Affine Algebraic Geometry. A Conference in honour of Peter Russell

June 1-5, 2009

Program
 

Monday, June 1, 2009
09:15 - 09:30
Registration and Coffee
Room 920, Burnside Hall, McGill University


Meeting room : 920, Burnside Hall, McGill University

09:30 - 10:20
Paul Roberts
(University of Utah)
Almost Cohen-Macaulay algebras
Abstract
10:30 - 11:20
Vikram Mehta
(Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)
The conjectures of Nori and Denninger-Werner and the local fundamental group-scheme
Abstract
11:20 - 11:50
Coffee break
11:50 - 12:40
Masayoshi Miyanishi
(Kwansei Gakuin University)
Characteristic $p$ phenomena in affine geometry
Abstract

12:40 - 15:00
Lunch break


Meeting room : 920, Burnside Hall, McGill University

15:00 - 15:50
Matam Pavaman Murthy
(University of Chicago)
Unimodular Rows
Abstract
15:50 - 16:20
Coffee break
16:20 - 17:10
Yoshifumi Takeda
(Wakayama Medical University)
Groups of Russell type and Tango structures
Abstract

 

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Meeting room : 920, Burnside Hall, McGill University

09:30 - 10:20
Herbert Kurke
(Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin)
TBA
10:30 - 11:20
Marko Roczen
(Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Motivic invariants of isolated singularities
Abstract
11:20 - 11:50
Coffee break
11:50 - 12:40
Stepan Orevkov
(Université Paul Sabatier)
On algebraic and psedoholomorphic plane curves
Abstract

12:40 - 15:00
Lunch break


Meeting room : 920, Burnside Hall, McGill University

15:00 - 15:50
Avinash Sathaye
(University of Kentucky)
Discriminant of a curve with two places at infinity
Abstract
15:50 - 16:20
Coffee break
16:20 - 17:10
Pierrette Cassou-Noguès
(Université Bordeaux 1)
Rational polynomials and Danielewski surfaces
Abstract

 

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Meeting room : 920, Burnside Hall, McGill University

09:30 - 10:20
David Wright
(Washington University in St. Louis)
Commutator formulas for polynomial automorphisms
Abstract
10:30 - 11:20
Steven Shin-Yi Lu
(UQAM)
Curves on surfaces of log-general type
Abstract
11:20 - 11:50
Coffee break
11:50 - 12:40
Shigeru Kuroda
(Tokyo Metropolitan University)
Initial algebras and the Jung-van der Kulk theorem
Abstract

12:40 - 15:00
Lunch break


Meeting room : 920, Burnside Hall, McGill University

15:00 - 15:50
Jason Bell
(Simon Fraser University)
Automorphisms of affine varieties and the Skolem-Mahler-Lech theorem
Abstract
15:50 - 16:20
Coffee break
16:20 - 16:45
Karol Palka
(Polish Academy of Sciences)
Singular $Q$-homology planes
Abstract
16:50 - 17:15
TBA

 

Thursday, June 4, 2009

Meeting room : 920, Burnside Hall, McGill University

09:30 - 10:20
Kayo Masuda
(Kwansei Gakuin University)
Homogeneous locally nilpotent derivations and embeddings of affine spaces
Abstract
10:30 - 11:20
Stéphane Vénéreau
(Universität Basel)
On finding variables in $k[X,Y,Z_1,\dots ,Z_n]$
Abstract
11:20 - 11:50
Coffee break
11:50 - 12:40
Zbigniew Jelonek
(Polish Academy of Sciences)
How to constructs varieties without cancellation property?
Abstract

12:40 - 15:00
Lunch break


Meeting room : 920, Burnside Hall, McGill University

15:00 - 15:50
Lucy Moser-Jauslin
(Université de Bourgogne)
Some results on the Koras-Russell cubic threefold
Abstract
15:50 - 16:20
Coffee break
16:20 - 17:10
Gene Freudenburg
(Western Michigan University)
Embeddings of sffine space using Chebyshev polynomials and their successors
Abstract

 

Friday, June 5, 2009

Meeting room : 920, Burnside Hall, McGill University

09:30 - 10:20
Mariusz Koras
(Warsaw University)
Linearization of $C^*$-actions and related problems
Abstract
10:30 - 11:20
Daniel Daigle
(Université d'Ottawa)
Hypersurfaces of $\mathbb{A}^3$ with trivial Makar-Limanov invariant
Abstract
11:20 - 11:50
Coffee break
11:50 - 12:40
Hubert Flenner
(Ruhr University Bochum)
Uniqueness of $\mathbf C^*$-action
Abstract

12:40 - 15:00
Lunch break


Meeting room : 920, Burnside Hall, McGill University

15:00 - 15:50
Vladimir Popov
(Steklov Mathematical Institut)
Two orbits: when is one in the closure of the other?
Abstract
15:50 - 16:20
Coffee break
16:20 - 17:10
Rajendra Vasant Gurjar
(Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)
Some inequalities between order of the divisor class group and multiplicity of rational surface singularities
Abstract

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