NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY
MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT
 
Geometry-Algebra-Singularities-Combinatorics 
Seminar

Winter 2000


Date Speaker Title
January 18 (note special date) Lê Dung Tráng 
(Université de Provence) 		Rational Trees 
January 24 Lev Birbrair
(Universidade Federal do Ceara, Brazil) 		Normal Embeddings of Singularities 
January 25 (note special date) Ha Huy Tái 
(Queens University) 		On the Rees algebra of certain codimension 2 perfect ideals 
January 31 Andrei Zelevinsky 
(Northeastern University) 		Generalized Littlewood-Richardson coefficients, canonical bases and total positivity 
February 7 Dale Cutkosky 
(University of Missouri, visiting Northeastern) 		Asymptotic Regularity and Seshadri constants  
February 14 Hema Srinivasan 
(University of Missouri, visiting Northeastern) 		Multiplicities of graded algebras  
February 21 Dave Massey 
(Northeastern University) 		The vanishing index theorem and perverse cohomology 
February 28 Sergei Chmutov 
(Mount Holyoke College) 		Strangeness type invariants of immersed plane curves 
March 6 Andrei Caldararu 
(Cornell University) 		Counterexamples to Torelli, Elliptic Threefolds and Twisted Sheaves 

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.
Here are some directions on how to get to the Seminar.

Seminar organizers

Marc Levine
marc@neu.edu
Hal Schenck
schenck@neu.edu
Andrei Zelevinsky
andrei@neu.edu

Past and Present Seminars

Spring 1998  |    Fall 1998  |    Winter 1999   |    Spring 1999   |    Fall 1999

Math Seminars Web page:  Alexandru I. Suciu Started: April 22, 1998.  Last modified: January 3, 2000
Math Department Maintained by:  Hal Schenck URL: http://www.math.neu.edu/GASC/mathindex.html