Rt. 81 conference in honor of Graham Evans
and
Workshop on Resolutions (for young researchers)

Dates: The Rt. 81 conference will take place on Oct. 2-3,2004. The Workshop on Resolutions will take place Sep.30-Oct.4, 2004.

Location: Mathematics Department, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.

Organizers: Mike Stillman and Irena Peeva.

Workshop on Resolutions: The following mathematicians will participate in the Workshop: Guilio Caviglia, Brian Coolen, Susan Cooper, Kia Dalili, Sara Faridi, Chris Francisco, Ping Li, Diane Maclagan, Jeff Mermin, Ben Richert, Sean Sather-Wagstaff, Achilleas Sinefakopoulos, Greg Smith, Alex Tchernev. Each participant is invited to give a talk. On Thursday, the lectures will take place in Room 205 and will start at 3 pm. On Friday, the lectures will take place in Rooms 205 and 230, and will start at 9 am. On Monday the lectures will take place in Room 420C, and will start at 9 am.

Rt.81 conference: This year the route 81 conference is in honor of Graham Evans' retirement. Many of his co-authors, friends, and students are planning on attending. The lectures will take place in Room 406.

Dinners: The conference dinner will take place on Saturday, Oct. 2. After dinner (probably around 8:30), there will be a dessert and wine party at Mike Stillman's.
On Friday several groups will go to local restaurants. We will meet at 5:30 in the Mathematics Department Lounge, or at 5:45 at the Grayhaven Motel, or at 5:45 at the Hillside Inn, and then we will all meet at 6:15 in the Commons (in front of the Madeline's Restaurant).

Schedule:
Saturday
8:30-9:00 coffee in the lounge
9:00-9:50 A. Geramita (Queen's Univ., Canada, and Universita' di Genova, Italy):
Secant Varieties of Segre Varieties
10:10-10:45 H. Charalambous (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, and SUNY Albany):
Resolutions obtained by iterated mapping cones
11:00-11:50 C. Huneke (Univ. of Kansas):
Syzygies, regularity, and ideals with three generator
12:00-2:00 Lunch
2:00-2:50 TBA
2:50-3:40 Coffee Break in the lounge
3:40-4:15 C. Francisco (Univ. of Missouri):
Resolving small sets of fat points in general position
4:30- 5:20 W. Bruns (Univ. of Osnabrueck, Germany):
Conic divisor classes and Hilbert-Kunz functions
Sunday
8:00-8:30 coffee in the lounge
8:30 -9:20 D. Eisenbud (MSRI and Univ. of California at Berkeley):
Resolutions for Monomial Ideals
9:35-10:10 B. Richert (CalPoly):
The Eisenbud-Green-Harris conjecture
10:15 We will arrange transportation for those
of you who will need to get to the Ithaca Airport.
afternoon We will have a social hike/walk on Sunday afternoon,
for people who can stay until Monday.


Ithaca Area Weather

Travel by air: The simplest is to fly to Ithaca Airport (served by US Air).
Another option is to fly to Syracuse and drive to Ithaca (about 1 hour drive).

From Ithaca Airport to the Math. Dept.: The easiest is to use the limo service there (actually, a van service). You could go to Ground Transportation (located at the airport), or call 607-273-3030, 607-273-3072.
Another option is to take bus #31 at the Airport (7:21AM, 7:53AM, 8:33AM, 9:13AM, 9:53AM, 11:15AM, 12:15PM, 1:15PM, 2:15PM, 3:01PM, 3:41PM, 4:21PM, 5:01PM, 5:41PM, 6:21PM, 7:01PM, 7:41PM, 11:06PM) and get off at the stop "Kennedy Hall" (close to the corner of Tower Rd. and Garden Ave). There is no service on Saturday and Sunday. More info on the bus system can be found here.

Travel by car:

On Saturday and Sunday you can park in the parking lot in front of Malott Hall.
Otherwise, you should first stop at the INFO BOOTH (see the campus map) on Hoy Road in order to purchase a parking permit, and then park on the top of the G-parking which is across from the INFO BOOTH.

Visiting Cornell University (maps, info)
The Cornell Mathematics Department is in Malott Hall, located at the corner of Tower Rd. and Garden Ave.

Lodging: Due to an event at Ithaca College, there are very few hotel rooms available.