova (Genova, Italy)
  (924-13-12)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Hilbert-Kunz functions of quartics
  Paul Monsky*, Brandeis University
  (924-13-49)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Some results on test elements
  Ian M Aberbach, University of Missouri
  Brian MacCrimmon*, University of Missouri
  (924-13-175)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Determinantal Varieties and moduli spaces for piecewise polynomial functions
  Henry K Schenck*, Cornell University
  (924-13-116)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Chern classes of regular embeddings.
  Paul C. Roberts*, University of Utah
  (924-13-224)

Sunday September 28, 1997, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Commutative Algebra, IV
Room 310, Z Wing, Pavillon Principal de l'Universit\'e de Montr\'eal
Organizers:
Irena V. Peeva, Massachusetts Institute of Technology irena@math.mit.edu
Hema Srinivasan, University of Missouri mathhs@mizzou1.missouri.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Resolutions of determinantal ideals and the homology of chessboard and matching complexes
  Vic Reiner*, Univ. of Minnesota
  Joel Roberts, Univ. of Minnesota
  (924-13-219)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Classification of Thom-Boardman strata that are Cohen-Macaulay along determinantal strata.
  Jerzy M Weyman*, Northeastern University
  (924-13-215)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Generalized principal ideal theorems
  David Eisenbud, MSRI
  Bernd Ulrich*, Michigan State University
  (924-13-197)
- 9:30 a.m.
  On depth properties of the associated graded ring of $m$-primary ideals.
  Alberto Corso, Purdue University
  Claudia Polini*, Michigan State University
  Maria Vaz Pinto, Universidade de Lisboa
  (924-13-196)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Infinite free complexes with finite length homologies in characteristic $p(>0)$.
  Sankar P. Dutta*, University of Illinois, Department of Mathematics
  (924-13-76)
- 10:30 a.m.
  On the weak subintegral closure of ideals
  Marie A. Vitulli*, University of Oregon
  (924-13-97)

Sunday September 28, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Commutative Algebra, V
Room 310, Z Wing, Pavillon Principal de l'Universit\'e de Montr\'eal
Organizers:
Irena V. Peeva, Massachusetts Institute of Technology irena@math.mit.edu
Hema Srinivasan, University of Missouri mathhs@mizzou1.missouri.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Curvature for Infinite Resolutions
  Luchezar L Avramov*, Purdue University
  (924-13-246)
- 3:00 p.m.
  The structure of closed ideals
  Joseph P. Brennan*, North Dakota State University
  Wolmer V. Vasconcelos, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
  (924-13-134)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Local rings of finite Cohen-Macaulay type
  Roger Wiegand*, University of Nebraska
  (924-13-47)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Characterizing Etale Intermediate Rings $A \subseteq D \subseteq A^{hs}$
  Mark S. McCormick*, Michigan State University
  (924-13-73)

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