Our Collaborative Research Group on Combinatorial Commutative Algebra is involved in number of activities and joint research projects, some which are described below.
Upcoming events that involve our CRG (members are highlighted)
Below is a list of projects of some of our CRG members (who are listed in bold).
S.M. Cooper, S. Faridi, T. Holleben, L. Nicklasson, A. Van Tuyl, Spheres and balls as independence complexes. Preprint (2025).
S.M. Cooper, S. Faridi, T. Holleben, L. Nicklasson, A. Van Tuyl, The weak Lefschetz property of whiskered graphs. In: U. Nagel, K. Adiprasito, R. Di Gennaro, S. Faridi, S. Murai, S. (eds) Lefschetz Properties: Current and New Directions, Springer INdAM Series, vol 59. Springer, Singapore. 97--110.
SMS 2025: An introduction to recent trends in commutative algebra
Organizers: Sergio Da Silva, Federico Galetto, Elena Guardo, Megumi Harada, Patricia Klein, Jenna Rajchgot, Adam Van Tuyl, Instructors: Christine Berkesch, Sergio Da Silva, Sara Faridi, Federico Galetto, Elena Guardo, Jack Jeffries, Patricia Klein, Claudia Miller, and Adam Van Tuyl
Toronto, June 2-13, 2025
SMS Summer School Participants (Fields 2025)
2025 Combinatorial Commutative Algebra meets Algebraic Combinatorics
Organizers: S. Faridi, Selvi Kara, Rosa Orellana, Greg Smith, Mike Zabrocki
Toronto, Jan 24-26, 2025
UWE Fest Conference on Commutative Algebra and its Interaction with Algebraic Geometry and Algebraic Combinatorics
Notre Dame, South Bend, IN,
August 12-16, 2024
CRG Members Participating: Kieran Bhaskara (poster), Sara Faridi (speaker), Thiago Holleben (poster), Adam Van Tuyl (speaker)
In the photo: CRG members with Uwe Nagel
Diversity in the Mathematical Sciences 2024
Organizers: S.M. Cooper and S. Faridi
Halifax, NS, July 29- Aug 2 2024
(WICAII) Women in Commutative Algebra II,
CIRM Trento, Italy,
October 16-20, 2023
Organized by: Sara Faridi, Elisa Gorla, Martina Juhnke-Kubitzke,, Haydee Lindo, Elisa Postinghel , Alexandra Seceleanu
Group leader from CRG: Susan Cooper
Special Session: Commutative Algebra,
CMS Winter Meeting, Montreal,
Dec 1-4, 2023
Organized by: Sankhaneel Bisui, Thai Nguyen, Adam Van Tuyl
CRG members speaking: Kieran Bhaskara, Susan Cooper, Thiago Holleben, Iresha Madduwe Hewalage, Hasan Mahmood
Special Session Participants
Organizers Bisu, Van Tuyl, and Nguyen
Slides of the talks:
Nasrin Altafi (Queen's University), The Weak Lefschetz property and the number of generators of equigenerated monomial ideals
Kieran Bhaskara (McMaster University), Regularity and projective dimension of toric ideals of bipartite graphs
Trung Chau (University of Utah), Barile-Macchia resolutions for monomial ideals
Susan Cooper (University of Manitoba), Resolutions & Powers of Ideals
Mike Cummings (McMaster University), A Gröbner basis for regular nilpotent Hessenberg Schubert cells
Sergio Da Silva (Virginia State University), Cohen-Macaulay Toric Ideals of Graphs and Geometric Vertex Decomposition
Elena Guardo (University of Catania), Expecting the unexpected: quantifying the persistence of unexpected hypersurfaces
Thiago de Holleben (Dalhousie University), Rees algebras and Lefschetz properties of squarefree monomial ideals
Arvind Kumar (New Mexico State University), Resurgence of Classical Varieties
Peilin Li (University of British Columbia), Building Monomial Ideal with Fixed Betti Number
Iresha Madduwe (Dalhousie University), Reconstruction Conjecture on Homological Invariants of Cameron Walker Graphs
Hasan Mahmood (Dalhousie University), Mutation of Simplicial Complexes
Michael Morrow (University of Kentucky), Syzygy Computations in OI-Modules
Ritika Nair (University of Kansas), An Improved Terai-Yoshida Theorem
Shah Roshan-Zamir (University of Nebraska-Lincoln), Interpolation in the Weighted Projective Space