Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry

AMS Sectional Meeting, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, Sept 23-24, 2000

Tony Geramita and Will Traves organized a special session titled Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry at the American Mathematical Society's sectional meeting on September 23-24, 2000. The meeting took place at the University of Toronto. A listing of the talks follows in the order they were given. An asterisk appears next to each presenter's name.

• Uniform behavior of symbolic powers of ideals.
  Lawrence Ein, University of Illinois, Chicago
  Robert Lazarsfeld, University of Michigan
  Karen E Smith*, Univeristy of Michigan
• Applications of pseudocanonical covers to tight closure problems.
  Florian Enescu*, Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan
• Closed formulas for the core of an ideal.
  Claudia Polini*, University of Oregon
• The Conductor of Submonoids of ℕⁿ.
  Leslie G Roberts*, Queen's University
  Les Reid, Southwest Missouri State University
• 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
• How to compute associated primes of D-modules.
  Harrison K Tsai*, Cornell University
• Local equations for the toric Hilbert scheme.
  Michael Stillman*, Cornell University
• Mod p Invariants of the Cyclic group, C_p, of order p.
  H. E. A. Eddy Campbell*, Queen's University
• Cartier Isomorphism for Toric Varieties.
  Manuel Blickle*, University of Michigan
• Vector bundle vanishing and approximation theory.
  Hal Schenck*, Northeastern University
  Peter Stiller, Texas A&M University
• On Equations Defining Coincident Root Varieties.
  Jaydeep V Chipalkatti*, Queen's University
• Level Artin algebras: components of LEVALG(T).
  Anthony A. Iarrobino, Jr.*, Mathematics Department, Northeastern University
• Gorenstein Ideals of Embedding Codimension Four.
  Anthony Iarrabino, Northeastern University
  Hema Srinivasan*, University of Missouri-Columbia
• Conjectures on the Hilbert function of multiple points.
  Karen A. Chandler*, University of Notre Dame
• Polarization and Syzygies of Multigraded modules.
  Hara Charalambous*, University at Albany, SUNY
• 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
• Syzygies, Euclidean Algorithm and Fractals.
  Ragnar-Olaf Buchweitz*, Dept. of Math., Univ. of Toronto
• Desingularization Algorithms.
  Edward Bierstone*, University of Toronto
  Pierre Milman, University of Toronto
• Monomialization of Morphisms.
  Steven D Cutkosky*, University of Missouri
• Equations of modular curves.
  Sorin E Popescu*, Columbia University
• Quot schemes and effective base point freeness on moduli spaces of vector bundles.
  Mihnea Popa*, University of Michigan
• Weighted projective planes and automorphisms of ℂ³ .
  Peter Russell*, McGill University
• Branched covers of the sphere and the geometry and topology of the moduli space of curves.
  Ravi Vakil*, M.I.T.