Midwest Algebraic Geometry Conference
November 7 to 9, 1997
at
The University of Notre Dame

Invited Speakers:

Organizing Committee: Karen Chandler, Alan Howard, Juan Migliore, Christopher Peterson, Joachim Rosenthal, Dennis Snow, Andrew Sommese

Supported by the National Science Foundation, the College of Science, the Department of Mathematics , the Duncan Chair and the Center for Applied Mathematics of the University of Notre Dame.

This web page is organized as follows:

To have your e-mail address added to our distribution list, or to contact the organizers, please send us a note at: magc97@kenna.math.nd.edu (or just click on the address).

Maps, directions and weather. Notre Dame is (essentially) located in South Bend, Indiana. Here is a page with weather information for the Notre Dame area, including a 5-day forecast.

The three primary ways to get here are

If you plan to fly, you should find the prices for the first two options and compare. The second option is usually cheaper (but less convenient) than the first, even though United Limo costs around $55 round trip. It takes roughly three hours to get from O'Hare to Notre Dame by United Limo. You board the bus very near to the baggage claim area (buy a ticket before boarding), and take it all the way to Notre Dame. Once at Notre Dame, you should walk to the Morris Inn (about 300 meters) to call a cab-- there generally are none at the bus stop. To give you an idea, United Limo stops just off the lower left-hand corner of this campus map, and you walk up N. Notre Dame Avenue to the Morris Inn.

Here is a map of South Bend, which includes the location of the Notre Dame campus and the airport/train station (called the "Michiana Regional Transportation Center"). Note that the train station in this map is the South Shore line joining South Bend to Chicago, not the Amtrak station. The math department is in the Computer Center and Mathematics Building (CCMB); Number 74 on the campus map. Number 74 is located in the middle of the far right hand side of the map. Here is another "clickable" map of the Notre Dame campus. You can also get directions to Notre Dame by air, car, bicycle and train. Here is a nice collection of local information.

Support. We have some funds to help support the participation of graduate students, post-doctoral researchers and senior researchers who have no grant support. We particularly encourage people who belong to currently underrepresented groups (minorities and women) to apply. Priority will be given to those in the Midwest. We will begin making decisions after April 30, 1997, as soon thereafter as the grant from the NSF is formally funded.

We now have a form to apply for support. If you are interested in applying, please print it out, fill it out and send it to the address at the bottom of the form.

Proceedings of the Conference. Due to insufficient response, we will not have a proceedings for the conference.

Registration. There will be no registration fee for this conference. However, we now have a registration form. Please click here for a copy. You can print the form and return it to us either by email or by regular mail. (The addresses are on the form.) Please return the form to us by October 1, 1997. Hotel information is included on the form. You can click here to send us an email note about registration.

Accommodations. Here is some preliminary information on accomodations. Please note, however, that when you send us your registration form, you have the option of having us make your hotel reservations for you, and you can indicate your preferences there.

The following hotels have agreed to block off rooms for participants of the conference, for the nights of November 6, 7, and 8.

In the near future we hope to list other hotels in the area, together with some information about pricing and proximity to the conference.

Minisessions. The contributed talks will be organized into minisessions. Each minisession will consist of about four 20-minute talks. The schedule is given below.

Schedule. The following is the schedule for the conference. Clicking on a speakers name will provide you with an abstract of this talk if it is available. You can also access the complete list of abstracts as a plain html file, a compressed postscript file, an uncompressed postscript file, a dvi file or as an ASCII TeX file. Clicking on a building name below links you to a labelled map of the campus.

Friday, November 7, 1997
All talks on Friday are in the Center for Continuing Education (CCE).

8:30-9:00 Registration and Coffee

Contributed
Talks
in CCE aud. 		Contributed
Talks
in CCE 100-104 		Contributed
Talks
In CCE 112-114
9:00-9:20 S-J. Kwak D. Jaffe M. Roczen
9:30-9:50 C. Miyazaki E. Hironaka M. Vitulli
10:00-10:20 K. Yanagawa V. Masek K. Karu
10:30-10:50 A. Iarrobino K-M. Fan L. Ernstrom

11:00-11:30 Break

11:30-12:30 Invited talk, In CCE aud.
A.V. Geramita
"Catalecticant Varieties"

12:30-2:00 Lunch

2:00-3:00 Invited talk, In CCE aud.
L. Ein
"Singularities of divisors, vanishing theorems and
birational geometry of irregular varieties"

3:00-3:30 Break

Contributed
Talks
In CCE aud. 		Contributed
Talks
In CCE 100-104 		Contributed
Talks
In CCE 112-114
3:30-3:50 M. Beltrametti J. Elias J. Brevik
4:00-4:20 G.M. Besana M. Chardin G. Kennedy
4:30-4:50 H. Maeda C. D'Cruz W. Traves
5:00-5:20 S. Kovacs C. Polini A. Mavlyutov
5:30-5:50 D. Hahn B. Purnaprajna A. Kabanov

8:00-10:00 Reception in CCE main lobby

Saturday, November 8, 1997
All talks on Saturday are in DeBartolo Hall (DBRT).

8:30-9:00 Registration and Coffee

9:00 Welcoming Remarks, In DBRT 101
Dean Francis Castellino

9:15-10:15 Invited talk, In DBRT 101
J. Harris
"Cubics"

10:15-11:15 Invited talk, In DBRT 101
W. Fulton
"Chern Class Formulas for Degeneracy Loci"

11:30-12:30 Invited talk, In DBRT 101
K. Smith
"A new look at the singularities in Mori's Program"

12:30-2:00 Lunch

2:00-3:00 Invited talk, In DBRT 101
E. Friedlander
"Filtrations on cycles via Chow correspondences"

3:00-3:30 Break

Contributed
Talks
In DBRT 101 		Contributed
Talks
In DBRT 141 		Contributed
Talks
In DBRT 155
3:30-3:50 P. Miller H. Kley U. Nagel
4:00-4:20 M. O'Sullivan P. Belorousski P. Rao
4:30-4:50 F. Sottile B. Hassett N. Kumar
5:00-5:20 M.S. Ravi R. Vakil
5:30-5:50 A. Wang R. Pandharipande
6:00-6:20 B. Wyman P. Vermeire

6:30- Dinner in the CCE dining area

Sunday, November 9, 1997
All talks on Sunday are in the Center for Continuing Education (CCE).

8:30-9:00 Coffee

9:00-10:00 Invited talk, In CCE aud.
C. Huneke
"Problems in the theory of tight closure"

10:15-11:15 Invited talk, In CCE aud.
D. Eisenbud
"Geometry of the Gale Transform, and Gorenstein sets of points"

Contributed
Talks
In CCE aud. 		Contributed
Talks
In CCE 100-104 		Contributed
Talks
In CCE 112-114
11:30-11:50 H. Boden C. Werner J.M. Rojas
12:00-12:20 A. Szenes D.-Q. Zhang J. Koh

12:30-2:00 Lunch

Contributed
Talks
In CCE aud. 		Contributed
Talks
In CCE 100-104 		Contributed
Talks
In CCE 112-114
2:00-2:20 M. McCormick D. Coventry V. Kanev
2:30-2:50 J-C. Liu E. Esteves C. Grant
3:00-3:20 S. Lee A. Zaharia