Contents -- Preface -- Program talks -- On the occasion of the 65th birthday of Hyman Bass -- A professional autobiography -- Crossing boundaries to examine the mathematics entailed in elementary teaching -- Bass's work on the Jacobian conjecture -- Torsion in genus class groups -- Hyman Bass and ubiquity: Gorenstein rings -- Introduction -- Plane Curves -- Commutative Algebra circa 1960 -- Gorenstein Rings -- Examples and Low Codimension -- Injective Modules and Matlis Duality -- Ubiquity -- Homological Themes
""Inverse Powers and O-dimensional Gorenstein Rings""""Hilbert Functions""; ""Invariants and Gorenstein Rings""; ""Ubiquity and Module Theory""; ""Bibliography""; ""A salute to Euler and Dickson on the occasion of Hy's 65th birthday""; ""Bass's work in ring theory and projective modules""; ""Â0. Introduction""; ""Part I: Projective (and Torsionfree) Modules""; ""Â1. Big Projectives""; ""Â2. Stable Structure of Projective Modules""; ""Â3. Work Related to Serre's Conjecture""; ""Â4. Rings with Binary Generated Ideals: Bass Rings""; ""Part II: Ring Theory""
""Â5. Semiperfect Rings as Generalizations of Semiprimary Rings""""Â6. Perfect Rings and Restricted DCC""; ""Â 7. Perfect Rings and Representation Theory""; ""Â8. Stable Range of Rings""; ""Â9. Rings of Stable Range One""; ""References""; ""One for almost all: generation of SL(n,p) by subsets of SL(n, Z)""; ""Deformations of representations""; ""Trees, lattices and commensurators""; ""A survey of obstruction theory for projective modules of top rank""; ""The congruence subgroup problem""; ""Three-manifold topology and the tree for PSL2: the Smith conjecture and beyond""
