Back to Sarah Glaz's home page
Coordinates:
Mailing Address: Department of Mathematics
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT 06269
Phone Numbers: (860) 486 9153
Fax Numbers: (860) 346
5284, (860) 486 4238
E-mail Address: glaz AT
math.uconn.edu, Sarah.Glaz AT uconn.edu
Web Page:
http://www.math.uconn.edu/~glaz
Birthplace: Romania
Education:
Ph.D. 1977
Rutgers
University
B.S. 1972 Tel
Aviv University
Experience:
Positions:
2006 -
present Graduate Director for Instructional Development,
University of Connecticut
1998 -
present Professor, University of Connecticut
1989 -
1997 Associate Professor,
University of Connecticut
1988 -
1989 Associate Professor, George
Mason University
1980 -
1988
Assistant Professor, Wesleyan University
1978 -
1980 Research
Associate, Case Western Reserve University
1978
Instructor, Rutgers University
Visiting Positions:
2005
Summer Visiting Professor, University of
Padova, Italy
2003 Spring
Visiting Professor, University of Marseille, Marseille, France
1988 -
1989
Visiting Scholar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1986
Visiting Scholar, Rutgers University
Professional Societies:
American
Mathematical
Society
Association
of Women in Mathematics
Mathematical
Association of America
Research Interests:
Commutative
Algebra,
Homological Algebra, Non Noetherian
Ring Theory: Coherent and Related rings,
Noetherian Ring
Theory: Cohen Macaulay, Regular and
Related rings, Mathematical Education
Professional Activities:
Editorial Positions:
2006 -
present Editorial Board Member, International Electronic
Journal of Algebra (IEJA)
Reviewing and Refereeing for:
The Math
Reviews,
since 1980
Publishing
Houses:
McGraw Hill, Prentice Hall
Grants Agencies:
NSF, Algebra and Number Theory; NSA
Journals:
Journal
of Algebra, Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra, Proceedings of
American
Mathematical
Society, Communications in Algebra,
Houston
Mathematics Journal,
Canadian
Mathematics Bulletin, Rocky Mountain Journal, Michigan Mathematics
Journal, American Math Monthly,
Journal of
Algebra and Its Applications
Conference Organization:
2007 Session Chair, Trends in Algebra, Prague, Checz
Republic.
2007
Organizer (with Alan Stein, Charles Vinsonhaler and William Wickless),
AGAMOCR 2007: International Conference on Abelian Groups and
Modules over Commutative
Rings, University of Connecticut, Storrs, June 11-15, 2007
2006
Section
Chair Workshop on Commutative Algebra, Cortona, Italy.
2000
Section
Chair, Deuxieme Recontre Internationale sur les Polynomes a
Valeurs Entiers,
CIRM, Luminy, France.
1999 Special Section Organizer (with Evan Houston and Tom Lucas), Fall AMS Meeting, Charlotte, North Carolina.
1995 Local Coordinator (with Paul Fallone), Spring AMS Meeting, Hartford, Connecticut.
1995
Special
Session Organizer (with Evan Houston), Spring AMS Meeting, Hartford,
Connecticut.
Membership in National Panels:
1996 NSF Review Panel, RPG/CAA-MRPG/MCAA Awards (Women and Minorities).
National Mentoring:
2001
AWM - Young Ph.D. Mentoring, Annual AMS Meeting, New Orleans,
LA.
External Ph.D. Examiner:
2008 Chahrazade Bakkari , Thesis: Content, Gaussian Polynomials and Prufer-Like Conditions, Universite S.M. Ben Abdellah-Fez, Morocco
2008 Driss
Bennis, Thesis: Dimensions
Homologiques de Gorenstein, Universite
S.M. Ben Abdellah-Fez, Morocco
2001
Najib Mahdou, Thesis:
Classes de
Produits Fibres et d'Extensions triviales d'Anneaux Definies par des
Conditions
Homologiques,
Universite
S.M. Ben Abdellah-Fez, Morocco
1995 M. Mohamed El Hajjar, Thesis: Bonnes Mesures et Bonnes Proprietes, Universite D'Aix-Marseille, France
Ph.D. Thesis Advisor:
Major Advisor,
present : Su Liang, University of Connecticut
Associate Advisor,
2001
Muge Kanuni, Thesis: Dense Ideals and
Maximal
Quotient
Rings of Incidence Algebras, University of Connecticut
Master Thesis Advisor:
1986
Audrey Marion Grabfield, Thesis: Grete
Hermann's
Paper: The Question of The Finitely Many Steps
in The Theory of
Polynomial
Ideals,
Wesleyan
University
Teaching Honors and
Awards:
2007 - 2008 University Teaching
Fellow
2006
Mention in MAA CUPM
Report: Mathematical Modeling in the
Environment
(one of the six nationwide illustrations of courses all math
programs should develop)
2005
A Winner of the Provost's General Education Course Development
Grant Competition
2004
AAUP Excellence in Teaching Innovation
Award, University of Connecticut
Research Grants and Awards:
2007 -
2008 UConn OSP Faculty Small
Research Grant
2007 - 2008
UConn
OSP Interdisciplinary Colloquium Series Award
2007 -
2008 NSA Conference
Grant (PI: Sarah Glaz, Co-PIs: Charles Vinsonhaler, William Wickless)
2006 - 2007
UConn OSP Short Term Guest Professorship Award for Paul-Jean Cahen,
Universite d'Aix Marseille (nominator and host: Sarah Glaz)
2005
Summer University of
Padova Visiting Professorship
2003 Spring
University of
Marseille Visiting Professorship
2002 -
2003
UConn Research
Foundation, Sabbatical Grant
1994 -
2001 UConn Research
Foundation, Faculty Small Grants
1993
NSF - AWM Travel
Grant
1985 -
1988 NSF Grant
Travel Awards from Host Institutions:
2008
Fifth
International
Conference on Commutative Ring Theory, Fez, Morocco
2007
Some Trends in Algebra, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
2006
Workshop in
Commutative Algebra, Universita degli Roma Tre, Cortona, Italy
2005
Universita di
Padova, Padova, Italy
2005
Universita di
Roma Tre, Rome, Italy
2004
Commutative
Rings and Monoids, University of Graz, Austria
2004
Commutative
Rings and Their Modules, Universita degli Roma Tre, Cortona, Italy
2003
University of
Clermont-Ferrand,
France
2002 Joint
AMS/UMI Meeting,
Pisa, Italy
2001
Fourth
International
Conference on Commutative Ring Theory, Fez, Morocco
2000
Deuxieme
Recontre
Internationale sur les Polynomes Entiers, CIRM, Luminy, France
1999
Commutative
Algebra and Algebraic Geometry Conference, Messina, Italy
1998
Summer Workshop
in Commutative Algebra and Representation Theory in honor of
David Buchsbaum,
Genova, Italy
1996
Spring AMS
Meeting,
Iowa City, IA
1995
Second
International
Conference on Commutative Ring Theory, Fes, Morocco
1994
Barrett Memorial
Lectures and Conference, Knoxville, TN
1993
Colloque Algebre
et Applications, Marseille, France
1992
Workshop in
Commutative
Algebra, Trieste, Italy
Conferences and Invited Talks
Plenary Talks and Lecture Series:
2008 Major Talk: TBA, Fifth International Conference on Commutative Ring Theory, Fez, Morocco
2007 Plenary Talk: Homological Characterizations of Prufer-Like Rings. Some Trends in Algebra, Prague, Czech Republic
2004 Plenary Talk: Gaussian Rings: Their Homological Dimensions and Prufer-Like Properties. Commutative Rings and Their Modules, Cortona, Italy
2003
Lecture Series: A Homological
Algebra Approach To Finiteness Properties. University
of Marseille, Marseille, France
2001 Plenary Talk: Gaussian Rings. Fourth International Conference on Commutative Ring Theory, Fez, Morocco
Other Talks Since 1989:
2007
AMS Meeting, New Brunswick, New Jersey. Invited Talk: Homological Characterizations of Gaussian
Properties of Rings
2007
AMS Meeting, Davidson, North Carolina. Invited Talk: Weak Dimensions of Total Rings of Quotients
2006 Workshop on Commutative Algebra, Cortona Italy. Invited Talk: Gaussian Properties of Total Rings of Quotients
2006 Annual
AMS
Meeting, San Antonio, Texas. Invited Talk: Gaussian Properties of Total Rings of Quotients,
(not
presented in person)
2005
Universita di Roma Tre, Rome , Italy. Invited Talk: Gaussian Properties of Total Rings of Quotients
2005
Universita di Padova, Padova, Italy. Invited Talk: Gaussian Properties of Total Rings of Quotients
2004
AMS Meeting, Tallahassee, Florida. Invited Talk: Prufer Conditions
On
Rings
2004
Commutative Rings and Monoids: International Symposium
in Honor of Franz
Halter-Koch. Invited Talk: When is a
Gaussian Ring Arithmetical?
2003
University of Clermont-Ferrand, France.Colloquium Talk:
Extension of The Notion of a Prufer Domain to
Rings With Zero-Divisors
2003
AMS Meeting, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Invited Talk: Extension of
the Notion of a
Prufer Domain To Rings With Zero-Divisors
2002 Algebra
Conference, Venezia 2002, Venice, Italy. Invited Talk: Controlling the Zero-divisors of
a Commutative Ring
2002 Joint AMS/UMI Meeting, Pisa,
Italy. Invited Talk: Homological
Behavior of Gaussian Rings
With Zero-Divisor Controlling Conditions
2001 National AMS Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana. Invited Talk: Homological Characterizations of Gaussian Rings
2000 Deuxieme
Recontre Internationale Sur Les Polynomes Entiers, CIRM, Luminy,
France. Invited
Talk: Finite Conductor properties of
R(X) and R<X>
1999 National AMS Meeting, San Antonio, Texas. Invited Talk: Finite Conductor Conditions in Localizations of Polynomial Rings
1999
Commutative
Algebra and Algebraic Geometry Conference, Messina, Italy. Invited
Talk:
Multiplicative Properties of Content
Ideals
1998
Homological
Algebra and Representation Theory Conference in Honor of David
Buchsbaum,
Genova,
Italy.
Invited Talk: An Application
of Buchsbaum-Eisenbud Exactness
Criterion
for Complexes to Polynomial Rings Over Coherent Rings
1997 Annual AMS Meeting, San Diego, California. Invited Talk: On Finite Conductor Rings
1997 Summer Workshop on Commutative Algebra, Marseille, France. Invited Talk: G-GCD Rings
1997 Fall AMS
Meeting, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Invited Talk: Polynomial Rings Over Coherent
Rings
1996 Spring AMS Meeting, Iowa City, Iowa. Invited Talk: Gaussian Polynomials and Content Invertibility
1996 Fall AMS
Meeting, Chattanooga, Tennessee, Invited Talk: Some Relations Between Finite
Conductor Property and Coherence
1995 Second
International
Conference on Commutative Ring Theory, Fez, Morocco. Invited Talk:
Content of Polynominals
1994 Barrett
Memorial Lectures Conference, Knoxville, Tennessee. Invited Talk:
Homological
dimensions of Localizations of polynomial rings
1994 Workshop
in Commutative Algebra, Trieste, Italy. Invited Talk: Regular Localizations
of Polynomial Rings
1993 Spring AMS Meeting, Knoxville, Tennessee. Invited Talk: Von Neumann Regular and Principal Projective Endomorphism Rings
1993 Meeting
on Algebra and Applications, Marseille, France. Invited Talk: Some Finiteness and
Homological Properties of Endomorphism Rings
1992 A.M.S.
Meeting,
Springfield, Massachusetts. Invited Talk: Fixed Rings of Coherent Regular Rings
1992 Workshop
in Commutative Algebra, Trieste, Italy. Invited Talk: Coherence, Regularity,
and Homological Dimensions of Fixed Rings
1991 Summer
AMS
Mathfest, Orono, Maine. Invited Talk: Subalgebras
of Polynomial
Rings
1990 Third Mid-Atlantic Algebra Conference, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Virginia. Invited Talk: Hereditary Localizations of Polynomial Rings
1990 Rutgers University. Invited Talk: Non Noetherian Regular Localizations of Polynomial Rings
1989
University
of Missouri, Columbia.
Colloquium
Talk:
Commutative Coherent Rings: Historical
Perspective and Recent
Developments
1989
University
of Missouri, Columbia. Seminar Talk:
Non Noetherian Regular Rings
1989 Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Invited Series of Talks: Recent Developments in Coherent Ring Theory.
Books:
Sarah Glaz
and JoAnne Growney, Strange
Attractors: Poems of Love and Mathematics, A K Peters,
Ltd., in press (expected
publication date: October 2008)
Sarah Glaz ,
Commutative Coherent Rings, Springer Verlag Lecture
Notes in Math. Vol. 1371, 1989. Reissued by Springer for Online
and Print-on-Demand, 2007
James Brewer,
William Heinzer, Sarah Glaz and Bruce Olberding (Editors): Multiplicative Ideal Theory in
Commutative Algebra:
a tribute to the work of
Robert Gilmer, Springer 2006
Scott Chapman
and Sarah Glaz (Editors),
Non-Noetherian Commutative Ring Theory,
Kluwer Academic Publishers, MAIA Vol. 520, 2000
Sarah
Glaz, Instructor's
Resources for Introductory College Algebra and Mathematical Modeling,
Online:
http://www.math.uconn.edu/~glaz/math104s08
Articles:
Versed in Math: Modeling with Poetry in an Intermediate Algebra Course
and Beyond (with Su Liang), submitted
The
Gaussian
Property of Total Rings of Quotients (with
Silvana Bazzoni), Journal of Alg. 310, 180 - 193, 2007
Prufer Rings (with Silvana
Bazzoni), in: Multiplicative Ideal Theory in Commutative Algebra,
Springer, 55 - 73, 2006
Prufer Conditions In Rings With Zero-Divisors, CRC Lecture Notes in Pure App. Math. Vol. 241, 272 - 282, 2005
The Weak Dimensions of Gaussian Rings, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc.
133, 2507 - 2513, 2005
Homological
Characterization of Rings: Commutative Case, The Concise
Handbook of Algebra,
Kluwer Academic Publishers, 505 - 508, 2002
Controlling
the Zero-Divisors of a Commutative Ring, Marcel Dekker
Lecture Notes in Pure
Appl. Math. Vol. 231, 191 - 212, 2002
Finite Conductor Properties of R(X) and R<X>, Marcel Dekker Lecture Notes in Pure Appl. Math. Vol. 220, 231 - 250, 2001
Gaussian Ideals and Dedekind Mertens Lemma (with Alberto Corso), Marcel Dekker Lecture Notes in Pure Appl. Math. Vol. 217, 131 - 144, 2001
Finite
Conductor
Rings, Proc. American Math. Soc. 129, 2833 - 2843, 2001
Finite Conductor Property in Rings With Zero Divisors, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Math. and Its Appl. Vol. 520, 251 - 271, 2000
One
Hundred
Problems in Commutative Ring Theory, Kluwer Academic Publishers,
Math. and Its
Appl. Vol. 520, 459 - 476, 2000
The
Content
of Gaussian Polynomials (with Wolmer Vasconcelos), J. of Algebra
202,
1-
9, 1998
Gaussian
Polynomials
(with Wolmer Vasconcelos), Marcel Dekker Lecture Notes in Pure Appl.
Math.
Vol. 185, 325 - 339, 1997
Splitting
Rings for p-local Torsion Free Groups (with Charles Vinsonhaler and
William Wickless),
Marcel Dekker
Lecture Notes in Pure Appl. Math.
Vol. 171, 223 -
241, 1995
Homological
Dimensions of Localizations of Polynomial Rings, Marcel Dekker
Lecture Notes in
Pure
Appl. Math.
Vol. 171, 209 - 223, 1995
Regular and Principle Projective Endomorphism Rings of Mixed Abelian Groups (with William Wickless), Comm in Alg. 22, 1161 - 1176, 1994
Coherence,
Regularity and Homological Dimensions of Fixed Rings, Commutative
Algebra, World
Scientific, 89 - 106, 1994
Commutative Coherent Rings: Historical Perspective and Current Developments, Nieuw Archief Voor Wiskunde 10, 37 - 56, 1992
Fixed
Rings
of Coherent Regular Rings, Comm. in Algebra 20, 2635 - 2651, 1992
Hereditary
Localizations of Polynomial Rings, J. of Algebra 140, 101 - 112,
1991
On The
Coherence
and Weak Dimension of The Rings R<x> and R(x), Proc. American
Math. Soc. 106,
579 - 587, 1989
Regular Symmetric Algebras, J. of Algebra 112, 129 - 138, 1988
Factoriality
and Finiteness Properties of Subalgebras Over Which k[x1,
... ,xn] Is Faithfully
Flat, Comm. in Algebra 16, 1791 - 1811, 1988
On The
Weak
Dimension of Coherent Group Rings, Comm. in Algebra 15, 1841- 1858,
1987
Flat
Ideals
III (with Wolmer Vasconcelos), Comm. in Algebra 12, 199 - 227, 1984
A
Differential
Characterization of Flat Ideals in Commutative Rings, Marcel Dekker
Lecture Notes
in Pure Appl. Math. Vol. 68, 67 - 73, 1982
A Differential Characterization of Flat Ideals in Rings of Characteristic p >0, Comm.in Algebra 9, 367 - 380, 1981
Some
Counterexamples
to Differential Criteria for Flatness (with William Brown), Proc.
American Math.
Soc. 81, 505 - 510, 1981
Differrential
Criteria for Flatness, Proc. American Math. Soc. 79, 17 - 22, 1980
Flat
Ideals
II (with Wolmer Vasconcelos), Manuscripta Math. 22, 325 - 341, 1977
Finiteness and differential properties of ideals, Ph.D. Thesis, Rutgers University, 1977
Luroth's
Problem
For Rings (with Judith Sally and Wolmer Vasconcelos), J. of Algebra
43, 699
-
708, 1976
Edited Issues:
Riva Berleant-Schiller, Gail Courey, Ken Fuchsman, Sarah Glaz, and Maria Stankus-Saulaitis (Editors), Ibis Review, Poetry and Prose, Vol. 1, 1995
Sarah Glaz (Editor and Reading Coordinator), Five Poets Speak Out, a Session of the Women Speak Out Symposium, University of Connecticut,1992
Poems and Translations:
Three Poems: Love Story, Calculus, and Late Afternoon at the Workshop in
Commutative Algebra, to appear in: Strange Attractors, A K Peters,
Ltd. 2008
Ut Algebra Poesis, by Ion Barbu. Translated from Romanian (with JoAnne Growney), The American Math Monthly 113,792 - 793, 2006
Calculus
(a poem), Humanistic
Mathematics Network Journal, Issue 26, 30-31, 2002