MIDWEST COMMUTATIVE ALGEBRA AND GEOMETRY MEETING: A CONFERENCE IN HONOR OF JOSEPH LIPMAN
Commutative algebra has seen a great deal of activity and success over the past two decades, with the solution of important conjectures, the development of new directions, and the discovery of unexpected connections to other parts of mathematics, ranging from topology to combinatorics and from computer algebra to statistics.
Perhaps the most fruitful interaction remains the one between commutative algebra and algebraic geometry. Our conference will continue the long standing tradition of Midwest meetings in these fields. We will bring together many of the leading national and international experts on the following topics that have been of central importance to both areas: - Resolution of singularities - Singularity theory - Rees algebras and Briancon-Skoda theorems - Duality theory and homological algebra.
