School: Algebraic Geometry and Algebraic Combinatorics

May 21-25, 2007

Program

 

Monday, May 21, 2007

09:00 - 09:30
Registration and Coffee & Croissants
Room 1221


Meeting room : 1360

09:30 - 10:30
Monica Vazirani
(UC Davis)
Finite and Affine Hecke Algebras I
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
Room 1221
11:00 - 12:00
Ezra N. Miller
(University of Minnesota)
Toric ideals

12:00 - 14:00
Lunch Break


Meeting room : 1360

14:00 - 15:00
Session of practical exercices and calculus
15:00 - 15:30
Coffee break
Room 1221
15:30 - 16:30
Gregory G. Smith
(Queen's University)
Polytopes and their associated toric varieties I

 

Tuesday, May 22, 2007

09:00 - 09:30
Coffee & Croissants
Room 1221


Meeting room : 1360

09:30 - 10:30
Monica Vazirani
(UC Davis)
Finite and Affine Hecke Algebras II
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
Room 1221
11:00 - 12:00
Ezra N. Miller
(University of Minnesota)
Binomial primary decomposition

12:00 - 14:00
Lunch Break


Meeting room : 1360

14:00 - 15:00
Session of practical exercices and calculus
15:00 - 15:30
Coffee break
Room 1221
15:30 - 16:30
Gregory G. Smith
(Queen's University)
Polytopes and their associated toric varieties II

 

Wednesday, May 23, 2007

09:00 - 09:30
Coffee & Croissants
Room 1221


Meeting room : 1360

09:30 - 10:30
Monica Vazirani
(UC Davis)
Combinatorics of $S_n$, $\widehat{sl}_n$ and crystals
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
Room 1221
11:00 - 12:00
Ezra N. Miller
(University of Minnesota)
Introduction to D-modules

12:00 - 14:00
Lunch Break


Meeting room : 1360

14:00 - 15:00
Session of practical exercices and calculus
15:00 - 15:30
Coffee break
Room 1221
15:30 - 16:30
Gregory G. Smith
(Queen's University)
f-vectors and Hilbert functions

 

Thursday, May 24, 2007

09:00 - 09:30
Coffee & Croissants
Room 1221


Meeting room : 1360

09:30 - 10:30
Monica Vazirani
(UC Davis)
Representation Theory of Affine Hecke Algebras
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
Room 1221
11:00 - 12:00
Ezra N. Miller
(University of Minnesota)
Hypergeometric systems

12:00 - 14:00
Lunch Break


Meeting room : 1360

14:00 - 15:00
Session of practical exercices and calculus
15:00 - 15:30
Coffee break
Room 1221
15:30 - 16:30
Gregory G. Smith
(Queen's University)
Minkowski sums and defining equations for toric varieties I

 

Friday, May 25, 2007

09:00 - 09:30
Coffee & Croissants
Room 1221


Meeting room : 1360

09:30 - 10:30
Monica Vazirani
(UC Davis)
Combinatorics and Representation Theory of Affine Hecke Algebras
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
11:00 - 12:00
Ezra N. Miller
(University of Minnesota)
Euler-Koszul homology

12:00 - 14:00
Lunch Break


Meeting room : 1360

14:00 - 15:00
Session of practical exercices and calculus
15:00 - 15:30
Coffee break
Room 1221
15:30 - 16:30
Gregory G. Smith
(Queen's University)
Minkowski sums and defining equations for toric varieties II