Pan-American Advanced Studies Institute (PASI)
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Commutative Algebra and its connections to Geometry

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Olinda, Brazil
August 3 - August 14, 2009

Mini-Courses

The school will feature seven instructional courses on fundamental techniques in Commutative Algebra and related fields. Every course will consist of four lectures given by the following leading experts:

  1. David Cox, Amherst College (USA)
    Elimination theory: interactions between geometric modeling and commutative algebra
    lecture 1     lecture 3
  2. Jürgen Herzog, University of Duisburg-Essen (Germany)
    Combinatorial commutative algebra
  3. Craig Huneke, University of Kansas (USA)
    Tight closure theory and problems in positive characteristic
  4. Steven Kleiman, MIT (USA)
    Equisingularity theory
  5. Maria Evelina Rossi, Università di Genova (Italy)
    Hilbert functions and Hilbert coefficients in local rings
    lectures
  6. Bernd Sturmfels, University of California at Berkeley (USA)
    Tropical algebra
  7. Bernd Ulrich, Purdue University (USA)
    Rees algebras, integral closures and adjoint ideals
Mathematicians from the Americas at the peridoctoral stage (meaning those who are close to finishing the doctorate or have recently finished) attending the school will be fully supported through funds made available by the National Science Foundation via the PASI program. These junior mathematicians will be selected after a careful screening process (see the online application page for details; application deadline: March 15, 2009).
The lecturers
The lecturers and Wolmer
The lecturers
The lecturers and Wolmer