April, 4

Speaker:  Thai T Nguyen, Tulane University

Title:  Chudnovsky's Conjecture for General Points

Abstract:  Chudnovsky’s Conjecture suggests lower bounds for the degrees of elements in the symbolic powers of the defining ideal of a set of finitely many points in projective space. In this talk, we will discuss some recent developments on this conjecture with focus on results for general points. I will also present a result for sufficiently large number of general points from our joint work with Sankhaneel Bisui, Eloísa Grifo and Tài Huy Hà; and a more recent result for a smaller number of general points from our joint work with Sankhaneel Bisui.

 March 28 

Speaker:  Janet Vassilev, University of New Mexico

Title:  Dualizing operations defined via colons

Abstract:  Building on the duality for submodule selectors developed by Epstein and R.G., we develop a duality between pairs of modules, which we use to produce a dual interior operation for basically full closure on a pair of Artinian modules called basically empty interior which also has a nice formula in terms of colons. Through our duality, we are also able to develop criteria for when a submodule of the injective hull of the residue field is integrally open and formulas to compute the integral-hull of some submodules of the injective hull of the residue field. This is talk is based on joint work with Epstein and R.G.

March 14 

Speaker:  Marco Abbadini, University Of Salerno, Italy 

Title:  Free extension of universal algebras

Abstract:  Given an equational class of algebras (such as groups, Boolean algebras, etc.), and a fixed sublanguage of this class (such as monoid operations, lattice operations, etc.), we can show the equivalence of two properties. The first, which is called free extension property, is more semantic: it concerns extensions of certain partial functions to homomorphisms. Whereas the second, called expressibility of equations, is concerned with terms and identities, thus being more syntactic.

February 28 

Speaker: Art Duval, UT El Paso

Title: Enumerating simplicial spanning trees of shifted and color-shifted complexes, using simplicial effective resistance  

Abstract: Simplicial electrical networks generalize electrical networks from graphs to higher dimensional simplicial complexes, where resistances, currents, and voltages on the facets of the complex satisfy a generalized Ohm’s law. Simplicial effective resistance, developed by Kook and Lee, generalizes to this setting the notion of effective resistance, which is the resistance of a new facet required to replace a network of resistors. We use simplicial effective resistance to enumerate the simplicial spanning trees of shifted complexes, reproving a known result, and of color-shifted complexes, proving a previously conjectured result.