CMS 2014 Special Session
Commutative Algebra:
Interactions with Algebraic Combinatorics, Algebraic Geometry, and Representation Theory

December 5-8, 2010
Hamilton, ON

As part of the Canadian Mathematical Society Winter Meeting in Hamilton, we will be organizing a special session entitled Commutative Algebra: Interactions with Algebraic Combinatorics, Algebraic Geometry, and Representation Theory. This web page will help supplement the information from the main CMS web page.


Speakers and Schedule

The following people spoke at the session. The table below includes the schedule and the titles of the talks. By clicking on the title, you can see the slides that were presented at the meeting.

Use this link to find the Abstracts for the talks

Sat, Dec. 6
2:00-2:30PM
Juan Migliore
(Notre Dame)
Secant varieties to the varieties of reducible hypersurfaces
Sat, Dec. 6
2:30-3:00PM
Yong Su Shin
(Sungshin Women's University)
The Minimal Free Graded Resolution of A
Star-Configuration in Pn
Sat, Dec. 6
3:30-4:00PM
Tai Ha
(Tulane)
Algebraic invariants of fiber products
Sat, Dec. 6
4:00-4:30PM
Jennifer Biermann
(Mt. Holyoke)
Generalized edge and cover ideals
Sat, Dec. 6
4:30-5:00PM
Enrico Carlini
(Monash/Politecnico di Torino)
On the Waring rank of cubics
Sat, Dec. 6
5:00-5:30PM
Mats Boij
(KTH)
Cones of Hilbert Functions
Sun, Dec. 7
9:00-9:30AM
Brian Harbourne
(Nebraska)
Survey of recent work on resurgences and the
containment problem
Sun, Dec. 7
9:30-10:00AM
Sarah Mayes
(Quest)
Boij-Soderberg decompositions of systems of ideals
Sun, Dec. 7
2:00-2:30PM
Susan Cooper
(North Dakota)
Fat Points, Grids, and Partial Intersections
Sun, Dec. 7
2:30-3:00PM
Paolo Mantero
(UC Riverside)
On a conjecture by G. V. Chudnovsky Cancelled
Sun, Dec. 7
3:30-4:00PM
Luca Chiantini
(Siena)
On the representation of general forms
Sun, Dec. 7
4:00-4:30PM
Alessandro Oneto
(Stockholm)
A Waring problem with higher degree terms
Sun, Dec. 7
4:30-5:00PM
Zach Teitler
(Boise State)
Lower bound for ranks of invariant forms
Sun, Dec. 7
5:00-5:30PM
Hiro Abo
(Idaho)
Eigenvectors of tensors
Sun, Dec. 7
5:30-6:00PM
Tomasz Szemberg
(Uniwersytet Pedagogiczny)
On Sylvester-Gallai Theorem for conics
Mon, Dec. 8
9:00-9:30AM
Ali Alilooee
(Dalhousie)
When is a Squarefree Monomial Ideal of Linear Type?
Mon, Dec. 8
9:30-10:00AM
Nursel Erey
(Dalhousie)
Multigraded Betti Numbers of monomial ideals
Mon, Dec. 8
2:00-2:30PM
Gregory G. Smith
(Queen's)
Parliaments of polytopes and toric vector bundles
Mon, Dec. 8
2:30-3:00PM
David Wehlau
(RMC and Queen's)
Hilbert Functions of Graded Gorenstein Ideals with an S_n-action
Mon, Dec. 8
3:30-4:00PM
Elena Guardo
(Catania)
On the Hilbert functions of points in P^1 x P^1 x P^1


Location

The conference will take place in at the Sheraton Hamilton Hotel in downtown Hamilton.


You can check the Tourism Hamilton webpage for more local information.


Registration and Abstract Submission

To register for the event, and to submit your abstract, you must use the CMS website. Here are the links Note that reduced rates are available until September 30. When you register, pick the lowest applicable fee.


Dinner Information

We are organizing a dinner for the speakers and the participants of our special session for the evening of Saturday, December 6, 2014. We will have dinner at My Thai, a Thai restaurant near the hotel.

Walking directions from the hotel to the restaurant.

Further information will added at a later date.


Hotel Information

The CMS Accommodations Webpage only contains the conference hotel (and information on receiving the reduced rate). There are a number of other hotels near the Sheraton that are within walking distance (<5 minutes).

As an additional note, both the Staybridge Suites and the Homewood Suites are both brand new hotels (<2 years).

There is also a hostel nearby: Hamilton Guest House.


Travel Information

Here is a link to the CMS Travel Webpage with information on how to get to downtown Hamilton.

Since the majority of speakers will be arriving at Pearson Airport in Toronto, you will want to either take a cab or book a shuttle through Airways Transit. Note that a one-way trip will cost you about $90 (CDN).

If you are feeling adventurous, or want to save some money, you can try using public transit. Here's Google's directions for getting to the conference hotel using public transit.



Organizers

Feel free to contact Adam if you have any local questions. He's spending his sabbatical in Hamilton, so he knows the city.

Last Updated: November 17, 2014