Curriculum Vitae

Ping Li Jeff. #229, Dept. of Math. & Stat. Queen's University, Kingston, ON. K7L 3N6 Email: pingli@mast.queensu.ca

My CV (pdf file)

Education:

• 9/2000 - 5/2005 , Ph.D. Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Queen's University. Supervisor: Dr. Roberts, Leslie.
• 1997 - 2000, M.Sc. Department of Mathematics, Hebei Teacher's University, Supervisor: Dr. Liu, Zongze
• 1985 - 1989, B.Sc. Mathematics Department, Hebei Teacher's University, Hebei, China

Work Experience:

• 5/2005 - present, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Queen's University
• 9/2000 - 4/2005, Research Assistant, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Queen's University
• 9/2000 - 4/2005, Teaching Fellow, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Queen's University
• 9/2000 - 8/2002, Teaching Assistant, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Queen's University
• 9/1989 - 8/2000, Adjunct/Assistant Professor, Faculty of Science, Hebei Science and Technology University, Hebei, China

Publications:

• On Seminormal Monoid Rings Winfried Bruns, Ping Li and Tim Romer, Journal of Algebra 302 (2006) 361-386.
• Cohen-Macaulay and Seminormal Affine Semigroups in Dimension Three, Ping Li and Leslie Roberts, submitted.
• Bases and Ideal Generators for Projective Monomial Curves, Ping Li, D. Patil and Leslie Roberts, in progress.
• Thesis - Seminormality and the Cohen-Macaulay Property
• A Computer Program

  This program is devoted to supporting research on the cohomological properties of semigroup rings in Commutative Algebra, Especially focusing on non-normal semigroup rings. It is written by using Mathematica and works under the Mathematica environment.

  This program computes the Hilbert basis of a semigroup, the Cohen-Macaulay property of a semigroup ring and the type and socle of a standard simplicial Cohen-Macaulay semigroup ring.

• Math 126 Workbook, Ping Li, et al, Queen's University

Invited Talks:

• Dec. 12, 2004, Seminormality and the Cohen-Macaulay Property, CMS Winter Conference, Dec. 10 - 13, 2004, Montreal

Presentations:

• October 1, 2004, Cohen-Macaulay Property and Seminormality, Route 81 Conference and Workshop, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
• April 02,2004, A Mysterious Extension of a Semigroup, Grad. Seminar, Math. \& Stat. Dept. Queen's University.
• January 13, 2004, The Cohen-Macaulay Property and Seminormality, Curve Seminar, Math. & Stat. Dept. Queen's University.
• June 13, 2003, Visualizing Cohen-Macaulay Semigroup Rings, Workshop of Connecting Woman in Mathematics Across Canada, June 11-13, 2003, University of Alberta.
• Jan. 21, 2003, Normal and Seminormal Semigroup Rings, Grad. Seminar, Math. & Stat. Dept. Queen's University.
• August 8, 2002, A discussion about the Cohen-Macaulay and seminormal properties of an affine semigroup ring, Comprehensive Exam, Math. & Stat. Dept. Queen's University.
• April 3 and May 1,2002, Affine Semigroups and Cohen-Macaulay Rings Generated by Monomials, Curve Seminar, Math. & Stat. Dept. Queen's University.
• October - November, 2001, Principal Ideal Theorem, Curve Seminar, Math. & Stat. Dept. Queen's University.
• April 3 and May 1,2002, Affine Semigroups and Cohen-Macaulay Rings Generated by Monomials, Curve Seminar, Math. & Stat. Dept. Queen's University.

Conferences attended:

• Commutative Algebra Conference, honoring the contributions of Phillip Griffith, Sept. 16-18, 2005, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois
• 2nd Workshop on Resolutions, Inverse Systems, and Coinvariants, January 13-15, 2005, University of Ottawa, Ottawa
• CMS Winter Conference, Dec. 10 - 13, 2004, Montreal
• Route 81 Conference and Workshop, September 30-October 4, 2004, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
• Workshop in Inverse System, January 15-17, 2004, Queen's University.
• Workshop of Connecting Woman in Mathematics Across Canada, June 11-13, 2003, University of Alberta.
• Workshop in Invariant Theory, April 2002, Queen's University.
• Route 81 Conference on Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry, October 26, 2002, Queen's University
• Route 81 Conference on Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry, November 2001. University at Albany, SUNY, Albany, New York
• The COCOA VII Conference, July 2001.

Awards:

• Queen's Graduate Awards & Queen's University, 2000--2004

Computer Skills:

• Computer Languages: C, and Basic
• Symbolic computation programs used frequently for my research are: Normaliz, Mathematica, Macaulay2, Maple, and Matlab.
• A computer program is developed to support my research on semigroup ring properties by using Mathematica (Please refer "Articles").

Volunteer Jobs:

• 2/2002 -- 2005, Volunteer for the ``Family and Friends of International Adoption Playgroup'' in Kingston.
• Winter 2002, Volunteer for Math Bridge, which is a Queen's student organization to enrich children's education in Math.