Meeting: 944, Denton, TX Special Session: Algebraic Geometry and Commutative Algebra code: AMS SS F1 Organizers: Javier Elizondo, UNAM javier@math.unam.mx Xavier Gomez-Mont, CIMAT gmont@fractal.cimat.mx Alberto Corso, Michigan State University corso@math.msu.edu David A. Jorgensen, University of Texas at Arlington djorgens@math.uta.edu ___________________________________________________________________________ Thursday May 20, 1999, 8:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m. 8:30 a.m. --- 8:50 a.m. On systems of binomials in toric varieties. Shalom Eliahou, Rafael H Villarreal*, IPN Mexico (944-13-140) 9:00 a.m. --- 9:20 a.m. Associated Primes of Toric Initial Ideals. Serkan Hosten, Rekha R Thomas*, Texas A&M University (944-13-311) 9:30 a.m. --- 9:50 a.m. Noether normalizations of some subrings of graphs. Adri\'an Alc\'antar*, IPN Mexico (944-13-180) 10:00 a.m. --- 10:30 a.m. Integral closure, conductors and direct summands. Daniel Katz*, University of Kansas at Lawrence (944-13-302) Thursday May 20, 1999, 2:00 p.m.-4:30 p.m. 2:00 p.m. --- 2:20 p.m On low rank algebraic vector bundles. N. Mohan Kumar, Chris Peterson*, Washington University in St. Louis A. Prabhakar Rao, (944-13-341) 2:30 p.m. --- 2:50 p.m Depth for complexes, and intersection theorems. Srikanth B Iyengar*, University of Missouri at Columbia (944-13-159) 3:00 p.m. --- 3:30 p.m Refinements of a Conjecture of Nagata. Brian Harbourne*, University of Nebraska at Lincoln (944-14-292) 3:40 p.m. --- 4:00 p.m On the torsion freeness of symmetric powers of ideals. Alexandre Tchernev*, University of Missouri at Columbia (944-13-330) 4:10 p.m. --- 4:30 p.m Fat point ideals for 8 or fewer points of ${\bf P}^2$. Brian Harbourne, University of Nebraska at Lincoln Sandeep Holay, University of Nebraska at Lincoln Stephanie Fitchett*, Duke University (944-14-313) Friday May 21, 1999, 8:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m. 8:30 a.m. --- 8:50 a.m. Gorenstein Modules. Graham J. Leuschke*, University of Nebraska at Lincoln 9:00 a.m. --- 9:20 a.m. Depth of symmetric algebras of certain ideals. Mark R Johnson*, University of Arkansas (944-13-304) 9:30 a.m. --- 9:50 a.m. On residually $S_2$ ideals. Alberto Corso, Michigan State University Claudia Polini*, Hope College (944-13-151) 10:00 a.m. --- 10:30 a.m. Strange summands of direct sums of copies of a module. Roger A Wiegand*, University of Nebraska at Lincoln (944-13-314) Friday May 21, 1999, 2:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m. 2:30 p.m. --- 2:50 p.m On The Gauss-Manin Connection. Herbert Kanarek*, UNAM (944-13-378) 3:00 p.m. --- 3:30 p.m Generalized Auslander Regular Algebras. Roberto Mart\'{\i}nez-Villa*, UNAM (944-13-206) 3:40 p.m. --- 4:00 p.m Associated graded rings of normal ideals. Sam Huckaba, Florida State University Thomas Marley*, University of Nebraska at Lincoln (944-13-259) 4:10 p.m. --- 4:30 p.m Divisors of a Rees Algebra. Susan E Morey*, University of South West Texas Wolmer V Vasconcelos, Rutgers University (944-13-307) Saturday May 22, 1999, 9:00 a.m.-noon 9:00 a.m. --- 9:20 a.m. On the classification of double meanders of $M$-curves of degree 5. Anatoly B. Korchagin*, Texas Tech University (944-14-25) 9:30 a.m. --- 9:55 a.m. Noetherian domains inside a homomorphic image of a completion I. William Heinzer, Purdue University Christel Rotthaus, Michigan State University Sylvia M Wiegand*, University of Nebraska at Lincoln (944-13-280) 10:05 a.m. --- 10:30 a.m. Noetherian domains inside a homomorphic image of a completion II. William Heinzer, Purdue University Christel Rotthaus*, Michigan State University Sylvia M Wiegand, University of Nebraska at Lincoln (944-13-248) 10:40 a.m. --- 11:00 a.m. Some results on rational surfaces and Fano varieties. Francisco J Gallego, Bangere P Purnaprajna*, University of Kansas at Lawrence (944-13-382) 11:10 a.m. --- 11:30 a.m. Serre's Multiplicity Conjectures for Connected Algebras. Izuru Mori*, University of Texas at Arlington (944-16-201) 11:40 a.m. --- noon Normalization of toric varieties. Joseph Brennan*, brennan@hazlett.math.ndsu.NoDak.edu. (944-13-364)