AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:12

Associate secretaries:
Susan J Friedlander, AMS susan@math.northwestern.edu

Saturday September 23, 2000, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry, I
Room 4171, Medical Sciences Building
Organizers:
Anthony Geramita, Queens University tony@mast.queensu.ca
William Traves, United States Naval Academy traves@usna.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Uniform behavior of symbolic powers of ideals.
  Lawrence Ein, University of Illinois, Chicago
  Robert Lazarsfeld, University of Michigan
  Karen E Smith*, Univeristy of Michigan
  (957-13-131)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Applications of pseudocanonical covers to tight closure problems.
  Florian Enescu*, Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan
  (957-13-99)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Closed formulas for the core of an ideal.
  Claudia Polini*, University of Oregon
  (957-13-20)
- 10:00 a.m.
  The Conductor of Submonoids of $\mathbb{N}^n$.
  Leslie G Roberts*, Queen's University
  Les Reid, Southwest Missouri State University
  (957-13-119)
- 10:30 a.m.
  $\mathcal{D}$-modules on Smooth Toric Varieties.
  Mircea Mustata, University of California, Berkeley
  Gregory G Smith*, University of California, Berkeley
  Harrison Tsai, Cornell University
  Uli Walther, Purdue University
  (957-14-223)
- 11:00 a.m.
  How to compute associated primes of $D$-modules.
  Harrison K Tsai*, Cornell University
  (957-13-110)

Saturday September 23, 2000, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry, II
Room 4171, Medical Sciences Building
Organizers:
Anthony Geramita, Queens University tony@mast.queensu.ca
William Traves, United States Naval Academy traves@usna.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Local equations for the toric Hilbert scheme.
  Michael Stillman*, Cornell University
  (957-13-120)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Mod $p$ Invariants of the Cyclic group, $C_p$, of order $p$.
  H. E. A. Eddy Campbell*, Queen's University
  (957-13-341)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Cartier Isomorphism for Toric Varieties.
  Manuel Blickle*, University of Michigan
  (957-14-176)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Vector bundle vanishing and approximation theory.
  Hal Schenck*, Northeastern University
  Peter Stiller, Texas A&M University
  (957-14-33)
- 5:00 p.m.
  On Equations Defining Coincident Root Varieties.
  Jaydeep V Chipalkatti*, Queen's University
  (957-14-112)

Sunday September 24, 2000, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry, III
Room 4171, Medical Sciences Building
Organizers:
Anthony Geramita, Queens University tony@mast.queensu.ca
William Traves, United States Naval Academy traves@usna.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Level Artin algebras: components of ${\mathrm{LEVALG(T)}}$.
  Anthony A. Iarrobino, Jr.*, Mathematics Department, Northeastern University
  (957-13-168)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Gorenstein Ideals of Embedding Codimension Four.
  Anthony Iarrabino, Northeastern University
  Hema Srinivasan*, University of Missouri-Columbia
  (957-13-299)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Conjectures on the Hilbert function of multiple points.
  Karen A. Chandler*, University of Notre Dame
  (957-14-306)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Polarization and Syzygies of Multigraded modules.
  Hara Charalambous*, University at Albany, SUNY
  (957-13-160)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Resolutions of subsets of finite sets of points in projective space.
  Steven P. Diaz*, Syracuse University
  Geramita V. Anthony, Queen's University
  Migliore C. Juan, University of Notre Dame
  (957-14-103)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Syzygies, Euclidean Algorithm and Fractals.
  Ragnar-Olaf Buchweitz*, Dept. of Math., Univ. of Toronto
  (957-13-281)

Sunday September 24, 2000, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry, IV
Room 4171, Medical Sciences Building
Organizers:
Anthony Geramita, Queens University tony@mast.queensu.ca
William Traves, United States Naval Academy traves@usna.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Desingularization Algorithms.
  Edward Bierstone*, University of Toronto
  Pierre Milman, University of Toronto
  (957-14-225)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Monomialization of Morphisms.
  Steven D Cutkosky*, University of Missouri
  (957-14-130)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Equations of modular curves.
  Sorin E Popescu*, Columbia University
  (957-14-174)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Quot schemes and effective base point freeness on moduli spaces of vector bundles.
  Mihnea Popa*, University of Michigan
  (957-14-185)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Weighted projective planes and automorphisms of ${\mathbb C}^3$.
  Peter Russell*, McGill University
  (957-14-115)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Branched covers of the sphere and the geometry and topology of the moduli space of curves.
  Ravi Vakil*, M.I.T.
  (957-14-289)

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