SCHEDULE

Friday evening
Informal gathering for dinner on Marshall St.
Meet at 6:00 pm in front of the Panda West Restaurant on Marshall Street. Marshall Street is the east-west street just north of the Sheraton. We will then disperse to various nearby restaurants. This meal will be at each individual person's expense.
8:30 – 9:00
Saturday
Breakfast (coffee, juice, muffins, etc.)
9:00 – 9:45
A function on the set of isomorphism classes in the stable category of maximal Cohen-Macaulay modules over a Gorenstein ring: with applications to liaison theory
abstract
10:00 – 10:45
Non-commutative desingularizations and the global spectrum
Eleonore Faber (U. Toronto)
abstract
10:45 – 11:15
Break (coffee etc.)
11:15 – 12:00
Super-stretched rings
Branden Stone (Bard C.)
abstract
12:00 – 1:30
Lunch
1:30 – 2:15
Markov fibers and toric ideals
Hara Charalambous (Aristotle U. of Thessaloniki)
abstract
2:30 – 3:15
The Action of Spn on Flags(C2n)
Anna Bertiger (U. Waterloo)
abstract
3:15 – 3:45
Break
3:45 – 4:30
The blowup algebras of truncations of complete intersections
Kuei-Nuan Lin (Smith C.)
abstract
4:45 – 5:30
An algorithm to compute a primary decomposition of modules in polynomial rings over the integers
Afshan Sadiq (Superior U., Lahore)
abstract
6:00
Conference Dinner
at China Road. Cost TBA; will be lower for graduate students and postdocs.

LOCATION

All talks will be in 122 Carnegie Library (blue star on the map below) on the Syracuse University campus. Other points of interest are marked in orange (hotels) and green (food).

Parking in the lots next to Carnegie Library is free for the conference. Enter campus from the East, at the corner of Euclid and Comstock.

LODGING

We have reserved a block of 20 rooms (2 beds each) at the Crowne Plaza (orange star on the map above) for the nights of the 18th and 19th. The discounted rate is $115/night. Call (315) 479-7000 and refer to the "Route 81 Math Conference". The deadline for reservations is Friday Oct. 11 (sorry this information was originally omitted from the web page). This hotel is about a 25-minute walk from the department.

The following other hotels may also have open rooms if you call individually, but were too full to reserve a block for us.

Sheraton Syracuse University
about 5 min. walk, on the edge of campus
sheratonsyracuse.com/
Genesee Grande Hotel
~15 min. walk due north of campus
geneseegrande.com/
Parkview Hotel
~20 min walk northwest of campus
theparkviewhotel.com/

ORGANIZERS

Steven P. Diaz
Graham Leuschke
Claudia Miller