Commutative Algebra and its Interactions A conference in honor of Mel Hochster July 31 - August 5, 2008 Speakers Name Talk Aberbach, Ian Estimating lower bounds for Hilbert-Kunz multiplicities Avramov, Luchezar New avatars of Intersection Theorems Blickle, Manuel Modules with a Frobenius action Brenner, Holger Tight closure is the better idea(l) Bruns, Winfried Rings of invariants Dao, Hailong Vanishing of Tor and torsion-freeness of the divisor class groups denkizer, denkizer joined this forum Dutta, Sankar Filtered Resolution, Intersection Multiplicity and Blow-up Eisenbud, David Free Resolutions Enescu, Florian Hilbert-Kunz multiplicities Hara, Nobuo Strong F-regularity vs. log terminal singularity in non-Q-Gorenstein case Heitmann, Raymond Lifting Seminormality Huneke, Craig The work of Mel Hochster, a personal view Lakshmibai, Venkatramani Frobenius-split property for certain rings of invariants Lipman, Joseph Grothendieck operations and coherence in categories Lyubeznik, Gennady Frobenius and Local Cohomology Miller, Claudia Concerning limit Hilbert-Kunz multiplicities Mustata, Mircea Bernstein-Sato polynomials in positive characteristic Polini, Claudia Blowup algebras of codimension two ideals Roberts, Paul The Homological Conjectures Schwede, Karl A geometric characterization of F-ideals/centers of F-purity Swanson, Irena Integral closure Takagi, Shunsuke Computations of log canonical thresholds: a positive characteristic approach Vraciu, Adela Drops in Joint Hilbert-Kunz multiplicity Yao, Yongwei Embedding theorems and uniform test exponents