Algebra Seminar Archive

This semester brings together faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students who are interested in Algebra.


Past Seminars:

 

DATE	SPEAKER	TITLE/ABSTRACT
Feb 11/19	Ozgur Esentepe Toronto	A Milnor-Jung Type Formula for Double Branched Covers of Algebraic Plane Curves
Jan 21/19	Giusseppe Favvachio Catania	The ACM Property for varieties in multiprojective spaces
Jan 7/19	Adam VanTuyl McMaster University	Comparing the regularity and the degree of the h-polynomial of an edge ideal
Oct 29/18	Sergio Da Silva,  Manitoba	On the Gorensteinization of Schubert varieties via boundary divisors
Sept 24/18	Adam VanTuyl McMaster University	Introduction to Hilbert functions and Hilbert polynomials
Sept 10/18	Mike Cox, Johannes Hofscheier, Graham Keiper, Adam Van Tuyl McMaster University	Summer 2018 Recap
Apr 2/18	Michael Cox McMaster University Michael Chong McMaster University	Titles of Seminars
Mar 5/18	Miguel Paczka Mexico	Affine Algebraic Codes
Feb 12/18	Marvi Catalisano Genoa, Italy Yong-Su Shin South Korea	On the Hilbert function of general fat points in P^1 x P^1. Representation Theory and Lefschetz Properties
Jan 29/18	Ashwini Bhat Oklahoma State	Borel ideals and a generalization
Nov 27/17	Jason Palombaro McMaster University	Groebner basis of ideals of points in P^1 x P^1
Nov 13/17	Adam Van Tuyl McMaster University	The Hilbert function of fat points
Oct 30/17	Johannes Hofscheier McMaster University	Ehrhart Theory: When Hilbert functions meet lattice polytopes
Oct 23/17	Vincent Gelinas University of Toronto	Constructing infinite free resolutions for rings of Krull dimension one via noncommutative Artinian rings
Sept 25/17	F. Galetto McMaster University	Distinguishing k-Configurations
Sept. 11/17	Adam Van Tuyl McMaster University	An introduction to the Hilbert functions of points
Mar 29/17	Federico Galetto Math & Stats Dept McMaster University	Regular sequences and symmetric group actions
Mar 22/17	Adam Van Tuyl Math & Stats Dept McMaster University	The associated primes of powers of ideals
Mar 15/17	Sam Budd McMaster University Becky Hooper McMaster University	f-ideals The van der Waerden Complex
Feb 1/17	Yong-Su Shin Sungshin Women's University, Korea	An Artinian ring and Lefschetz properties
Jan 11/17	Adam Van Tuyl McMaster University	The Waldschmidt constant of square-free monomial ideals
Nov 28/16	Mats Boij KTH	Lefschetz Properties
Nov 21/16	Omar Kihel Brock University	On the common factors of indices of a number field and Ore's conjecture.
Nov 18/16	Steffan Marcus The College of New Jersey	Fans of logarithmic structures (Joint with Geometry & Topology Seminar)
Nov 7/16	Barbara Bolognese Fields Institute	On the connectivity of dual graphs of projective curves
Oct 24/16	Alexandra Seceleanu Nebraksa	Configurations of points and lines and an ideal containment problem
Sept 26/16	Diane Maclagan Warwick	Tropical commutative algebra
Sept 19/16	Zach Teitler Boise State University	Bounds for Waring rank
Sept 12/16	Adam Van Tuyl McMaster University	The symbolic defect of an ideal
Mar 24/16	Greg Lee Lakehead University	Group Identities on Unit Groups of Group Rings
Mar 17/16	Tyrone Ghaswala Waterloo University	The Superelliptic Covers and the Lifting Mapping Class Group
Feb 29/16	Chris Francisco Oklahoma State University	Monomial ideals and poset stability conditions
Feb 4/16	Caroline Junkins Western University	Schubert cycles and subvarieties of generalized Severi-Brauer varieties
Jan 28/16	Christian Maire Besancon	Decomposition, analytic pro-p groups and p-class groups
Jan 14/16	Jennifer Biermann Mt. Holyoke	Toric ideals associated to graphs
Nov 26/15	Federico Galetto McMaster Universit	An overview of Boij-Söderberg theory
Nov 12/15	Robert Krone Queen's	Numerical primary decomposition
Oct 29/15	Kam-Fai (Geo) Tam McMaster University	Parametrizing representations of p-adic classical groups - part 2
Oct 22/15	Anna Bigatti Genoa	CoCoA's all flavour Bases - plain, toric, points, approximate..
Oct 8/15	David McKinnon Waterloo	s-arithmetic groups and quantum computing
Oct 1/15	Kam-Fai (Geo) Tam Math and Stats Dept McMaster University	TBA
Sept 17/15	Adam Van Tuyl Math and Stats Dept McMaster University	Introduction to toric ideals of graphs
Sept 24/15	Adam Van Tuyl Math and Stats Dept McMaster University	Resolutions of toric ideals of graphs

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