Contents -- Dedication -- Preface -- Photo-Luminy Participants -- Luminy Speaker List -- Photo-Annapolis Participants -- Annapolis Speaker List -- Dr. Ruth I. Michler's research -- Jacobian pairs -- Inclusion-exclusion and Segre classes, II -- Expressions for resultants coming from the global theory of singularities -- Applications of multilinear forms to cryptography -- On Puiseux exponents for higher dimensional singularities -- Desingularization: A few bad examples in dim. 3, characteristic p> 0 -- The zeta-function of a quasi-ordinary singularity II
Lehmer's problem, McKay's correspondence, and 2, 3, 7On the weak Deligne-Simpson problem for index of rigidity 2, with an appendix by Ofer Gabber -- Elliptic fibrations and elliptic models -- The equivalence of the geometric and algebraic group laws for Jacobians of genus 2 curves -- Invariant subspaces of the monodromy -- Some conjectures about quasi-ordinary singularities -- Two differential themes in characteristic zero -- Some normal monomial ideals -- Surfaces in P3 over finite fields -- The continuous Hochschild cochain complex of a scheme (survey)
Topics in algebraic and noncommutative geometry: proceedings in memory of Ruth Michler, July 20-22, 2001, Luminy, France [and] October 25-28, 2001, Annapolis, Maryland