AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, April 12, 2008 00:23:32

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

Saturday April 5, 2008, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Combinatorial and Geometric Aspects of Commutative Algebra, I
Room 228, Ballantine Hall
Organizers:
Juan Migliore, University of Notre Dame migliore.1@nd.edu
Uwe Nagel, University of Kentucky uwenagel@ms.uky.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Determinantal Equations.
  Gregory G. Smith*, Queen's University
  Jessica Sidman, Mount Holyoke College
  (1038-14-294)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Free Resolutions of Edge Ideals Corresponding to Simple Graphs.
  Rachelle R Bouchat*, University of Kentucky
  (1038-13-253)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Detecting properties of graphs via commutative algebra.
  Christopher A. Francisco*, Oklahoma State University
  Tai H. Ha, Tulane University
  Adam Van Tuyl, Lakehead University
  (1038-13-90)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Arrangements of hyperplanes, poset resolutions of monomial ideals, and free resolutions of multigraded modules.
  A. Beecher, United States Military Academy
  T. Clark, University at Albany, SUNY
  A. Tchernev*, University at Albany, SUNY
  (1038-13-129)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Some results on the $h$-vectors of matroids.
  Erik Stokes*, University of Kentucky
  (1038-13-250)
- 10:30 a.m.
  The first Picard-graded Betti numbers of some Cox rings.
  Mauricio F Velasco*, UC Berkeley
  (1038-13-194)

Saturday April 5, 2008, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Combinatorial and Geometric Aspects of Commutative Algebra, II
Room 228, Ballantine Hall
Organizers:
Juan Migliore, University of Notre Dame migliore.1@nd.edu
Uwe Nagel, University of Kentucky uwenagel@ms.uky.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  A vanishing theorem for log-canonical pairs.
  Lawrence Man Hou Ein*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  Tomaso de Fernex, University of Utah
  (1038-18-80)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Toroidalization of Locally Toroidal Morphisms from $N$-folds to Surfaces.
  Krishna C Hanumanthu*, University of Missouri
  (1038-14-191)
- 4:00 p.m.
  The Newton filtration on a semigroup ring.
  Mathias Schulze, Oklahoma State University
  Uli Walther*, Purdue University
  (1038-13-31)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Properties of cut ideals of certain graphs.
  Uwe Nagel, University of Kentucky
  Sonja Petrovi\'c*, University of Kentucky
  (1038-13-279)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Cup product of line bundles on complete flag varieties and Weyl group combinatorics.
  Mike Roth*, Queen's University
  (1038-14-287)
- 5:30 p.m.
  On the Equations of Blowup Algebras.
  C Polini*, University of Notre Dame
  (1038-13-177)

Sunday April 6, 2008, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Combinatorial and Geometric Aspects of Commutative Algebra, III
Room 228, Ballantine Hall
Organizers:
Juan Migliore, University of Notre Dame migliore.1@nd.edu
Uwe Nagel, University of Kentucky uwenagel@ms.uky.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  A sharp bound on the multiplicity of almost complete intersections.
  Giulio Caviglia*, Purdue University
  (1038-13-347)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Interval Conjectures for level Hilbert functions.
  Fabrizio Zanello*, Michigan Technological University
  (1038-13-180)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Cremona maps by way of ideals of linear type and linear syzygies.
  Francesco Russo, Federal University of Pernambuco
  Aron Simis*, Federal University of Pernambuco
  (1038-14-91)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Persistence complexes for graphs.
  Chris Frederick, Colorado State University
  Chris Peterson*, Colorado State University
  (1038-13-276)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Ulrich bundles on cubic surfaces.
  Marta Casanellas, Universitat Polit`ecnica de Catalunya
  Robin Hartshorne*, University of Calfornia, Berkeley
  (1038-14-227)

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