The Introductory Workshop for MSRI’s year-long program in Commutative Algebra will be held September 9-13. Invited speakers include David Benson (University of Georgia), David Eisenbud (MSRI), Mark Haiman (UC Berkeley), Melvin Hochster (University of Michigan), Rob Lazarsfeld (University of Michigan), and Bernard Teissier.
See the workshop page on the MSRI site for more information.
Update (9 August 2002): There are now abstracts of the main lectures and a schedule available on the workshop page.
Update (10 Sept 2002): Watch this space for links to the lecture notes for the main speakers of the workshop. There will also be streaming video feeds of the lectures. And photos!
Update (13 Sept 2002): Lecture notes are beginning to be available for the main lectures. Use the links below to view the notes:
- Dave Benson: Commutative algebra and the cohomology of groups
- David Eisenbud: The geometry of syzygies (This link is to the current version of Eisenbud’s forthcoming book of the same title.)
- Mark Haiman: Commutative algebra of N points in the plane: notes in .ps or .pdf
- Melvin Hochster: Tight closure
- Rob Lazarsfeld: An introduction to multiplier ideals (dead link to lecture notes removed 24 May 2011)
- Bernard Teissier: Monomial ideals, binomial ideals, polynomial ideals
Update (25 Sept 2002): Streaming video and student lecture notes are now available for these lectures.