Geometry-Algebra-Singularities-Combinatorics Seminar

NORTHEASTERN U NIVERSITY
MATHEMATICS D EPARTMENT

Geometry-Algebra-Singularities-Combinatorics
Seminar

Spring 2005


Date	Speaker	Title
January 10	Laurentiu-George Maxim University of Pennsylvania	Alexander invariants of hypersurface complements
January 24 Canceled due to snow. Rescheduled to April 11.	John Rhodes Bates College	Algebraic Geometry and Molecular Phylogenetics
January 31	Mark Skandera Dartmouth College	Schur nonnegative polynomials
February 7	Jan Kleppe Oslo University College	Classifying families of Gorenstein quotients of e.g. codimension 4 of a polynomial ring
February 14	Alex Suciu Northeastern University	Graphs, groups, and cohomology
March 7	Andrew Kustin University of South Carolina	Linkage and Tor-algebra operations of codimension four Gorenstein rings
March 14	Richard Weiss Tufts University	The classification of spherical buildings
March 14 3:00-4:00 p.m. Note special time!	Thomas Geisser University of Southern California	Arithmetic cohomology and special values of zeta functions
March 21	Jim Propp University of Wisconsin-Madison	The combinatorics of Markoff numbers
March 28	Bridgette Servatius Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Rigidity and global rigidity
April 4	Egon Schulte Northeastern University	Reflection groups and polytopes over finite fields
April 11	John Rhodes Bates College	Algebraic Geometry and Molecular Phylogenetics

The Seminar is usually held on Mondays, from 1:30 to 2:30 pm, in 509 Lake Hall.
For the announcement of a talk, click on the corresponding title.

Seminar Organizers

Northeastern University	Web page: Marc Levine . Comments to: marc@neu.edu
Mathematics Department	Started : April 22, 1998. Last modified: March 9, 2005
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