
Conference celebrates Brian Harbourne
August 11-12, 2023 | University of Nebraska-Lincoln
We are pleased to announce a conference to celebrate the many accomplishments of Professor Brian Harbourne. The conference will feature plenary talks by experts in algebraic geometry and commutative algebra as well as shorter talks or posters by recent Ph.Ds. Please register by July 1st.
Contact Alexandra Seceleanu with any inquiries about this conference.
Confirmed Speakers
- Cristiano Bocci (University of Siena) slides
- Sandra Di Rocco (KTH Stockholm)
- Eloísa Grifo (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
- Elena Guardo (University of Catania) slides
- Mike Janssen (Dordt University) slides
- Juan Migliore (University of Notre Dame) slides
- Uwe Nagel (University of Kentucky) slides
- Joaquim Roé (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) slides
- Tomasz Szemberg (Pedagogical Institute, Cracow) slides
- Halszka Tutaj-Gasińska (Jagiellonian University, Cracow) slides
Schedule
Friday, August 11
9:00 - 9:15 AM | Registration | |
9:15 - 9:30 AM | Opening Remarks | |
9:30 - 10:20 AM | Tomasz Szemberg | Through base loci towards positivity |
10:30 - 11:00 AM | Coffee Break | |
11:00 - 11:30 AM | Joaquim Roé (virtual) | On the boundary of the Mori cone of general blowups of the plane |
11:40 AM - 12:30 PM | Juan Migliore (virtual) | Star configurations, and their progenitors and descendants |
12:30-2:00 PM | Lunch break | |
2:00 - 2:50 PM | Elena Guardo | Steiner systems and configurations of points |
3:10 - 3:40 PM | Coffee Break | |
3:40 - 4:30 PM | Mike Janssen | On Symbolic Powers of Ideals |
6:00 PM | Reception at the home of Sandeep Holay |
Saturday, August 12
9:00 - 9:30 AM | Sandra Di Rocco (virtual) | Relative Polar Geomerty of Algebraic Data |
9:40 - 10:10 AM | Halszka Tutaj-Gasińska (virtual) | Some constructions of unexpected hypersurfaces |
10:20 - 11:00 AM | Coffee Break | |
11:00 - 11:50 AM | Uwe Nagel | Expect to be Surprised: Brian Harbourne's Contributions on Unexpected Properties |
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Poster Session | |
1:00-2:30 PM | Lunch break | |
2:30 - 3:20 PM | Eloísa Grifo | A survey of Harbourne's Conjecture |
3:30 - 4:00 PM | Coffee Break | |
4:10 - 5:00 PM | Cristiano Bocci | Fantastic points and where to find them |
5:10 - 5:20 PM | Closing Remarks |
Poster Presenters
- Sankhaneel Bisui, Arizona State University, and Thai Than Nguyen, McMaster University
Interpolation-related Bounds - Reid Buchanan, Oklahoma State University
Macaulay Coefficients and Decomposing Lex Segments - Sebastian Calvo, Pennsylvania State University
The Icosahedral Line Configuration and Waldschmidt Constants - Hoai Dao, Oklahoma State University
Resolving powers of the maximal ideal with a hole - Lucja Farnik, Pedagogical University of Cracow
Unexpected cones and geproci sets - Karthik Ganapathy, University of Michigan
The infinite variable polynomial ring in positive characteristic - Allison Ganger and Levi Heath, University of Nebraska
Infinitesimally geproci sets - Sean Grate, Auburn University
Betti tables forcing failure of the Weak Lefschetz Property
- Thiago Holleben, Dalhousie University
Lefschetz properties of squarefree monomial ideals - Arvind Kumar, New Mexico State University
On resurgence numbers of cover ideal of graphs - Manohar Kumar, Indian Institute of Technology Kaharagpur
Regularity comparison of symbolic and ordinary powers of weighted oriented graphs - Nikola Kuzmanovski, University of Nebraska
Generalizations of Macaulay's lex ideal theorem - Adam LaClair, Purdue University
Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity of binomial edge ideals - Cheng Meng, Purdue University
Multiplicities in flat local extensions - Michael Morrow, University of Kentucky
Computing Groebner Bases and Free Resolutions of OI-Modules - Ritvik Ramkumar, Cornell University
Cartwright-Sturmfels ideals and their moduli
- Shahriyar Roshan-Zamir, University of Nebraska
Interpolation in the Weighted Projective Space - Naufil Sakran, Tulane University
Unipotent Numerical Semigroups - Andrew Soto Levins, University of Nebraska
A Rigidity Theorem for Ext - Stephen Stern, University of Nebraska
On Alexander Self-duality - Likun Xie, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
On an Instance of the Small Cohen-Macaulay Conjecture - Frank Zimmitti, University of Nebraska
Unexpectedness stratified by codimension
Organizers
- Susan Cooper, University of Manitoba
- Alexandra Seceleanu, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
- Adam Van Tuyl, McMaster University