Symmetries and Singularities in Texas

Conference at Texas A&M University from January 31, 2025 to February 2, 2025. Welcome to the conference webpage!



The two primary goals of the conference are (i) to expose graduate students and young researchers at A&M and in the region to current research in commutative algebra, and (ii) to bring open questions in commutative algebra arising in applications to the attention of core commutative algebraists.

Format: There will be an initial one hour talk Friday afternoon by Matteo Varbaro. On Saturday and Sunday there will be four two-part talks (each totaling 40 × 2 = 80 minutes), with the first part being elementary and setting a context for the research part of the talk. In addition to the lectures, there will be a session describing open problems in commutative algebra arising from application areas such as classical linear algebra and complexity theory. Extended abstracts of the talks are below.

Speakers: Hai Long Dao, University of Kansas. | Linquan Ma, Purdue University. | Anurag Singh, University of Utah. | Matteo Varbaro, U. Genova. | Emily Witt, University of Kansas.


Schedule: Friday 1/31: 5-6pm Matteo Varbaro
                   Saturday 2/1: 8:30-9 breakfast 
                                            9-9:40+9:50-10:30 Anurag Sing

                                            11-11:40 application talk 1 (H. Huang)
                                           11:50-12:30 application talk 2 (T. Mandziuk) 
                                            12:30-2:30 lunch
                                            2:30-3:10+3:20-4 Emily Witt
                                            4:30-5:10+5:20-6 Linquan Ma
                    Sunday 2/2   8:30-9 breakfast
                                           9-9:40+9:50-10:30 Hai Long Dao                                       

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