Name:  Irena Peeva
Position:  Associate Professor, Cornell University
Address:  Department of Mathematics
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853, U.S.A.
Office: 547 Malott Hall
Phone: +1 (607) 255-4365
E-mail:  irena@math.cornell.edu
Research:  Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry
Ph.D. Thesis:  Free Resolutions, 1995, Brandeis University
Ph.D. Advisor:  D. Eisenbud


RESEARCH INTERESTS: My research is broad and at the interface between the fields of Commutative Algebra, Algebraic Geometry, and Combinatorics. I have worked on problems involving free resolutions, toric varieties, Hilbert schemes, complete intersections, subspace arrangements, monomial resolutions, Gröbner basis, Koszul algebras, shellings, and Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity.

Some of my research interests are focused on the structure of free resolutions and their applications. I study resolutions over polynomial rings and their quotients. In essence constructing a resolution over a ring R consists of repeatedly solving systems of R-linear equations. From another point of view, resolutions provide a homological method for describing the structure of modules (the idea to associate a resolution to a module was introduced in Hilbert's famous 1890,1893-papers).


   
 
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