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. |
| 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 |
| 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 |