Publications and Research in Progress

Publications Integral extensions and the $a$-invariant (with A. Kustin and B. Ulrich), submitted.
  j-multiplicity and the depth of associated graded modules (with Y. Xie), submitted.
  A study of singularities on rational curves via syzygies (with D. Cox, A. Kustin, and B. Ulrich), to appear in Mem. Amer. Math. Soc..
  Rational normal scrolls and the defining equations of Rees algebras (with A. Kustin and B. Ulrich), J. reine angew. Math. 650 (2011), 23-65.
  Annihilators of Graded Components of the Canonical Module and the Core of Standard Graded Algebras (with L. Fouli and B. Ulrich), Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 362 (2010), 6183-6203.
  Divisors on rational normal scrolls (with A. Kustin and B. Ulrich), J. Algebra 332 (2009), 1748-1773.
  The core of ideals in arbitrary characteristic (with L. Fouli and B. Ulrich), Michigan Math. J. 57 (2008), 305-319.
  The core of zero-dimensional monomial ideals (with B. Ulrich and M. Vitulli), Adv. Math. 72 (2007), 72-93.
  Hilbert coefficients of ideals with a view toward blowup algebras (with A. Corso), in Syzygies and Hilbert Functions, Lecture Notes in Pure and Applied Mathematics 254 (2007), 41-65.
  Multiplicity of the special fiber of blowups (with A. Corso and W. Vasconcelos), Math. Proc. Camb. Philos. Soc. 140 (2006), 207-219.
  Normalization of ideals and Briançon-Skoda numbers (with B. Ulrich and W. Vasconcelos), Math. Res. Lett. 12 (2005), 10001-10016.
  Depth of associated graded rings via Hilbert coefficients of ideals (with A. Corso and M. Rossi), J. Pure Appl. Algebra 201 (2005), 126-141.
  A formula for the core of an ideal (with B. Ulrich), Math. Ann. 331 (2005), 89-105.
  Core of projective dimension one modules (with A. Corso and B. Ulrich), manuscripta math. 111 (2003), 427-433.
  Cohen-Macaulayness of special fiber rings (with A. Corso, L. Ghezzi and B. Ulrich), Comm. Algebra 31 (special issue in honor of S. Kleiman) (2003), 3713-3734.
  Core and residual intersections of ideals (with A. Corso and B. Ulrich), Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 354 (2002), 2579-2594.
  The structure of the core of ideals (with A. Corso and B. Ulrich), Math. Ann. 321 (2001), 89-105.
  Strongly Cohen-Macaulay ideals of small second analytic deviation (with A. Corso), Bull. London. Math. Soc. 33 (2001), 662-668.
  On residually S2 ideals and projective dimension one modules (with A. Corso), Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 129 (2001), 1309-1315.
  A filtration of the Sally module and the associated graded ring of an ideal, Comm. Algebra 28 (2000), 1335-1341.
  Necessary and sufficient conditions for the Cohen-Macaulayness of blowup algebras (with B. Ulrich), Compositio Math. 119 (1999), 185-207.
  Sally modules and associated graded rings (with A. Corso and M. Vaz Pinto), Comm. Algebra 26 (1998), 2689-2708.
  Linkage and reduction numbers (with B. Ulrich), Math. Ann. 310 (1998), 631-651.
  Reduction number of links of irreducible varieties (with A. Corso), J. Pure & Appl. Algebra 121 (1997), 29-43.
  Links of prime ideals and their Rees Algebra (with A. Corso), J. Algebra 178 (1995), 224-238.
  Studies on Singularities, Thesis, Rutgers University, 1995.
  Links of prime ideals (with A. Corso and W.V. Vasconcelos), Math. Proc. Camb. Phil. Soc. 115 (1994), 431-436.
  On approximate modeling of linear Gaussian processes (with A. Gombani), in New Directions in Time Series Analysis Part II, The IMA volumes in Mathematics and its Applications 46, Springer-Verlag (1991), 177-193.

Book Edited Commutative Algebra and Its Connections to Geometry
(A. Corso and C. Polini, Eds.),
Contemp. Math. 555, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 2011.

  Algebra, Geometry and their Interactions: MAGIC'05
(A. Corso, J. Migliore and C. Polini, Eds.),
Contemp. Math. 448, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 2007.

  Commutative Algebra. Interactions with Algebraic Geometry
(L. Avramov, M. Chardin, C. Polini and M. Morales Eds.),
Contemp. Math. 331, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 2003.

Work in Progress Indices of Normalization of Ideals (with B. Ulrich, W. Vasconcelos and R. Villarreal), preprint.
  The bigraded structure of Symmetric Algebras with applications to Rees rings (with A. Kustin and B. Ulrich), preprint.
  Blowups and fibers of morphisms (with A. Kustin and B. Ulrich), in preparation.
  The core of monomial ideals (with B. Ulrich), in preparation.