This workshop, which is organized as part of the Mathematical Panorama Lectures during the National Mathematical Year (2012) celebrations on the occasion of the 125th birthday of Srinivasa Ramanujan, will consist of a week-long preparatory workshop (17-22 December 2012), for graduate students and young researchers, on syzygies and free resolutions followed, in the next week (24-28 December 2012), by lectures on recent developments in this area. The principal speaker for the second week will be Prof. David Eisenbud (University of California, Berkeley, USA), who will give a series of lectures on free resolutions. In addition to Prof. Eisenbud's talks, we will have a series of lectures by experts in the area of syzygies and free resolutions.

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The following speakers have agreed to speak at the workshop (24-28 December 2012).
  • Srikanth Iyengar, University of Nebraska, USA.
  • Jaya Iyer, IMSc, Chennai.
  • Vikram Mehta, TIFR, Mumbai.
  • Bangere Purnaprajna, University of Kansas, USA.
  • S. Ramanan, CMI, Siruseri.
  • Hema Srinivasan, University of Missouri, USA.
  • Kavita Sutar-Deshpande, CMI, Siruseri.

The speakers for the preparatory workshop (17-22 December 2012):
  • Krishna Hanumanthu, CMI, Siruseri.
  • Manoj Kummini, CMI, Siruseri.
  • Pramathanath Sastry, CMI, Siruseri.
  • Sudhir Ghorpade, IIT-Bombay, Mumbai.