IRENA PEEVA born in Sofia, Bulgaria Ph.D. Thesis: Free Resolutions (1995) Advisor: David Eisenbud Honors: 2012-2013 Simons Research Fellowship 2004-2009 NSF CAREER Grant: Free resolutions 1999-2001 Sloan Research Fellowship 1995-1998 C. L. E. Moore Instructorship at MIT 1994-1995 Sloan Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship Dec. 2006 Cornell Math. Dept. Teaching Award                 (nominated by students for clear teaching)

    I have (co)organized the following mathematical events:

1. Syzygies in Algebraic Geometry, with an exploration of a connection with String Theory, Banff International Research Meeting, Canada, Aug. 2012, (organized jointly with Lawrence Ein, David Eisenbud, and Gavril Farkas).
2. Representation Theory, Homological Algebra, and Free Resolutions, MSRI Workshop, Feb. 2013, (organized jointly with L. Avramov and D. Eisenbud).
3. Workshop on the Boij-Soederberg Conjecture, (supported by NSF), March 2008.
4. Syzygies and Hilbert Functions, Banff International Research Meeting, Canada, Oct. 2006, (organized jointly with M. Stillman).
5. Summer School on Free Resolutions, May 2006.
6. 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 U. Nagel and T. Roemer).
7. Combinatorial Commutative Algebra, Meeting at the Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, Oberwolfach, Germany, July 2004, (organized jointly with V. Welker).
8. Commutative Algebra, Special Session at the AMS Meeting in Montreal, May 2002, (organized jointly with H. Srinivasan).
9. Algebraic Geometry and Commutative Algebra, Special Session at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in Washington D.C., Jan. 2000, (organized jointly with H. Srinivasan).
10. Workshop on Regularity of Toric Varieties, University of California at Berkeley, March 1996.