Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry

Saturday 10/19/2013

8:00-9:00 Registration and Coffee (Bailey Hall 204)
9:00-9:30 Saeed Nasseh, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
DG homological algebra: Application to a question in commutative algebra
9:40-10:10 Hamid Rahmati, Miami University
Duality for Koszul homology over Gorenstein rings
10:20-10:50 Alina Iacob, Georgia Southern University
Gorenstein injective envelopes
10:50-11:15 Coffee
11:15-12:15 Gordana Todorov, Northeastern University
Lattice structure of torsion classes for hereditary algebras
12:15-2:00 Lunch
2:00-2:30 Jenna Rajchgot, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Type A quiver loci and Schubert varieties
2:40-3:10 Bart Van Steirteghem, Medgar Evers College, City University of New York
Weight monoids and spherical roots of affine spherical varieties
3:20-3:50 Julianna Tymoczko, Smith College
Equivariant cohomology and generalized splines
4-4:30 George McNinch, Tufts University
Levi decompositions of linear algebraic groups
4:30-5:00 Coffee
5-6 Anthony Iarrobino, Northeastern University
TBA
6:30 Banquet

Sunday 10/20/2013

8:30-9:00 Coffee (Bailey Hall 204)
9:00-9:30 Laura Ghezzi, New York City College of Technology, City University of New York
The first Hilbert coefficients.
9:40-10:10 Janet Striuli, Fairfield University
Construction of totally reflexive modules
10:20-10:50 Alexandre Tchernev, University at Albany
Symmetric powers of modules of low projective dimension
10:50-11:15 Coffee
11:15-12:15 Sara Faridi, Dalhousie University
The Combinatorics of Betti Numbers
12:15-1:45 Lunch
1:45-2:15 Kuei-Nuan Lin, Smith College
Projective Dimension of Square-Free Monomials
2:25-2:55 Branden Stone, Bard College
Non-simplicial decompositions of Betti diagrams of complete intersections