# Irena Peeva

Professor

Malott Hall, Room 547
ivp1@cornell.edu

### Educational Background

• Ph.D. (1995) Brandeis University

• Mathematics

• Mathematics

## Research

Commutative Algebra

My primary work is in Commutative Algebra, and my primary research is focused on Free Resolutions and Hilbert Functions. I have also done work on the many connections of Commutative Algebra with Algebraic Geometry, Noncommutative Algebra, and Subspace Arrangements.

The study of free resolutions and Hilbert functions is a beautiful and core area in Commutative Algebra. It contains a number of challenging important conjectures and open problems. The idea to associate a free resolution to a module was introduced by Hilbert in his famous paper Über the Theorie von algebraischen Formen." Resolutions provide a method for describing the structure of modules.

## Publications

• Counterexamples to the Eisenbud-Goto regularity conjecture, (with J. McCullough), Journal of the AMS 31 (2018), 473–496.
• Tor as a module over an exterior algebra, (with D. Eisenbud and F.-O. Schreyer), Journal of the EMS, to appear.
• Minimal free resolutions over complete intersections, (with D. Eisenbud), research monograph, Lecture Notes in Mathematics 2152, Springer, 2016.
• Hilbert schemes and Betti numbers over Clements-Lindström rings, (with S. Murai), Compositio Math. 148 (2012), 1337–1364.
• Connectedness of Hilbert schemes, (with M. Stillman), J. Alg. Geometry 14 (2005), 193–211.
• Finite regularity and Koszul algebras, (with L. Avramov), American J. Math. 123 (2001), 275–281.
• The lcm-lattice in monomial resolutions, (with V. Gasharov and V. Welker), Math. Res. Lett. 6 (1999),  521–532.
• Generic lattice ideals, (with B. Sturmfels), Journal of the AMS  11 (1998), 363–373.
• Complete intersection dimension, (with L. Avramov and V. Gasharov), Publications Mathematiques IHES 86 (1997), 67–114.