Adam Van Tuyl

Hamilton Hall, Room 419
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
McMaster University
Hamilton, ON, Canada
L8S 4L8

E-mail (Best way to contact me!)
vantuyal@mcmaster.ca

Phone (Yes, I still have an office phone)
905.525.9140 x 27016

Office Hours (2025-2026)
TBD
and by appointment

Research My research area is commutative algebra and its connection to other areas like combinatorics and algebraic geometry. I am interested in homological invariants, edge ideals, simplicial complexes, sets of points in (multi)-projective spaces, toric ideals, symbolic powers of ideals, Hadamard products, and combinatorial matrix theory.

At McMaster, I am part of the researc group Combinatorial Algebraic Geometry @McMaster. Check this link to find out more about our group, and information for potential graduate students. Here is a link to our Algebra and Algebraic Geometry Seminar

I am also a member of the Combinatorial Commutative Algebra in Canada, a Collaborative Research Group (CRG) supported by AARMS.

Teaching In 2025-26, I will be teaching the following courses:

• Math 701 - Algebra I (Fall 2025)
  
• Math 3G03 - Problem Solving (Winter 2026)
  
  

Conferences I am currently involved with the following conferences:

Special Session on Commutative Algebra at the CMS Winter Meeting, December 2025 in Toronto, ON

• Thematic Program in Commutative Algebra, a semester long program at the Fields Institute. The workshop will be organized with David Eisenbud, Elisa Gorla, Megumi Harada, Jenna Rajchgot, and Hal Schenck. Date: Jan-June 2025.

You can also see what I did on my

• 2008-2009 Sabbatical
• 2014-2015 Sabbatical
• 2022-2023 Sabbatical