August 1
 (Monday) ~ August 5 (Friday), 2016
 		   
PROGRAM
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August, 1 (Mon)
 
| 13:15--14:15 | Akiyoshi Tsuchiya (Osaka University) [Slide] | 
| Gorenstein Fano polytopes arising from two poset polytopes | |
| 14:30--15:30 | Robert Davis (Michigan State University) [Slide] | 
| Pattern-Avoiding Polytopes | |
| 15:45--16:45 | Liam Solus (MIT and IST Austria) | 
| On h*-unimodality and the integer decomposition property for reflexive simplices | 
August, 2 (Tue)
 
| 9:30--10:30 | Uwe Nagel (University of Kentucky) | 
| Equivariant Hilbert Series | |
| 10:45--11:45 | David Cook II (Eastern Illinois University) | 
| Smooth toric varieties satisfying many Laplace equations | |
| 13:15--14:15 | Andreas Paffenholz (Technische Universität Darmstadt) [Slide] | 
| Structure and Classifications of Lattice Polytopes | |
| 14:30--15:30 | Thomas Prince (Imperial College London) [Slide] | 
| Complete intersection constructions for certain toric degenerations of toric Fano varieties | |
| 15:45--16:45 | Fu Liu (University of California, Davis)[Slide] | 
| Ehrhart positivity and BV-α-positivity for generalized permutohedra | 
August, 3 (Wed)
 
| 9:30--10:30 | Emanuela De Negri (Genova University) [Slide] | 
| Universal Gröbner bases and Cartwright-Sturmfels ideals | |
| 10:45--11:45 | Sijong Kwak (KAIST) [Slide] | 
| Characterization of ACM varieties with d-linear resolution | 
August, 4 (Thu)
 
| 9:30--10:30 | Fabrizio Zanello (Michigan Technological University) [Slide] | 
| Some recent interactions between commutative algebra and combinatorics | |
| 10:45--11:45 | Huy Tai Ha (Tulane University) [Slide] | 
| Powers of sums of ideals | |
| 13:15--14:15 | Akihiro Higashitani (Kyoto Sangyo University) | 
| On counterexamples of Cayley conjecture for lattice simplices | |
| 14:30--15:30 | Johannes Hofscheier (Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg)[Slide] | 
| Lattice simplices with a given degree | |
| 15:45--16:45 | Benjamin Nill (Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg) [Slide] [Note] | 
| Ehrhart theory for spanning lattice polytopes | 
August, 5 (Fri)
 
| 9:30--10:30 | Volkmar Welker (Philipps-Universität Marburg)[Slide] | 
| On the ideal of orthogonal representations of a graph | |
| 10:45--11:45 | Lukas Katthän (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)[Slide] | 
| Multiplicative structures on minimal free resolutions of monomial ideals |