Contemporary
Algebra
and
Algebraic
Geometry

         
Schedule of Events
  • Thursday, Nov 21 - Morning, Lubbock Room, University Center:
    • 9:30-10:00 Registration and Refreshments
    • 10:00-10:30 "Combinatorial positivity by orbit degeneration", EZRA MILLER, MSRI/MIT
    • 10:45-11:15 "The core of ideals", CLAUDIA POLINI, MSRI/University of Notre Dame
    • 11:30-12:00 "Hyperplane arrangements and free resolutions", HAL SCHENCK, Texas A&M University

  • Thursday, Nov 21 - Afternoon, Chemistry 107:
    • 3:00-3:30 Refreshments
    • 3:30-3:50 Opening remarks by Texas Tech President, David Schmidly and Dean of Arts and Sciences Jane Winer
    • 3:50-4:50 "Flows on Homogeneous Spaces and Number Theory", GREGORY MARGULIS, Yale University
    • 5:05-6:05 "Classical and Quantum Schubert Calculus", WILLIAM FULTON, University of Michigan

  • Thursday, Nov 21 - Evening:
    • 6:30--> Conference Banquet (Vegetarian options available upon request)

  • Friday, Nov 22 - Morning, Lubbock Room, University Center:
    • 9:30-10:00 Refreshments
    • 10:00-10:30 "Applications of deformation theory to Galois theory", FRAUKE BLEHER, University of Iowa
    • 10:45-11:15 "A q-analogue of Grothendieck-Katz conjecture on p-curvatures", LUCIA DI VIZIO, IAS, Princeton/Universite' Paule Sabatier
    • 11:30-12:00 "Arcs, jets and singularities", MIRCEA MUSTATA, Harvard University

  • Friday, Nov 22 - Afternoon, Chemistry 107:
    • 2:00-3:00 "Vertex Operator Algebra Theory: Structure, Prospects and Problems", JAMES LEPOWSKY, Rutgers University.
    • 3:00-3:15 Refreshments
    • 3:15-4:15 "GNAVOA: Groups, Nonassociative Algebras and Vertex Operator Algebras", ROBERT GRIESS, University of Michigan.
    • 4:30-5:30 "Pro-p groups", EFIM ZELMANOV, Yale University.

  • Friday, Nov 22 - Evening:
    • 6:00---> Reception and Party

  • Saturday, Nov 23 - Morning and Afternoon:
    • Excursion to Palo Duro Canyon. Comfortable shoes suitable for hiking are recommended.

         
The 2002 Mini-Symposium series is sponsored by the Paul Whitfield Horn Professor Endowment at Texas Tech University, the National Science Foundation and the National Security Agency.

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