Talks, seminars, and lecture series by Ezra Miller

(Last updated October 2009)
133.  Duke U. (CTMS Retreat) Biological and chemical applications of polyhedral geometry and algebra.   23 October 2009
132.  Raleigh, NC (SE Lie Theory): Equivariant transversality and K-theoretic positivity.   9-11 October 2009
131.  NC State (SUM Series): Unfolding polyhedra.   30 September 2009
130.  Duke U. Algebraic Geometry: Combinatorics in cohomology of toric varieties.   23 September 2009
129.  Duke U. Algebraic Geometry: What is a toric variety?   16 September 2009
128.  Halifax, Nova Scotia (Games-At-Dal): Lattice games.   18-21 July 2009
         (canceled due to political unrest) IPM Tehran, Iran: Four lectures on binomial ideals.   20-30 June 2009
127.  Voss, Norway (Abel Symposium): Combinatorial positivity via transversality in homogeneous spaces.   1-4 June 2009
126.  Oberwolfach, Germany: Potential applications of commutative algebra to combinatorial game theory.   19-25 April 2009
125.  Raleigh, NC (AMS meeting): Equivariant positivity via transversality in K-theory of G/P.   4-5 April 2009
124.  Raleigh, NC (AMS meeting): Topological Cohen--Macaulay criteria for monomial ideals.   4-5 April 2009
123.  Raleigh, NC (AMS meeting): Binomial ideals.   4-5 April 2009
122.  MSRI, Berkeley: Equivariant transversality and K-theoretic positivity.   24 March 2009
121.  Thessaloniki, Greece: Geometry of flags and permutations.   12 March 2009
120.  Thessaloniki, Greece: Unfolding polyhedra.   11 March 2009
119.  Ioannina, Greece: Unfolding polyhedra.   9 March 2009
118.  UNC Chapel Hill colloquium: Positivity from transversality and transitivity 15 January 2009
117.  U. Minnesota math colloquium: Transversality in homogeneous spaces.   11 December 2008
116.  U. Minnesota Schubert seminar: Cohomology rings of flag and toric varieties.   Friday 3, 10, 17 October 2008
115.  U. Minnesota Combinatorics: Topological Cohen-Macaulay criteria for monomial ideals.   Monday 29 September 2008
114.  Mangalia, Romania: Cellular resolutions of multiplier ideals of sums.   31 May 2008
113.  U. Minnesota Combinatorics: Combinatorics of Horn hypergeometric series.   22 April 2008
112.  UC San Diego: Metric geometry and unfoldings of polyhedra.   21 February 2008
111.  U. Minnesota Junior Colloquium: Unfolding convex polyhedra.   19 February 2008
110.  UT Austin: Gröbner geometry of Schubert polynomials.   5 February 2008
109.  Duke U.: Metric geometry and unfoldings of polyhedra.   31 January 2008
108.  American Institute of Mathematics, Palo Alto: Nonoverlapping unfolding of polyhedra.   7 December 2007
107.  U. Minnesota Math Club: Unfolding polyhedra.   25 October 2007
106.  Rutgers (AMS meeting): Multiplier ideals of sums via cellular resolutions.   6 October 2007
105.  Medellín, Colombia (Coloquio Latinoamericano de Álgebra): Hypergeometric series and toric algebra.   23-27 July 2007
104.  Tianjin, China (FPSAC plenary speaker): Combinatorics of Horn hypergeometric series.   2-6 July 2007
103.  CRM Montreal, Canada: A Kleiman-Bertini theorem for sheaf tensor products.   28 May - 1 June 2007
102.  CRM Montreal, Canada: Five lecture-hours on multivariate hypergeometric series and binomial ideals.   21-25 May 2007
101.  U. Nebraska math colloquium: Unfolding polyhedra.   27 April 2007
100.  Kansas U. math colloquium: Unfolding polyhedra.   26 April 2007
  99.  Kansas U. Combinatorics: Combinatorics of permutations from determinantal ideals.   25 April 2007
  98.  U. Nebraska Algebra: Multiplier ideals of sums via cellular resolutions.   23 April 2007
  97.  Michigan Geom. Rep. Theory: Overview of the Kazhdan-Lusztig conjecture via intersection cohomology.   11 April 2007
  96.  Oberwolfach, Germany: Cellular resolutions of multiplier ideals of sums.   2 February 2007
  95.  Indiana U. math colloquium: Combinatorics in convexity, cohomology, and complex analysis.   8 December 2006
  94.  Purdue Algebraic Geometry: Old mysteries about multivariate hypergeometric systems.   7 December 2006
  93.  Northeastern GASC: Horn hypergeometric systems and binomial D-modules.   9 November 2006
  92.  MIT Combinatorics: Hypergeometric series and binomial primary decomposition.   8 November 2006
  91.  U. Michigan Algebraic Geometry: Toric primary decomposition and hypergeometric series.   25 October 2006
  90.  Cincinnati, Ohio (AMS meeting plenary speaker): Unfolding polyhedra.   21-22 October 2006
  89.  Ann Arbor, Michigan (Ohio State-UMichigan Alg. Geom. Workshop): Binomial schemes.   14-15 October 2006
  88.  Constanţa, Romania: Nine lecture-hours on multigraded commutative algebra.   25-30 September 2006
  87.  Lincoln, Nebraska (IMMERSE program): Three lecture-hours on irreducible decomposition.   26-27 July 2006
  86.  Snowbird, Utah: Binomial D-modules and lattice point geometry.   10-16 June 2006
  85.  Luminy, France: Lattice basis ideals and Horn systems.   22-26 May 2006
  84.  ITCEP Family Fun Fair (interactive middle & high school presentation): Unfolding polyhedra.   25 March 2006
  83.  U. Minnesota Combinatorics: h-vectors of Gorenstein polytopes.   17 February 2006
  82.  Oberwolfach, Germany: Homological methods for hypergeometric families.   29 January - 4 February 2006
  81.  Taichung, Taiwan (AMS-TMS): Combinatorial positivity by degeneration.   14-18 December 2005
  80.  Reed College math colloquium: Unfolding polyhedra.   1 December 2005
  79.  U. Washington Combinatorics: Simplicial complexes whose facets are Young tableaux.   30 November 2005
  78.  U. Washington math colloquium: Unfolding polyhedra.   29 November 2005
  77.  Eugene, OR (AMS meeting): Duality of antidiagonals and pipe dreams.   12 November 2005
  76.  MIT Combinatorics: Tableau complexes.   2 November 2005
  75.  Lincoln, NE (AMS meeting): Encoding injective resolutions.   22 October 2005
  74.  UNAM, Mexico City: Three lectures on Gröbner geometry of quiver polynomials.   19-23 September 2005
  73.  Seattle (Algebraic Geometry Warmup Week): Combinatorial positivity in algebraic geometry.   22 July 2005
  72.  Lisbon, Portugal (workshop on D-modules): Homological methods for hypergeometric families.   13 July 2005
  71.  Snowbird, Utah: Three lectures on local cohomology in combinatorics.   19-28 June 2005
  70.  U. Texas, Austin math colloquium: Combinatorics in cohomology and convexity.   22 March 2005
  69.  UC Berkeley Rep. theory/geom/combin: Families of hypergeometric systems.   23 February 2005
  68.  U. Minnesota Combinatorics: Stanley's simplicial poset conjecture.   4 February 2005
  67.  Columbia U. math colloquium: Combinatorics from geometry.   20 January 2005
  66.  Michigan Combinatorics: Unfolding polytopes.   24 September 2004
  65.  Michigan State Colloquium: Combinatorial positivity by geometric degeneration.   23 September 2004
  64.  RIMS, Kyoto: Three lectures on Gröbner geometry of quiver polynomials.   11 - 13 August 2004
  63.  IAS/PCMI, Utah: Overview of geometric combinatorics, II.   12 July 2004
  62.  ICTP, Trieste: Four lectures on combinatorial commutative algebra.   31 May - 4 June 2004
  61.  Durham, NC (Duke Math Journal conference): Combinatorial positivity by geometric degeneration.   23 April 2004
  60.  Michigan Noncommutative algebra: Homological methods for hypergeometric families.   16 March 2004
  59.  Minnesota Geometry: Gelfand-Tsetlin patterns via toric degeneration of flag manifolds.   February 2004
  58.  Binghamton, NY (AMS meeting): Unfolding convex polyhedral manifolds.   October 2003
  57.  Seville, Spain (AMS-RSME): Positive combinatorial formulae for quiver polynomials.   19 June 2003
  56.  Germany (MEGA): Algorithms for graded injective resolutions and local cohomology over semigroup rings.   14 June 2003
  55.  UC Davis Combinatorics: Combinatorics of quiver polynomials.   24 April 2003
  54.  Stanford (Western Alg.Geom. Seminar): Combinatorial positivity of universal formulae in cohomology.   20 April 2003
  53.  Oberwolfach, Germany (Topological Combinatorics workshop): Unfolding polyhedra.   April 2003
  52.  Banff, Canada: Combinatorics of determinantal ideals.   1 April 2003
  51.  Northeastern Algebra: Quiver polynomials and Schubert varieties.   March 2003
  50.  MIT Combinatorics: Combinatorics of quiver polynomials.   March 2003
  49.  Davis, CA (BADMath Day): Unfolding polyhedra in many dimenions.   1 March 2003
  48.  UC Berkeley colloquium: Combinatorial positivity by geometric degeneration.   27 February 2003
  47.  Michigan Algebraic geometry: Positive formulae for quiver polynomials.   January 2003
  46.  Texas Tech (Red Raider Mini-Symposium): Combinatorial positivity by orbit degeneration.   November 2002
  45.  Northeastern U. (AMS meeting): Positivity of quiver cycles via deformation.   October 2002
  44.  Berkeley, CA (MSRI Workshop on Commutative Algebra): Positivity via Gröbner degeneration.   October 2002
  43.  Michigan Combinatorics: Gröbner geometry of Schubert polynomials.   September 2002
  42.  MSRI Introductory workshop: Hilbert schemes of points in the plane.   September 2002
  41.  Melbourne, Australia (FPSAC); 1 hour lecture: Gröbner geometry of Schubert polynomials.   July 2002
  40.  Levico, Italy: Gröbner geometry of Schubert polynomials via determinantal ideals.   June 2002
  39.  Albany colloquium: Determinants, permutations, and flags.   April 2002
  38.  Columbia Algebraic Geometry: Gröbner geometry of flag varieties.   15 March 2002
  37.  U. Michigan Combinatorics: Subword complexes in Coxeter groups.   March 2002
  36.  University of Minnesota Combinatorics: Words and subwords in symmetric groups.   February 2002
  35.  San Diego (Joint meetings, AMS-MAA): Determinantal ideals and combinatorics of Schubert polynomials.   January 2002
  34.  Cornell Algebra: Determinantal ideals and the combinatorics of Schubert polynomials.   October 2001
  33.  George Washington U. Algebra: Embedding planar graphs in staircases to resolve monomial ideals.   September 2001
  32.  George Washington U. colloquium: Geometry and combinatorics of flag manifolds via Gröbner bases.   September 2001
  31.  Morelia, Mexico (AMS-SMM meeting): Embedding planar graphs in staircases.   May 2001
  30.  UC Berkeley: Planar graphs in 3-dimensional staircases.   May 2001
  29.  Harvard-MIT Algebraic Geometry: An open problem on determinantal loci.   24 April 2001
  28.  MIT: Subword complexes in Coxeter groups and applications to Schubert varieties.   16 February 2001
  27.  UMass Amherst (Valley Geometry Seminar): Gröbner geometry of formulae for Schubert polynomials.   November 2000
  26.  MIT: Gröbner geometry of formulae for Schubert polynomials.   September 2000
  25.  Toronto (AMS meeting): Gröbner geometry of formulae for (double) Schubert polynomials.   September 2000
  24.  UC Berkeley workshop: Haiman's proof of the n! conjecture.   August 2000
  23.  UC Berkeley Algebra: Gröbner bases for determinantal ideals and K-theory of flag manifolds.   May 2000
  22.  Brown University: Monomial ideals and duality.   January 2000
  21.  Guanajuato, Mexico (CIMAT): The Cech hull.   December 1999
  20.  New Mexico State U. colloquium: The Alexander duality functors.   November 1999
  19.  New Mexico State U. Monomial ideals seminar: Injective resolutions.   November 1999
  18.  U. Utah (AMS Special Session): The Alexander duality functors.   September 1999
  17.  UC Berkeley Algebra: Projective dimension versus support-regularity.   September 1999
  16.  U. Kansas colloquium: Resolutions of monomial ideals.   September 1999
  15.  U. Kansas Algebra seminar: The canonical Cech complex.   September 1999
  14.  Essen, Germany: Alexander duality and local duality with monomial support.   June 1999
  13.  Reed College colloquium: Algebra and topology with alphabet blocks.   February 1999
  12.  UC Berkeley Grad Student Seminar: Combinatorial commutative algebra.   February 1999
  11.  UC Berkeley: Generic and cogeneric monomial ideals.   February 1999
  10.  U. Michigan: Cellular homology and duality in the study of monomial ideals.   September 1998
    9.  MIT: Alexander duality for monomial ideals and their resolutions.   September 1998
    8.  MSRI Summer Program: Three lectures on Alexander duality.   August 1998
    7.  UC Berkeley: The cohull resolution.   August 1998
    6.  RIMS, Kyoto: Alexander duality for arbitrary monomial ideals.   April 1998
    5.  UC Berkeley Algebra: Degrees on graded modules.   May 1997
    4.  Rutgers U. Algebra: Characterization of multiplicity functions of ideals.   March 1997
    3.  UC Berkeley Abelian Varieties: Multiplying points on group schemes.   November 1996
    2.  UC Berkeley Grad Student Seminar: Where is the geometry in schemes?   October 1996
    1.  MSRI Summer Program: Gröbner bases over PIDs.   July 1996
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