UC Berkeley, Fall 2002: Combinatorial Commutative Algebra


This class (Math 274) was taught by Bernd Sturmfels using material from his forthcoming joint book with Ezra Miller

Eleven graduate students wrote the following very nice term papers: (Please e-mail your comments to the authors !!!)

Michael Develin: A complexity bound on faces of the hull complex

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    Christopher Hillar: Iterated line intersections in the plane

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    James Kelley: Regularity of powers of ideals with linear resolutions

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    Amit Khetan: Macaulay style formulas for toric residues

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    George Kirkup: Perfect tables

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    Nicholas Proudfoot: On the h-vector of a matroid complex

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    Brian Rothbach: Strictly upper triangular matrices with square zero

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    David Speyer: Generic lex-initial ideals of complex intersections

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    Seth Sullivant: Tight closure of monomial ideals in Fermat rings

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    Soroosh Yazdani: Schubert polynomials and Schubert varieties

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    Alexander Woo: The most singular point on a Schubert variety

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