Skip to content

Commutative Algebra Seminar


Fall 2026

Regular Day: Friday

Regular Time: 2:00PM - 3:00PM

Regular Location: LCB 222


Date Speaker Talk Information
View details

August 28


View details

September 4

Srikanth Iyengar
University of Utah

View details

September 11


View details

September 18


View details

September 25

Alex Scheffelin
Columbia University

To a triple of a ring $R$, an $R$-module $M$, and an ideal $I$ we can associate the local cohomology modules $H^n_I(M)$. One classical problem dating back to a question of Grothendieck is to identify when these vanish for all $n i$ and all modules $M$, the smallest such $i$ we denote the cohomological dimension of $R$ with respect to $I$. Grothendieck showed that this is bounded by $d = \dim R$, while a very simple condition on $\widehat{R}$ and $I\widehat{R}$ controls the vanishing at $d$. A more subtle topological condition controls the vanishing at $d-1$ for regular local rings as posed by Hartshorne in the late 60s, and was proven in equicharacteristic in the early 70s. After 50 years it was shown to be true in unramified mixed characteristic, and the main result of this talk is the ramified mixed characteristic case.
View details

October 2


View details

October 9


View details

October 16


View details

October 23


View details

October 30


View details

November 6


View details

November 13


View details

November 20


View details

November 27


View details

December 4