NOTE: The ongoing COVID-19 situation precludes an in-person meeting . We are instead planning to hold this conference online on Friday, March 20, and further details will be forthcoming.

Description: This one-day event will be held in the Department of Mathematics at Northeastern University on March 20, 2020, preceding the 2020 AMS Spring Eastern Sectional Meeting.

Organizers: Peter Crooks, Anthony Iarrobino, Leila Khatami

Location: 509 / 511 Lake Hall

Speakers:

• Federico Galetto (Cleveland State University) ---- Symmetric shifted ideals
• William Graham (University of Georgia) ---- A new approach to the generalized Springer correspondence
• Iva Halacheva (Northeastern University) ---- Branching in Schubert calculus and Lagrangian correspondences
• Pedro Macias Marques (University of Évora) ---- Jordan type of an Artinian algebra
• George McNinch (Tufts University) ---- Nilpotent elements and reductive subgroups over a local field
• Alexandra Seceleanu (University of Nebraska) ---- What we (don't) know about the Jordan type of codimension three Artinian Gorenstein algebras
• Klemen Šivic (University of Ljubljana) ---- Dimensions of commuting varieties

Tentative schedule:

• 9:30am -- 10:20am: Alexandra Seceleanu
• 10:30am -- 11:20am: Pedro Macias Marques
• 11:30am -- 12:00pm: George McNinch

• 2:00pm -- 2:50pm: Iva Halacheva
• 3:00pm -- 3:50pm: William Graham

• 4:20pm -- 4:50pm: Klemen Šivic
• 5:00pm -- 5:50pm: Federico Galetto