AMS-INDIA Meeting

Special Session in Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry

Tata Auditorium, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
17-20 December, 2003

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17 Dec 2003


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HI

1. 10.00-10.20 Shreeram S. Abhyankar
   Purdue University, West Lafayette IN, USA
   Approximate roots

2. 10.30-11.00 Balwant Singh
   Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India
   On a question of Huneke concerning seminormality

   H2

3. 4.00-4.20 Vijayalaxmi Trivedi
   Tata Institute, Mumbai, India
   Some computations of Hilbert-Kunz functions and multiplicities

4. 4.30-4.50 Marcus Brodmann
   University of Zurich, Switzerland
   associated primes and numerical invariants of graded local cohomology modules

   H3

5. 5.00-5.20 Anurag Singh
   Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta GA, USA
   The Bockstein homomorphism for local cohomology

6. 5.30-5.50 Santiago Zarzuela
   University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
   On the Rees powers of a module

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   H4

7. 9.00-9.20 B. P. Purnaprajna
   University of Kansas, Lawrence KS, USA
   Classification of Quadruple canonical covers

8. 9.30-9.50 Marc Chardin
   University of Paris VI, Paris, France
   Regularity of ideals and their powers

   H5

9. 10.00-10.20 Steven Dale Cutkosky
   University of Missouri, Columbia MO, USA
   Poincare' series of singularities

10. 10.30-10.50 C. S. Seshadri
    Chennai Mathematical Institute, Chennai, India
    Geometric reductivity - revisited

    H6

11. 4.00-4.20 Juergen Herzog
    Universitaat Essen, Essen, Germany
    Distributive lattices, bipartite graphs and Alexander duality

12. 4.30-4.50 A. Prabhakar Rao
    University of Missouri at St. Louis MO, USA
    Degenerations of vector bundles on three space

    H7

13. 5.00-5.20 Laura Ghezzi
    University of Missouri, Columbia, USA
    Completions of rank 1 valuation rings

14. 5.30-5.50 Ravi A. Rao
    Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India
    A Fundamental Property of Suslin Matrices

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    H8

15. 9.00-9.20 Winfried Bruns
    University of Osnabrueck, Germany
    Cohen-Macaulay and Ulrich ideals of determinantal rings

16. 9.30-9.50 Amartya K. Dutta
    Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India
    Some results on subalgebras of polynomial algebras

    H9

17. 10.00-10.20 Rajendra V. Gurjar
    Tata Institute, Mumbai, India
    Two remarks on the topology of projective surfaces

18. 10.30-10.50 Vasudevan Srinivas
    Tata Institute, Mumbai, India
    A problem in linear algebra

    H10

19. 11.45-12.05 Dilip P. Patil
    Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
    A Criterion for Regular Sequences

20. 12.15-12.35 David Wright
    Washington University at St. Louis, MO, USA
    The Jacobian Conjecture: formal inverse and recent reductions