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International Conference and Workshop on Valuation Theory
July 26 - August 11, 1999
University of Saskatchewan
Saskatoon, SK, Canada

Organizers
Franz-Viktor Kuhlmann, Salma Kuhlmann, Murray Marshall, Deirdre Haskell, Hans Schoutens

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Valuations on Curves (tutorial)
by
Ruth I. Michler
University of North Texas

This tutorial deals with valuations as they arise in the study of Algebraic Geometry and the study of algebraic curves in particular. Topics to be discussed include:

1. Valuations (definitions & examples).

2. Valuation rings & their centers.

3. Points & places.

4. How to construct a curve from "points". Abstract curves.

5. What goes wrong in the singular case.

6. Divisors.

Date received: July 12, 1999

Copyright © 1999 by the author(s). The author(s) of this document and the organizers of the conference have granted their consent to include this abstract in Atlas Mathematical Conference Abstracts. Document # cacv-77.