IRENA PEEVA
Ph.D. (1995) Brandeis University
Advisor: David Eisenbud
Honors:
2004-2009 NSF CAREER Grant: Free resolutions
Dec. 2006 Cornell Math. Dept. Teaching Award
                (for distinguished service, and clear and invigorating teaching of mathematics)
1999-2001 Sloan Research Fellowship
1995-1998 C. L. E. Moore Instructorship at MIT
1994-1995 Sloan Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
Since 1997,  continuous NSF support


    Conferences organized:

  1. Workshop on resolutions and the Boij-Soederberg Conjecture, (supported by NSF), Cornell University, March 2008.
  2. Free resolutions, Special Session at the AMS Meeting in Chicago, Oct. 2007, (organized jointly with Noam Horwitz).
  3. Syzygies and Hilbert Functions, Banff International Research Meeting, Canada, Oct. 2006, (organized jointly with Michael Stillman).
  4. Summer School on Free Resolutions, (supported by NSF), Cornell University, May 2006.
  5. Syzygies in Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry, Special Session at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in San Antonio, Jan. 2006, (organized jointly with S. Popescu and G. Smith).
  6. Resolutions, Special Session at the AMS Meeting in Eugene, Nov. 2005, (organized jointly with Christopher Francisco).
  7. Hilbert functions and Syzygies, Special Session at the joint Meeting of the American Mathematical Society (AMS), Deutsche Mathematiker Vereinigung (DMV), and the Oesterreichische Mathematische Gesellschaft (OMG), in Mainz, Germany, June 2005, (organized jointly with Uwe Nagel and Tim Roemer).
  8. Workshop on Resolutions for young researchers, (supported by NSF), Cornell University, Oct. 2004.
  9. Combinatorial Commutative Algebra, Meeting at the Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, Oberwolfach, Germany, July 2004, (organized jointly with Volkmar Welker).
  10. Hilbert functions and Syzygies, Special Session at the AMS Meeting in Tallahassee, March 2004, (organized jointly with Christopher Francisco).
  11. Commutative Algebra, Special Session at the AMS Meeting in Montreal, May 2002, (organized jointly with Hema Srinivasan).
  12. Algebraic Geometry and Commutative Algebra, Special Session at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in Washington D.C., Jan. 2000, (organized jointly with Hema Srinivasan).
  13. Syzygies, Lowell, Apr. 2000.
  14. Commutative Algebra, Special Session at the AMS Meeting in New York, Nov. 2000, (organized jointly with Luchezar Avramov).
  15. 10'th Route 81 Conference on Algebraic Geometry and Commutative Algebra, Cornell University, Oct. 2000, (organized jointly with Leah Gold and Mike Stillman).
  16. Commutative Algebra, Special Session at the AMS Meeting in Chicago, Sept. 1998, (organized jointly with Mike Stillman).
  17. Commutative Algebra, Special Session at the AMS Meeting in Montreal, Sept. 1997, (organized jointly with Hema Srinivasan).
  18. 6'th Route 81 Conference on Algebraic Geometry and Commutative Algebra, SUNY at Albany, Oct. 1996, (organized jointly with Hara Charalambous).
  19. Workshop on Regularity of Toric Varieties, University of California at Berkeley, March 1996.