Daily Schedule

Locations

All events other than the colloquium and barbecue will take place on the 9th floor of Van Vleck.

	April 14th	April 15th	April 16th	April 17th
8:30-9:00	Discussions	Discussions	Discussions	Discussions
9:00-9:30	Intro to M2@UW	Grad Talks	Grad Talks	Panel on Jobs
9:30-10:00
10:00-10:30	Projects	Projects	Projects	Projects
10:30-11:00
11:00-11:30
11:30-12:00
12:00-12:30	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch / WIMAW Lunch	Lunch
12:30-1:00
1:00-1:30
1:30-2:00				Project Recaps
2:00-2:30	Projects	Projects	Projects
2:30-3:00				Projects
3:00-3:30
3:30-4:00			Cookies & Tea
4:00-4:30	Short Talks	Panel on Computation	Colloquium
4:30-5:00
6:00 +		BBQ @ Daniel's

Presentation Information

• April 14th (Short Talks)

  • Speaker: John Wiltshire-Gordon

  • Title: Automatic Functoriality

  • Abstract: The best constructions in algebra are functorial. As a basic example, suppose you have code that computes the kernel and cokernel of a map. This is great as long as you want individual kernels and cokernels. However, if you have a commuting square of modules, then the two vertical maps induce maps on the kernels and cokernels of the horizontal maps. So you need to implement commuting squares, and then compute the induced maps on ker and coker. But then you realize: a map of commuting squares (a commuting cube) gives rise to a commuting square of kernels! ---and then to a map on cokernels, perhaps, and finally to a single kernel---and therefore you need commuting cubes as well... In this talk, we explain a way to avoid this problem, making constructions automatically functorial using matrices over a category.

  • Speaker: Lily Silverstein

  • Title: Random approaches in computational commutative algebra

  • Abstract: I'll talk about two commutative algebra invariants that are hard to compute in general: Krull dimension and projective dimension of monomial ideals. By considering random instances of these problems, we can give much simpler characterizations of how these invariants behave, which hold with high probability. Concepts which will be made rigorous include: "hard to compute," "random," "simpler," and "with high probability."

• April 15th (Lightning talks)

  • 9:00 - Matthew
  • 9:06 - Brandon
  • 9:12 - Dan Corey
  • 9:18 - Megan
  • 9:24 - Wanlin
  • 9:30 - Joao
  • 9:36 - Bobby
  • 9:42 - Polly
  • 9:48 - Juliette
  • 9:54 - Mike

• April 16th (Colloquium)

  • Speaker: Christine Berkesch Zamaere
  • Title: Free complexes on smooth toric varieties
  • Abstract: Free resolutions have been a key part of using homological algebra to compute and characterize geometric invariants over projective space. Over more general smooth toric varieties, this is not the case. We will discuss the another family of complexes, called virtual resolutions, which appear to play the role of free resolutions in this setting. This is joint work with Daniel Erman and Gregory G. Smith.

• April 16th (Lightning talks)

  • 9:00 - Dane
  • 9:06 - Aida
  • 9:12 - Ayah
  • 9:18 - Justin Chen
  • 9:24 - Thomas
  • 9:30 - Dylan
  • 9:36 - Amy
  • 9:42 - Joseph/Jonathan
  • 9:48 - Michael Perlman

• April 16th (WIMAW Lunch)

  • The Women in Math Association at Wisconsin (WIMAW) will be holding a lunch with the colloquium speaker Christine Berkesch Zamaere (U. Minnesota). Lunch from Glass Nickel Pizza will be provided at Noon. All women and mathematicians of a minority gender are welcome to attend.

• April 17th (Panel On Jobs)

  • Panelists: Christine Berkesch Zamaere, Rachel Davis, and Dave Swinarski
  • Description: This panel will be an opportunity for grads and others to ask questions about different types of jobs, including postdocs and academic jobs with various different balances between research and teaching.