Combinatorial & Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Combinatorial & Algebraic Geometry Seminar

List of Talks given in 1998-99

Wednesday, September 16   Irena Peeva, Cornell University
Monomial resolutions and cohomology of subspace arrangements
Monday, September 21   Eva Maria Feichtner, Institute for Advanced Study
Cohomology of ordered configuration spaces of spheres
Tuesday, September 22   Eva Maria Feichtner, Institute for Advanced Study
Intersection cohomology of toric varieties and the proof of the g-theorem
Wednesday, September 30   Swapneel Mahajan, Cornell University
The abc (and d) of the Boolean lattice
Wednesday, October 7   Vesselin Gasharov, Cornell University
On the singular locus of a Schubert variety
Wednesday, October 14   Patricia Hersh, MIT
Flag f-vectors, symmetric functions and chain decomposition
Wednesday, October 21   David Finston, New Mexico State University and Cornell University
Additive group actions on complex affine space
Wednesday, October 28   Mike Stillman, Cornell University
Computing sheaf cohomology on projective spaces and on toric varieties
Monday, November 9   E. Graham Evans, University of Illinois at Urbana and Queens University
Minimal Betti numbers for R/I with given Hilbert function
Tuesday, December 1   John Hubbard, Cornell University
The structure at infinity for Newton's method in several variables
Monday, February 1   Ken Brown, Cornell University
Random walks and ring theory: combinatorial aspects
Monday, February 15   Michael Stillman, Cornell University
Local cohomology and monomial ideals
Monday, March 1   Cathy Stenson, Cornell University
The early history of Mobius inversion
Monday, March 8   Christos Athanasiadis, University of Pennsylvania
The graph of monotone paths on a convex polytope
Monday, March 15   Irena Peeva, Cornell University
Toric Hilbert schemes
Monday, March 29   Yurii Burman, Independent University of Moscow
Quadratic Poisson brackets on associative algebras
Thursday, April 1   Hema Srinivasan, University of Missouri
Bounds for shifts in resolutions
Friday, April 2   Dale Cutkosky, University of Missouri
Regularity of resolutions (tentative title)
Monday, April 12   Hal Schenck, Northeastern University
Poincare polynomials of hyperplane arrangements
Monday, May 3   Ira Gessel, Brandeis University
What's new with trees?