AMS :: Fall Central Sectional Meeting, AMS Special Session

AMS Sectional Meeting AMS Special Session

Current as of Sunday, October 28, 2012 00:28:15

Associate secretaries:

Georgia Benkart, AMS benkart@math.wisc.edu

Saturday October 20, 2012, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Commutative Algebra, I
Room 143, College of Arts and Sciences
Organizers:
Livia Hummel, University of Indianapolis
Sean Sather-Wagstaff, North Dakota State University sean.sather-wagstaff@ndsu.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Prime Ideals in Quotients of Mixed Power Series/Polynomial Rings.
  Ela Celikbas*, University of Missouri-Columbia
  Christina Eubanks-Turner, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
  Sylvia Wiegand, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  (1084-13-232)
- 9:00 a.m.
  On FGFC rings.
  Tom Marley*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  (1084-13-218)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Integrally closed rings in birational extensions of two-dimensional regular local rings.
  Bruce Olberding*, New Mexico State University
  Francesca Tartarone, Università degli Studi "Roma Tre"
  (1084-13-127)
- 10:00 a.m.
  A note on factorization in polynomial rings.
  Mark Batell*, North Dakota State University
  Jim Coykendall, North Dakota State University
  (1084-13-227)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Weak Approximation for Valuation Overrings of Affine Domains.
  Lokendra P. Paudel*, New Mexico State University
  (1084-13-160)

Saturday October 20, 2012, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Commutative Algebra, II
Room 143, College of Arts and Sciences
Organizers:
Livia Hummel, University of Indianapolis
Sean Sather-Wagstaff, North Dakota State University sean.sather-wagstaff@ndsu.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  A Geometric Approach to Atomicity and Factorization.
  Jason Greene Boynton, North Dakota State University
  Jim Coykendall*, North Dakota State University
  (1084-13-128)
- 3:00 p.m.
  On Kaplansky's theorem for unique factorization domains.
  Jason Greene Boynton*, North Dakota State University
  Jim Coykendall, North Dakota State University
  (1084-13-342)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Arithmetic of Monoids of Modules over Two-dimensional Rings.
  Nicholas R Baeth*, University of Central Missouri
  Alfred Geroldinger, Karl Franzens-Universität Graz
  (1084-13-84)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Prüfer Conditions on Commutative Group Rings.
  Sarah Glaz, University of Connecticut
  Ryan Schwarz*, SUNY New Paltz
  (1084-13-268)
- 4:30 p.m.
  The Ideal Completion of a Noetherian Local Domain.
  Simplice Tchamna*, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM.
  (1084-13-166)

Sunday October 21, 2012, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Commutative Algebra, III
Room 143, College of Arts and Sciences
Organizers:
Livia Hummel, University of Indianapolis
Sean Sather-Wagstaff, North Dakota State University sean.sather-wagstaff@ndsu.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Fibers of Complete Scalar Extensions.
  David Hren*, New Mexico State University
  (1084-13-88)
- 8:30 a.m.
  A class of coherent regular rings.
  Christel Rotthaus*, Michigan State University
  (1084-13-170)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Power series over Noetherian rings.
  William Heinzer, Purdue University
  Christel Rotthaus, Michigan State University
  Sylvia M Wiegand*, University of Nebraska
  (1084-13-194)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Variations On A Result Of Lescot.
  Sean Sather-Wagstaff, North Dakota State University
  Richard Wicklein*, North Dakota State University
  (1084-13-242)
- 10:00 a.m.
  On Implicitization of Tensor Product Surfaces.
  Hal Schenck, University of Illinois
  Alexandra Seceleanu, University of Nebraska
  Javid Validashti*, University of Illinois
  (1084-13-99)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Vanishing of $\operatorname{Tor}$ over local rings.
  Olgur Celikbas, University of Missouri
  Srikanth Iyengar, University of Nebrasaka--Lincoln
  Greg Piepmeyer, University of Missouri
  Roger Wiegand*, University of Nebraska--Lincoln
  (1084-13-193)

Sunday October 21, 2012, 1:30 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
Special Session on Commutative Algebra, IV
Room 143, College of Arts and Sciences
- 1:30 p.m.
  Quasi-Gorenstein Extended Rees Algebras.
  Youngsu Kim*, Purdue University
  (1084-13-185)
- 2:00 p.m.
  Intersections of collections of valuation domains.
  K Alan Loper*, Ohio State University
  (1084-13-281)
- 2:30 p.m.
  A comparison of dimensions and degrees, and the eta invariant.
  S. Spiroff*, University of Mississippi
  (1084-13-155)