Algebraic Geometry and Commutative Algebra
A conference to celebrate Robin Hartshorne's 70th Birthday
University of Illinois at Chicago
April 11-13, 2008






Schedule of Talks

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Friday April 11, 2008

Lectures will be in SEO 636 except for Hartshorne's Colloquium and Marta Casanellas' talk which will be in Lecture Center D4

April 11
1:40 pm - 2:40 pm
Juan Migliore (Notre Dame)
Extending (and not extending) a theorem of Gaeta
April 11
3 pm - 4 pm
Robin Hartshorne (UC Berkeley)
On Noether's theorem
April 11
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Marta Casanellas (Barcelona)
ACM bundles on cubic surfaces

Saturday April 12, 2008

Lectures will be in Lecture Center D1

BREAKFAST 9:00
April 12
10 am -11 am
David Mumford (Brown University)
Euclid's heritage vs. Medieval Indian Mathematics: Discovering Math in 2 totally different Orders
April 12
11:30 am - 12:30 am
Melvin Hochster (U Michigan)
Latent regular sequences and content of local cohomology
April 12
2 pm - 3 pm
Craig Huneke (Kansas)
The topology of symbolic powers
April 12
3:15 pm - 4:15 pm
Ignacio Sols (Madrid)
Hermite-Einstein equations and projective moduli of stable principal bundles
April 12
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Mark Gross (San Diego)
The Tropical Vertex

Sunday April 13, 2008

Lectures will be in Lecture Center D1

BREAKFAST 8:15
April 13
9 am - 10am
Robin Hartshorne (UC Berkeley)
Moduli of simple vector bundles
April 13
10:30am - 11:30am
Tommaso de Fernex (Utah)
Deformations of Fano varieties
April 13
12:00 - 1 pm
Rob Lazarsfeld (U Michigan)
Convex bodies associated to linear series
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