10.30 - 11.10. W. Bruns (Universitaet Osnabrueck): "Normaliz: algorithms for rational cones and affine monoids".

11.20 - 11.50. Coffee break.

11.50 - 12.30. A. Maffei (Universita' di Roma I): "Equations defining symmetric varieties".

12.30 - 13.10. G. Casnati (Politecnico di Torino): "Is the Gorenstein locus of the punctual Hilbert scheme irreducible?".

13.20 - 15.20. Lunch.

15.20 - 16.00. L. Barbieri-Viale (Universita' di Milano): "Sharp cohomologies and formal Hodge structures".

16.10 - 16.50. S. Greco (Politecnico di Torino): "Maximal rank curves and cohomology".

17.00 - 17.30. Coffee break.

17.30 - 18.10. E. Carlini (Politecnico di Torino): "Configuration of linear spaces".

18.20 - 19.00. M. Kreuzer (Universitaet Passau): "Border Basis Schemes".

19.00 - 19.45. Informal discussion.

20.15 - 23.00. Social dinner.