Program
Saturday 3 March
| 12:30–1:00 pm | Check-in and coffee/snacks |
| 1:00–2:00 pm | Poster session |
| 2:00–3:00 pm | Tsit Yuen Lam |
| 3:00–4:00 pm | Kristen Beck |
| 4:00–5:00 pm | Poster session |
| 5:00–6:00 pm | Frank Sottile |
| 6:30 pm | Social gathering |
Sunday 4 March
| 8:00–8:30 am | Continental breakfast |
| 8:30–9:30 am | Nathaniel Thiem |
| 9:30–10:30 am | Poster session |
| 10:30–11:30 am | Susan Morey |
| 11:30–12:30 pm | Andy Magid |
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Registration
To ease the planning we request that all participants fill out the registration form before 13 February 2012.
Travel and Accommodation
The conference takes place in the Mathematics and Statistics building, Broadway/Boston, Lubbock, TX 79409; it is building 82 on the campus map. Parking in front of the building is free on weekends. The party will be at the home of Professor P.D. Mara Neusel. Directions will be in your participant's package.
Rooms have been blocked at the Overton Hotel. The hotel is at the northeast corner of the TTU campus. To book a room at the conference rate of $85 plus tax, please fill in the hotel section of the registration form.
Lubbock's Preston Smith Airport (LBB) is located about 8 miles from the TTU campus and the Overton Hotel, which offers a shuttle service to the airport.
Sponsors and Support
The meeting is supported by funds from the College of Arts and Sciences and the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Texas Tech University. We also have funds from the National Security Agency and Oak Ridge Associated Universities for participant travel support.
Organizers
Lars Winther Christensen (Texas Tech University)
Louiza Fouli (New Mexico State University)
Ray Heitmann (University of Texas-Austin)
David Jorgensen (University of Texas-Arlington)
List of Participants
See the conference pictures, courtesy of Timothy Price
Speakers
Kristen Beck (University of Arizona)
On the Behavior of Depth and Dimension of High Syzygy Modules
Tsit Yuen Lam (University of California-Berkeley)
Commutators and Generalized Commutators in Matrix Rings
Andy Magid (University of Oklahoma)
Differential Modules over a Differential Ring
Susan Morey (Texas State University)
Properties of Edge Ideals
Frank Sottile (Texas A&M University)
Bounds for the number of real solutions to systems of equations
Nathaniel Thiem (University of Colorado-Boulder)
Supercharacters and the art of squinting in the right way
Poster Presenters
Praise Adeyemo (University of New Mexico and University of Ibadan)
The Distinguished Monomials Associated with the Ehresmann Cycles of Flag Manifolds
Taylor Dupuy (University of New Mexico)
Cohomology Classes Associated to Arithmetic Jet Spaces
Nickolas Hein (Texas A&M University)
Real Schubert Calculus
David Hren (New Mexico State University)
The Catapower of a Local Noetherian Ring
Harlan Kadish (Texas A&M University)
Applying Quasi-Inverse Rings to Algebraic Equivalence Relations
Paolo Mantero (Purdue University)
Minimal Elements of Liaison Classes
Trevor McGuire (Louisiana State University)
Free Resolutions of Ideals with Binomial and Monomial Generators
Jared Painter (University of Texas-Arlington)
The Algebra Structure of Tor for Trivariate Monomial Ideals
Lokendra Paudel (New Mexico State University)
Weak approximation for valuation overrings of affine domains
Laurie Price (University of New Mexico)
Closure Operations on the Submonoids of Natural Numbers
Denise Rangel (University of Texas-Arlington)
On the Category of Totally Reflexive Modules
Eliseo Sarmiento (CINVESTAV-IPN)
Evaluation codes and vanishing ideals over graphs and clutters
Lacy Scott (University of Texas-Arlington)
Collineations of Projective Planes
Piyush Shroff (Texas A&M University)
Finite generation of cohomology of quotients of PBW algebras
Simplice Tchamna (New Mexico State University)
Completion in the ideal topology of a Noetherian ring
Padmini Veerapen (University of Texas-Arlington)
Point Modules of Graded Skew Clifford Algebras
Bryan White (University of New Mexico State)
Star Operations on Numerical Semigroup Rings