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List of Participants

(a) Overseas Delegates:

1. S.S. Abhyankar <ram@cs.purdue.edu>

2. D. Bayer <bayer@math.columbia.edu>

3. A. Borel <borel@math.ias.edu>

4. D. Cutkosky <dale@cutkosky.math.missouri.edu>

5. D. Eisenbud <de@msri.org>

6. D.S. Keeler <dskeeler@math.mit.edu>

7. M.P. Murthy <murthy@math.uchicago.edu>

8. S. Popescu <sorin@math.sunysb.edu>

9. B. Pumaprajna <puma@math.ukns.edu>

10. A. Ram <ram@math.wisc.edu>

11. G. Smith <ggsmith@math.columbia.edu>

12. H. Srinivasan <mathhs@mizzou1.missouri.edu>

13. A. Taylor <ataylor@math.rutgers.edu>

14. R.R. Thomas <thomas@math.washington.edu>

15. E.Becker <becker@becker.mathematik.uni-dortmund.de>

16. B. Buchberger <Bruno.Buchberger@risc.uni-linz.ac.at>

17. A. Conca <conca@dima.unige.it>

18. W. Decker <decker@math.uni-sb.de>

19. J. Herzog <juergen.Herzog@uni-essen.de>

20. M.S . Narasirnhan <narasim@ictp.trieste.it>

21. F.O. Schreyer <schreyer@btm8x5.mat.uni-bayreuth.de>

22. S.A. Stromme <stromme@mi.uib.no>

23. H.N. Bhattarai <hnbhattarai@hotmail.com>

24. M.C. Kang <kang@math.ntu.edu.tw>

25 . Y. Miyaoka <miyaoka@math.tifr.res.in>

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(b) National Delegates:

26. R.V. Gurjar <gurjar@math.tifr.res.in> 27. V.B. Mehta <vikram@math.tifr.res.in> 28. AJ. Parameswaran <ajp@math.tifr.res.in> 29. R. Parimala <parimala@math.tifr.res.in> 30. M.S. Raghunathan <msr@math.tifr.res.in> 31. S. Ramanan <ramanan@imsc.res.in> 32. R.A. Rao <ravi@math.tifr.res.in> 33. Raja Sridharan <sraja@math.tifr.res.in> 34. V. Srinivas <srinivas@math.tifr.res.in> 35. S. Subramanian <subramnn@math.tifr.res.in> 36. Bharat Adsul, IIT, Mumbai. 37. S.R. Ghorpade <srg@math.iitb.ac.in> 38. A V. Jayanthan <jayan@math.iitb.ac.in> 39. A.R. Shastry, IIT, Mumbai <ars@math.iitb.ac.in> 40. M. Sohoni <sohoni@cse.iitb.ac.in> 41. J.K. Verma <jkv@math.iitb.ac.in> 42. R.C. Cowsik <cowsik@math.mu.ac.in> 43. S.A. Katre <katre@math.unipune.emetin> 44. K.N. Rajeshwari <knrJc@yahoo.com> 45. Radha Mohan <radham@deI6.vsnl.net.in> 46. Sucheta Chakrabarti <suchetadrdo@hotmail.com> 47. A.K. Dutta <amartya@www.isical.ac.in> 48. I. Sengupta <indranathsen@yahoo.com> 49. K.S.S. Moosath <moosath@math.unical.ac.in> 50. D.S. Nagaraj <dsn@imsc.emet.in> 51. K.H. Paranjape <kapil@imsc.emet.in> 52. P. Sankaran sankaran@imsc.emetin> 53. K.N. Raghavan <knr@crni.ac.in> 54. T.E.V. Balaji <tevbal@ictp.trieste.it> 55. V. Balaji <vbalaji @imsc.emet.in> 56. S.S. Kannan <kannan@cmi.ac.in> 57. K. Paramasamy <paramas@cmi.ac.in> 58. C.S. Seshadri <css@srni.emet.in> 59. S. Parvathi <sparvathi@hotmail.com> 60. D.P. Patil <patil@math.iisc.emet.in> 61. Anirban Datta <mstaO 10 1 @isibang.ac.in> 62. J. Biswas <jishnu@isibang.ac.in> 63. S.P. Inamdar <inamdar@ns.isibang.ac.in> 64. MJ. Shubhakar <jsubhakar@yahoo.com>

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(c) Local Delegates:

Department of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Hyderabad

65. M. Sitaramayya <mssm@uohyd.emet.in>

66. V. Kannan <vksm@uohyd.emet.in>

67. C. Musili <cmsm@uohyd.emet.in>

68. K. Viswanath <kvsm@uohyd.emetin>

69. R. Tandon <rtsm@uohyd.emeLin>

70. T. Amaranth <tasm@uohyd.emet.in>

71. Sajal Kumar Ray <skrsm@uohyd.emetin>

72. B.S. Padmavathi <bspsm@uohyd.emeLin>

73. V. Suresh <vssm@uohyd.emet.in>

74. G. Lakshma Reddy <glrsm@uohyd.emet.in>

75. M. Sumanth Dutt <msdsm@uohyd.emetin>

76. Ratna Kumar P.K. <pkrsm@uohyd.emet.in>

77. Anima Nagar, NBHM Post Doctoral Fellow

78. Anandavardhanan U.K.

79. A. Venkata Lakshmi

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(d) Tata Consultancy Services, Hyderabad

91. N. Raghavendra

92. G. Sreenaiah

93. P.S.Rao

(e) Special Participants:

94. C.N. Kaul (Retired Professor, IIT - Kharagpur)

95. S. Umamaheswaram (Retired Professor, University of Hyderabad)

Delegates who accepted but unable to attend the Conference

International:

1. M. Artin <artin@math.mit.edu>

2. C.H. Clemens <Clemens@math.utah.edu>

3. C. DeConcini <deconcin@mat.uniromal.it>

4. S. Donkin <S.Donkin@qmw.ac.uk>

5. V. Lakshmibai <lakshmibai@neu.edu>

6. Peter Littelmann <Littlemann@math.uni-wuppertal.de>

7. M.V. Nori <nori@math.uchicago.edu>

8. N. Mohan Kumar <kumar@math.wustl.edu>

9. C. Procesi <procesi@mat.uniromal.it>

10. Gerald Van der Geer <geer@wins.uva.nl>

11. Michel Van den Bergh <vdbergh@luc.ac.be

12. James Zhang <zhang@math.washington.edu>

National:

13. Balwant Singh <balwant@math.iitb.ac.in>

14. M. Bhattacherjee <meenaxi@postmark.net>

15. S.M. Bhatwadekar <smb@math.tifr.res.in>

16. C.D. Cruz <clare@cmi.ac.in>

17. P.H. Keskar, BITS, Pilani

18. V. Kodiyalam <vijay@imsc.emet.in>

19. R. Kulkami <ravi@mri.emet.in>

20. A. Parvathi Sastry <ars@math.iitb.ac.in>

21. C.R. Pradeep <pradeep@math.tifr.res.in>

22. P. Shastri <pramath@mri.emet.in>

23. P.S. Thiagarajan <thiagu@cmi.ac.in>

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SNo Speaker Title 01 S.S. Abhyankar (*) Nice Equations for Nice Groups 02 V. Balaji Principle G-Bundles on AIKebraic Curves 03 D. Bayer (*) Reverse Search for Monornial and Toric Ideals 04 E. Becker (*) Algorithmic Problems in Real Aigebraic Geometry 05 B. Buchberger GTÖebner Rings and Modules 06 A. Conca Castelnuovo-Mumford Regularity of Product of Ideals 07 D. Cutkosky Simultaneous Resolution 08 A.K. Dutta Some Results on Affine Fibrations 09 D. Eisenbud (*) Exterior Aigebras in Commutative Algebra and

Aigebraic Geometry 10 S.R. Ghorpade Hilbert Series of Pfaffian Rings II R.V. Gurjar On Ramification of Self-maps of p" and C" 12 1. Herzog (*) Koszul Aigebras and Modules 13 M.C. Kang Noether's Problem Over Aigebraically Closed Fields 14 D.S. Kee1er (*) Non-commutative Curves and Non-commutative

Surfaces 15 M.P. Murthy Grothendieck Groups of Some Affine Aigebras 16 D.S. Nagaraj NEF and Big Vector Bundles 17 AJ. Parameswaran Hilbert Schemes of Homogeneous Spaces Containing

Irreducible Cycles 18 R. Parimala Away from Arithmetic 19 M.S. Raghunathan Spaces of Morphisms of a Curve in the Affine

Homogeneous Space 20 A.Ram Non-crystallographic Springer Correspondences 21 F.O. Schreyer (*) A Survey on Computational Aigebraie Geometry 22 C.S. Seshadri Demazure's Character Formula in Characteristie Zero 23 M. Sohoni Geometric Complexity Theory-II: Explicit Obstructions 24 V. Srinivas Zero Cycles on Singular Varieties 25 H. Srinivasan Gorenstein Aigebras and their Resolutions 26 S.A. Stromme Computer Aided Chern Class Computations 27 V. Suresh Zeros of Quadratic Forms 28 R.R. Thomas The Combinatorics of the Torie Hilbert Sehemes

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Title of activity: ...................................................... ..... .

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1. Goals attained: ................. ................ ... .............................. .

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5. Participants: ..................................................................... .

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(b) involvement: ............................................................... .

(c) creativity: ......................... . ......................................... .

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evaluation by lectures:

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EVALUATION BY LECTURERS I PARTICIPANTS

Each participant has to grade the various aspects of this meeting as detailed

below. The lowest grade is (1) and the highest grade is (10).

1. The activity material was:

unsatisfactory (l)

2. The activity facilities were:

unsatisfactory (l)

very satisfactory (10)

very satisfactory (10)

3. The organization of the activity was:

deficient (1)

4. The activity content was:

(a) too difficult (1)

(b) not useful (1)

5. The activity leaders:

(a) were poorly organized (1)

(b) made poor presentation (1)

(e) leetured at a very elementary level (1)

6. The activity co-ordinator was:

(a) of little help (1)

excellent (10)

too low-Ievel (10)

very useful (10)

were weIl organized (10)

made exeellent presentation (10)

lectured at a too advaneedlevel(10)

of good help (10)

(b) unable to eope with problems (1) able to eope with problems (10)

7. The time allocated for this activity was:

Inadequate (l) more than adequate (10)

8. I feeloverall that the activity was:

(a) a was te of time (1) very useful (10)

(b) should not be organized again (1) should be organized again (10)

9. Otber comments about tbe activity:

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Each participant was asked to grade the various aspects of this meeting as detailed below. The lowest grade is (1) and the highest grade is (10). No. ofresponses received was 30 in 2001 and 33 in 1989 (EXCLUDING local participants in both the cases). The average grading is given below:

Average grading 2001 1989

1. The activity material was:

unsatisfactory (1) very satisfactory (10) 8.78 8.47

2. The activity facilities were:

unsatisfactory (I) very satisfactory (10) 8.40 8.63

3. The organization of the activity was:

deficient (1) excellent (10) 9.43 9.36

4. The activity content was:

(a) too difficult (1) too low-level (10) 5.58 4.71

(b) not useful (1) very useful (10) 8.62 8.52

s. The activity leaders:

(a) were poorly organized (1) were well organized (10) 9.26 9.47

(b) made poor presentation (l) made excellent presentation (10) 9.10 8.74

(c) lectured at a very elementary lectured at a too level (1) advancedlevel(IO) 6.75 7.19

6. The activity co-ordinator was:

(a) of little help (l) of good help (10) 9.56 9.27

(b) unable to cope with problems (I) able to cope with problems (10) 9.46 9.39

7. The time allocated for this activity was:

Inadequate (1) more than adequate (10) 7.03 7.39

8. I feeloverall that the activity was:

(a) a waste of time (l) very useful (10) 9.20 9.31

(b) should not be organized again (I) should be organized again (10) 9.76 9.56

9. Other comments about the activity: .. .......... . ............ . ................... .

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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ALGEBRA AND GEOMETRY 07-12 December, 2001

Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Universlty of Hyderabad Patron: Prof. P. Rama Rao

F.A.Sc., F.N.A .• F.Engg.

Vice-Chancellor - University of Hyderabad

Organizing Committee:

C.S. Seshadri, FRS - Chairman <css@smi.emet.in>

C. M usi li - Secretary <cmsm@uohyd.ernel.jn>

International:

w. Decker <decker@math.uni-sb.de>

D. Eisenbud <de@msri.org>

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V.B. Mehta <vikram@math.tifr.res.in>

K. Paranjape <kapil@imsc.emet.in>

R. Tandon <rtsm@uohyd.emet.in>

J.K. Verma <jkv@math.iitb.emet.in>

Soonsored by:

NSF, IMU-CDE, ICTP, NBHM, BRNS, DST, UGC-UH

Co-soonsored by:

TCS and Vignan Vidyalayas

19'" November, 2001

The following Local Managing Committees are constituted with a request to help us conducting the Conference in as efficient way as possible.

R. Tandon V. Suresh M.S. Dall C.Musili K.S. Raju (Convenor)

2. Accommodation:

C.Musili C.K. Arjun P. Amn Kumar M.S. Dall Anima Nagar Swarup Kumar (LVOH) K. Bhaskar T. Prabhavathi (Convenor)

3. Reqpüon:

M. Sitaramayya R. Tandon O.L. Reddy SK Ray Anima Nagar S. Grace Rose Leena C.Musili 8.S. Padrnavathi (Convenor)

4. Ca",';n. ( (ooc! & m .... hm.nls):

T. Amaranath V. Suresh S.K. Ray C.Musili VVBN Rao (Convenor)

5, Cultural Acliviües:

M. Sitaramayya M. Veerabhadraiah P.K. Ratna Kumar C.Musili B.S. Padmavathi (Convenor)

Website: <202.41.85.I02Iicag.htm> Designed by: D.R.P. Gangaji

6, Pbotograpby:

VVBNRao C. Musili S. Sudheer (Convenor)

7, Press!TV .nd Publicity:

P. Suryanarayana (PRO) K. Bhaskar

8. Picnie:

VVBNRao O.L. Reddy P.K. Ralna Kumar C. Musili M.S.Datt

9. Accounting:

K. Krishna Rao (DFO) V. Madhusudhan Ch. Chandrasekhar (Convenor)

R. Tandon C.MusiJi V. Madhusudhan (Convenor)

II .Book Exhibition:

E. Rarna Reddy Ch. Chandrasekhar (Convenor) .

U.K. Anandavardhanan Nihar Ranjan Satapathy Ph.D Soe Win students A. Venkata Lakshmi M.Sc. III Semester Math. students

13,Mis<e!!aneous:

C. Prakash Sharma Shyarn Sundar T.V. Gopal (Convenor)

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Department of Mathematics and Statistics

"International Conference on ALGEBRA and GEOMETRY"

07 - 14 December 2001 (Friday to Friday)

e maU: aI:2kl@uohyd.ernet.in, Fax: (040) 3010 120 J 145 http://202.41.85.102licill:.htm and http://www.uohyd.ernet.in

Patron: P. Rama Rao, FASe, FNA, FREng, Vice-Chancellor, University of Hyderabad.

Organising Committee: Chainnan: C.S. Seshadri, FRS Secretary : C. Musili

Members : International: M. Artin, MIT, Cambridge, USA., D. Eisenbud, Director, MSRI, Berkeley, USA., C. Procesi, Univ. of Rome, La Sapienza, Italy, C. DeConeini, Univ. of Rome, Tor Vergata, Italy, V. Lakshmibai, Northeastem Univ., Boston, USA and W. Decker, Univ. of Saarbruecken, Germany.

National: V.B. Mehta, T.I.F.R., Mumbai, K.H. Paranjape, J.M.Sc., Chennai, J.K.Verma, J.J.T., Mumbai and R.Tandon, UoHyd, Hyderabad.:

Academic Programme: There will be survey talks and paper presentations on the following themes whose Coordinators are: D. Eisenbud, W. Decker, M. Artin, C. DeConeini and C. Musili respectively.

1. Commutative Algebra towards Algebraic Geometry, 2. Computational Algebraic Geometry, 3. Non-Commutative Algebraic Geometry, 4. Quantum Algebra and 5. Related topics

The Speakers incIude: S.S. Abhyankar, M. Artin. V. Balaji. Balwant Singh. D. Bayer, E. Becker, M. V.D. Bergh. S.M. Bhatwadekar, 1. Biswas. B. Buchberger, C. Clemens. A Conca. D. Cutkosky. C. D'Cruz, S. Donkin. AK. Dutta. G. V.D. Geer, R. V. Gurjar, 1. Herzog. c.N. Kimg. D. Keeler, P. Littlemann, N. Mohan Kumar, M.P. Murthy. M. V. Nori. A.J. Parameswaran. R. Parimala. D.P. Patil. A. Ram. P. Sastri. F.O. Schreyer, M. Sohoni. V. Srinivas. H. Srinivasan. S.A Stramme. V. Suresh. R. Thomas and 1. Zhang.

Other participants incIude A Borei. M.S. Narasimhan. M.S. Raghunathan. S. Ramanan. P.S. Thiagarajan. H.N. Bhattarai. R.A Rao. S. Subramanian. C.R. Pradeep. Raja Sridharan. A.R. Shastri. S.R. Ghorpade. A V. layanthan. R. C. Cowsik. Parvati Shastri, S.A. Katre. S. Nayak. N. Raghavendra, I. Sengupta, P.H. Keskar, M. Bhattacharjee. K.N. Rajeswari. S.P. Inamdar, P. Sankaran. K.N. Raghavan. D.S. Nagaraj. V. Kodiyalam.

S.S. Kannan. S. Parvathi. S. Moosath and many others.

This conference is sponsored by Overseas: NSF (National Seience Foundation). USA, lMU-CDE (International Math. Union-Centre for Development Exchange). USA and ICTP (International Centre for Theoretical Physics), Italy. National: NBHM (National Board for Higher Mathematics); DST (Department of Seience and Technology) and UGC/UH (UGC Unassigned Grants for University uf Hyderabad) and Co-sponsored by Satyam Computer Services LId .• TCS (Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.) and Vignan Vidyalayas Lid.

Local hospitality (lodging and boarding) : Provided in full. Travel: Participants are expected to find their own travel support.

To Apply: Post Graduate (M.SclM.Phill-incIuding ongoing) students. Research Scholars, Post Doctoral Fellows and CollegelInstitute/University teachers interested in participating in the conference may apply in the pro-forma given in the website <http://202.41.85.102licag.htm>, subject to eligibility as specified therein.

Last date to receive applications : 31st August 2001. Applications made by E-mail should necessarily be followed by submission of hard copies (of the application and the supporting recommendation letters).