Bernd Ulrich's Curriculum vitæ

Curriculum Vitæ

Education:
- Promotion (Ph.D.), University of the Saarland, West Germany, 1980
- Diplom (M.S.), University of the Saarland, West Germany, 1977
Positions:
- Professor, Purdue University, 2001-present
- Simons Foundation Fellow, 2012-2013
- Research Professor, MSRI, Berkeley, 2012-2013
- General Member, MSRI, Berkeley, Fall 2002
- Professor, Michigan State University, 1989-2001
- Associate Professor, Michigan State University, 1986-1989
- Assistant Professor, Michigan State University, 1984-1986
- Visiting Assistant Professor, Northwestern University, 1983-1984
- Visiting Assistant Professor, Purdue University, 1982-1983
- Visiting Research Associate, Purdue University, 1981-1982,
  supported by a research fellowship from DAAD
Research Interest:

Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry
Honors:

Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, Inaugural Class of 2012
Research Support:
- NSF research grant, 2022-2025
- NSF research grant, 2018-2021 (with a no-cost extension until 2023)
- NSF research grant, 2015-2018 (with a no-cost extension until 2020)
- NSF grant Algebra and Geometry Meetings in the Midwest, 2015-2018
- NSF research grant, 2012-2015
- Simons Foundation Fellow, 2012-2013
- NSF research grant, 2009-2012
- NSF grant Special Algebra Meetings in the Midwest, 2008-2013
- NSF grant PASI: Commutative Algebra and its Connections to Geometry, 2009
- NSF research grant, 2005-2009
- NSF research grant, 2002-2005
- NSF grant Midwest Commutative Algebra and Geometry Meeting, 2004
- NSF research grant, 1999-2002
- NSF research grant, 1996-1999
- NSF US-Brazil cooperative research grant, 1994-1997
- NSF research grant, 1993-1996
- NSF research grant, 1990-1993
- NSF research grant, 1988-1990
- NSF grant for scientific computing equipment for the mathematical sciences, 1988
- NSF research grant, 1986-1988
- NSF research grant, 1984-1986
- Fellowship from DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service), 1981-1982
Ph.D. Students:
- Elias Lopez, Licci Gorenstein ideals of deviation two, 1988
- Mark Johnson, Cohen-Macaulay blowup algebras and constructions in linkage, 1995
- Laura Ghezzi, The depth of blowup rings of ideals, 2001
- Christine Cumming, Residual intersections in Cohen-Macaulay rings, 2005
- Louiza Fouli, A study on the core of ideals, 2006
- Javid Validashti, Multiplicities of graded algebras, 2007
- Yi-Huang Shen, Monomial curves, Gorenstein ideals, and Stanley decompositions, 2009
- Yu Xie, Formulas for the multiplicity of graded algebras, 2009 (advised jointly with W. Heinzer)
- Kuei-Nuan Lin, Rees algebras of diagonal ideals, 2010
- Paolo Mantero, Linkage and Hilbert functions, 2012
- Lan Nguyen, Rees algebras of linearly presented ideals, 2013
- Youngsu Kim, Quasi-Gorensteinness of extended Rees algebras, 2014
- Jacob Boswell, Prime saturations and Rees algebras of almost linearly presented ideals, 2015
- Jonathan Montano, Generalized multiplicities, reductions of ideals, and depth of blowup algebras, 2015
- Vivek Mukundan, Rees algebras and iterated Jacobian duals, 2016
- Alessandra Costantini, Rees algebras and fiber cones of modules, 2019
- Monte Cooper, Bounding the degrees of the defining equations of Rees rings for certain determinantal and Pfaffian ideals, 2020
- Roberto Ulloa-Esquivel, epsilon-multiplicity of modules with finitely generated saturation Rees algebras, 2020
- Tan Dang, Topics on the Cohen-Macaulay property of Rees algebras and the Gorenstein linkage class of a complete intersection, 2020
- Edward Price, On the defining ideals of Rees rings for determinantal and Paffian ideals of generic height, 2020
- Rachel Lynn, Specialization and complexity of integral closure of ideals, 2021
- Lindsey Hill, Integral closures of ideals and coefficient ideals of monomial ideals, 2021
- Vinh Nguyen, Bounds on generalized multiplicities and on heights of determinantal ideals, 2022
- Matthew Weaver, The equations defining Rees algebras of ideals and modules over hypersurface rings, 2022
- Jenna Tarasova, Residual intersections and their generators, 2022
- Sandra Sandoval Gomez, current (advised jointly with C. Polini at U. of Notre Dame)
- Juan Ramirez, current (advised jointly with C. Polini at U. of Notre Dame)
Postdocs Mentored:
- Hema Srinivasan, 1986-1988
- Sangki Choi, 1989-1990
- K. N. Raghavan, 1991-1993
- Songqing Ding, 1993-1995
- Claudia Polini, 1995-1998
- Alberto Corso, 1998-2000
- Claudia Miller, 2000-2001
- Jean Chan, 2001-2003
- Jooyoun Hong, 2003-2006
- Gemma Colomé Nin, 2011-2013
- Alexandra Seceleanu, MSRI, Fall 2012
- Cleto Miranda Neto, 2012-2013
- Wenbo Niu, 2011-2014
- Victor Hugo Perez, 2013-2014
- Caroline Madsen, 2016-2019
Editorial Work:
- Editorial board of the Journal of Algebra, since 2010
- Editorial board of the Vietnam Journal of Mathematics, since 2022
- Editorial board of the Taiwanese Journal of Mathematics, 2008-2014
- Editorial board of the Proceedings of the AMS, 2002-2010
- Co-editor of a special volume of the Journal of Algebra in honor of Craig Huneke, J. Algebra 571 (2021)
- Co-editor of the proceedings of the conference Algebraic Geometry and Commutative Algebra, IMPA, Rio de Janeiro, 2012, Bull. Braz. Math. Soc. 45 (2014)
- Co-editor of a special volume of the Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra in honor of Wolmer Vasconcelos, J. Pure Appl. Algebra 201 (2005)
- Book review in: Bulletin Amer. Math. Soc. 34 (1997), 177-181
Conferences Organized:
- Co-organizer of the Fellowship of the Ring, the virtual national commutative algebra seminar hosted by MSRI, since 2020.
- Member of the scientific committee of the Virtual Commutative Algebra Seminar, IIT Bombay, since 2021.
- Co-organizer of the conference `Written Geometry: Commutative Algebra', CIRM (Centre International de Rencontres Mathématiques), Luminy, France, January 2023.
- Member of the local organizing committee for the AMS Sectional Meeting at Purdue University, scheduled for April 2020 and postponed to March 2022.
- Co-organizer of a special session at the AMS Sectional Meeting at Purdue University, scheduled for April 2020 and postponed to March 2022.
- Co-organizer of the conference Algebraic Geometry and its Broader Implications: a Celebration of Robin Hartshorne's 80th and the Book's 40th Birthday, University of Illinois at Chicago, March 2018.
- Co-organizer of the conference Commutative Algebra and its Interactions with Algebraic Geometry: Tight Closure, Linkage, and Syzygies. A Conference in Honor of Craig Huneke's 65th Birthday, University of Michigan, July 2016.
- Co-organizer of the Midwest Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry Conference. A Meeting in Honor of Juan Migliore, University of Notre Dame, May 2016.
- Co-organizer of the Midwest Commutative Algebra Conference, Purdue University, August 2015.
- Co-organizer of the special session Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry at the Mathematical Congress of the Americas 2013, Guanajuato, Mexico, August 2013.
- Co-organizer of the conference Commutative Algebra and its Interaction with Algebraic Geometry, CIRM (Centre International de Rencontres Mathématiques), Luminy, France, July 2013.
- Co-organizer of the focus period Rees Algebras and Integral Closure during the Special Year on Commutative Algebra at MSRI, Berkeley, September 2012.
- Co-organizer of the conference Algebraic Geometry and Commutative Algebra, IMPA, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 2012.
- Co-organizer of the 3rd Bluegrass Algebra Conference, University of Kentucky, June 2012.
- Co-organizer of the Commutative Algebra and Geometry Conference at Purdue, Purdue University, May 2011.
- Co-organizer of a special session at the AMS Meeting in Notre Dame, Indiana, November 2010.
- Co-organizer of the conference Commutative Algebra and its Interaction with Algebraic Geometry, CIRM (Centre International de Rencontres Mathématiques), Luminy, France, November 2010.
- Co-organizer of a special session at the AMS Meeting in Lexington, Kentucky, March 2010.
- Co-organizer of the summer school PASI: Commutative Algebra and its Connections to Geometry, Olinda, Brazil, August 2009.
- Co-organizer of the conference Commutative Algebra and its Interaction with Algebraic Geometry, CIRM (Centre International de Rencontres Mathématiques), Luminy, France, September 2008.
- Co-organizer of the conference Algebraic Geometry and Commutative Algebra: A Conference to Celebrate Robin Hartshorne's 70th Birthday, University of Illinois at Chicago, April 2008.
- Co-organizer of the conference Commutative Algebra and its Interaction with Algebraic Geometry, BIRS (Banff International Research Station), Banff, Canada, June 2007.
- Co-organizer of the workshop Integral Closure, Adjoint Ideals and Cores, AIM (American Institute of Mathematics), Palo Alto, December 2006.
- Co-organizer of the UIC-Purdue Workshop on Algebraic Geometry and Commutative Algebra, Purdue University, December 2006.
- Co-organizer of the conference Commutative Algebra and its Interaction with Algebraic Geometry, CIRM (Centre International de Rencontres Mathématiques), Luminy, France, May 2006.
- Co-organizer of a special session at the AMS Meeting in Notre Dame, April 2006.
- Co-organizer of the conference Commutative Algebra: Homological and Birational Theory, BIRS, Banff, Canada, September 2004.
- Co-organizer of the conference Midwest Commutative Algebra and Geometry Meeting: A Conference in Honor of Joseph Lipman, Purdue University, May 2004.
- Co-organizer of the conference Commutative Algebra and its Interaction with Algebraic Geometry, CIRM, Luminy, France, June 2003.
- Co-organizer of the workshop Commutative Algebra: Local and Birational Theory during the Special Year on Commutative Algebra at MSRI, Berkeley, December 2002.
- Co-organizer of a special session at the First Joint Meeting of the AMS and UMI (Unione Matematica Italiana), Pisa, June 2002.
- Co-organizer of the conference Commutative Algebra and its Interaction with Algebraic Geometry, CIRM, Luminy, France, June 2000.
- Co-organizer of a special session at the AMS Winter Meeting in San Francisco, January 1995.
- Member of the program committee for the First Joint Meeting of the AMS and DMV (German Mathematical Association), Heidelberg, October 1993.
Selected Invited Talks:
- IIT Bombay Virtual Commutative Algebra Seminar, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, February 2021 (two talks, virtual).
- Commutative Algebra and Related Topics, IPM, Tehran, January 2021 (virtual).
- Free Resolutions and Representation Theory, ICERM, Brown University, August 2020 (virtual).
- New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico, December 2019.
- CIMPA Research School: Syzyies, from Theory to Applications, Federal University of Paraiba, Joao Pessoa, Brazil, November 2019.
- XXII Coloquio Latinoamericano de Álgebra, Mexico City, August 2019.
- RRAGE: Ragnar's Ramifications in Algebra and Geometry Emerging, Fields Institute, Toronto, July 2019.
- University of Michigan, April 2019, January 1998, 1995, February 1985.
- XXV Escola de Álgebra (the biannual Brazilian algebra meeting), Unicamp, Campinas, Brazil, December 2018 (plenary and special session talk).
- New Trends in Syzygies, BIRS, Banff, Canada, June 2018.
- University of Notre Dame, May 2018, March 2009, December 1999.
- SLAM (Southwest Algebra Meeting) and University of Arkansas, February 2018 (2 talks).
- International Conference on Commutative Algebra and its Interaction to Combinatorics, Discrete Geometry and Singularity Theory, VIASM (Vietnam Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics), Hanoi, Vietnam, September 2017.
- International Meeting in Commutative Algebra and Related Areas, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, July 2017 (four lectures).
- First Joint Meeting Brazil-Italy in Mathematics, IMPA, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 2016.
- Commutative Algebra and Its Interactions with Algebraic Geometry: Tight Closure, Linkage, and Syzygies, University of Michigan, July 2016.
- Workshop on Commutative Algebra, VIASM (Vietnam Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics), Hanoi, Vietnam, June 2016 (2 talks).
- Homological and Computational Methods in Commutative Algebra, Cortona, Italy, May 2016.
- University of Illinois, October 2015, April 2007, October 2000, 1986, July 1984.
- Singular Landscapes, a Conference in Honor of Bernard Teissier's Seventieth Birthday, Aussois, France, June 2015.
- University of Illinois at Chicago, April 2015, September 2005.
- Workshop on Commutative Algebra, VIASM (Vietnam Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics), Hanoi, Vietnam, August 2014 (two lectures).
- International Conference on Commutative Algebra and Singularity Theory 2014, Toyama, Japan, July 2014.
- University of the Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany, July 2013.
- Seminar, MSRI, Berkeley, February 2013.
- Workshop on Representation Theory, Homological Algebra, and Free Resolutions, MSRI, Berkeley, February 2013.
- Commutative Algebra Meeting, Federal University of Paraiba, Brazil, January 2013 (three lectures).
- Colloquium, MSRI, Berkeley, October 2012.
- Interactions between Commutative Algebra and Representation Theory, a Conference in Honor of Ragnar-Olaf Buchweitz's Sixtieth Birthday, Syracuse University, April 2012.
- Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry Conference, University of Illinois, November 2011 (joint colloquium and conference talk).
- André Memorial Conference, École Politechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland, May 2011.
- 32nd Symposium and 6th Japan-Vietnam Joint Seminar on Commutative Algebra, Hayama, Japan, December 2010 (two lectures).
- School and Workshop on Local Rings and Local Study of Algebraic Varieties, International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy, June 2010 (five lectures).
- AMS Meeting in Lexington, Kentucky, March 2010 (invited address).
- Special Session on Homological Aspects of Module Theory, AMS Meeting in Boca Raton, Florida, October 2009 (40 minute talk).
- PASI Summer School on Commutative Algebra and its Connections to Geometry, Olinda, Brazil, August 2009 (three lectures).
- University of South Carolina, November 2008.
- Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil, July 2008, August 2004, 2003, July 1998.
- Commutative Algebra: Connections with Algebraic Topology and Representation Theory, a Conference on the Occasion of Luchezar Avramov's 60th Birthday, University of Nebraska, May 2008.
- International Conference: Towards Establishing a Cutting-Edge Platform for Commutative Ring Theory in the 21st Century, Yokohama, Japan, March 2008.
- Hilbert Functions and Syzygies in Commutative Algebra and Combinatorics, a Conference in Honor of Jürgen Herzog on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday, Cortona, Italy, September 2007.
- University of California, Berkeley, May 2007, December 2006, March 2006, November 2002, May 2000, 1999.
- Advances in Algebra and Geometry, MSRI, Berkeley, May 2007.
- Workshop on Integral Closure, Adjoint Ideals and Cores, AIM, Palo Alto, December 2006.
- Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry Meeting (ALGA), IMPA, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 2006, 1997.
- CIMPA School on Commutative Algebra, Hanoi, Vietnam, December 2005 (five lectures).
- University of Nebraska, October 2005.
- Midwest Algebra, Geometry and their Interactions Conference, University of Notre Dame, October 2005.
- Commutative Algebra Conference Honoring the Contributions of Phillip Griffith, University of Illinois, September 2005.
- University of Kansas, March 2005.
- Symposium on Commutative Ring Theory, Kurashiki, Japan, November 2004.
- University of Bochum, Germany, July 2004, June 1995.
- University of Toronto, Canada, January 2004.
- Lisbon Conference on Commutative Algebra, Lisbon, Portugal, June 2003.
- First Joint Meeting of the AMS and the RSME (Real Sociedad Matemática Espanola), Special Session on Commutative Algebra: Geometric, Homological, Combinatorial and Computational Aspects, Sevilla, Spain, June 2003.
- Bluegrass Algebra Conference, University of Kentucky, April 2003.
- MSRI, Berkeley, October 2002.
- Current Trends in Commutative Algebra, Levico, Italy, June 2002.
- Conference on Zero-Dimensional Schemes and Related Topics, Acitrezza, Italy, June 2002.
- First Joint Meeting of the AMS and the SMF (Société Mathématique de France), Special Session on Commutative Algebra and its Interactions with Algebraic Geometry, Lyon, France, July 2001.
- First Latin American Congress of Mathematicians, Algebra Session, IMPA, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 2000.
- Conferences on Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry, Oberwolfach, Germany, August 1999, May 1996, August 1989, May 1987, 1985, 1983, 1981.
- Commutative Algebra and its Related Topics, KIAS (Korea Institute for Advanced Study), Seoul, Korea, May 1999.
- Homological Methods in Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry: a Conference in Honor of David Buchsbaum, Genova, Italy, June 1998.
- Conference on Algebraic Geometry and Commutative Algebra, Guanajuato, Mexico, August 1997.
- 21^st Brazilian Colloquium, Algebra Session, IMPA, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 1997.
- Conference on Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry, CIRM, Luminy, France, May 1997.
- Rutgers University, October 1996, April 1991, February 1990.
- Summer School on Commutative Algebra, Centre de Recerca Matematica, Barcelona, Spain, July 1996.
- Joint Meeting of the AMS and SMM (Sociedad Matemática Mexicana), Special Session on Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Coding Theory, Guanajuato, Mexico, November 1995.
- Workshop in Algebra, Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Mexico City, November 1995.
- Conference on Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil, August 1995.
- University of Essen, Germany, June 1995.
- University of Köln, Germany, June 1995.
- École Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France, March 1995.
- ICM Satellite Conference on Commutative Algebra, Vechta, Germany, July 1994.
- Conference on Algebra, Dynamical Systems, and Topology, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil, July 1994.
- Workshop on Commutative Algebra and its Relation to Combinatorics and Computer Algebra, International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy, May 1994 (four lectures).
- Brandeis University, May 1994, April 1991.
- MIT, May 1994.
- Conference on Commutative Algebra and its Interaction with Computer Algebra and Combinatorics, Essen, Germany, June 1993.
- Conference on Commutative Algebra and its Interaction with Algebraic Geometry, University of Missouri, May 1993.
- Conference on Commutative Algebra, International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy, September 1992 (five lectures).
- Latin American Meeting on Algebra and Algebraic Geometry, Guanajuato, Mexico, July 1992 (two lectures).
- AMS Summer Research Conference on Commutative Algebra: Syzygies, Multiplicities and Birational Algebra, Mount Holyoke, July 1992.
- Conference on Free Resolutions in Algebraic Geometry and Representation Theory, Oberwolfach, Germany, June 1992.
- International Seminar on Algebra and its Applications, Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Mexico City, January 1991.
- ICM-90 Satellite Conference on Commutative Algebra and Combinatorics, Nagoya University, Japan, August 1990.
- Daewoo Conference, Seoul National University, Korea, August 1990 (two lectures).
- Conference on Algebraic Geometry, Commutative Algebra, and Ring Theory, Bucharest, Romania, July 1989.
- Midwest Algebraic Geometry Conference, University of Michigan, March 1989.
- Commutative Algebra Workshop, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil, August 1988 (three lectures).
- Microprogram in Commutative Algebra, MSRI, Berkeley, June 1987.
- Midwest Commutative Algebra Conference, Purdue University, March 1986.
- US-Japan Seminar on Commutative Algebra and Combinatorics, Kyoto, Japan, August 1985.
- Nagoya University, Japan, August 1985.