Adam Boocher I'm a fourth year Mathematics Graduate Student at the University of California, Berkeley. My interests lie in commutative algebra and algebraic geometry My advisor is David Eisenbud Email: Office: 747 Evans Mailing address: 1802 Bonita Ave APT 1 Berkeley, CA 94709

Papers 'n Stuff Blog MGSA Organ

Fall 11

• Teaching: Math 55
• Student Algebraic Geometry Seminar and DE's Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Spring and Summer 11

• Purdue Commutative Algebra Conference
• Monomial Ideals in Spain
• Student Algebraic Geometry Seminar and DE's Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Fall 10

• Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry Seminar
• Math 275 Geometry of Convex Optimization (Bernd Sturmfels)
• Student Algebraic Geometry Seminar
• Maybe Borcherd's QFT or Alg. Geometry?

Summer 10

• Teaching: Math 53
• Trieste School/Conference.

Spring 10

• Teaching: Math 1B
• Student Algebraic Geometry Seminar
• Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry Seminar
• Intersection Theory (D. Eisenbud)

Fall 09

• Teaching: Math 1A
• Student Algebraic Geometry Seminar
• Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Summer 09

• PASI Commutative Algebra School / Conference (Olinda, Brazil)
  
• Toric Varieties Workshop (MSRI)

Spring 09

• Math 256B: Algebraic Geometry (Arthur Ogus)
  
• Math 274:Tropical Geometry (Bernd Sturmfels)
  
• Algebraic Geometry Semester at MSRI
  
• MAGIC Seminar
  
• I passed my qualifying exam on May 4, 2009
  • Syllabus and an account of the exam.

Fall 08

• Math 250A: Algebraic Geometry (Arthur Ogus)
  
• Math261A: Lie Groups (Mark Haiman)
• Commutative Algebra & Algebraic Geometry Seminar (organized by David Eisenbud)
• RAG Seminar (organized by David Eisenbud and Daniel Erman)
• Student Algebraic and Arithmetic Geometry Seminar (organized by David Brown, Daniel Erman and Tony Varilly)
• HARD Seminar Homological Algebra (Co-organized with George Melvin)
• Hartshorne Problem Study Group (Organized by Pablo Solis)

Summer 08

• This summer I had the great joy to direct a reading REU at the University of Notre Dame. I worked with three undergraduate students, Josh Mollner, Kaitlyn Moran and Emma Whitten on the topic of algebraic geometry. Their papers and presentations from this summer are posted below. I'm really happy with how they turned out. I think they would be good for a first read in any of these interesting areas.
• Papers
  • Don't Stop Believin' there are Group Laws on the Cubics
  • Grobner Bases and their Applications
  • Resolution of Singularities in Algebraic Varieties
• Presentations
  • Blowups of Algebraic Varieties
  • Don't Stop Believin' There's a Group Law on the Cubic

Theater Curtains!