Commutative Algebra in the Southeast, National Meeting, September 24-26 2010
The Commutative Algebra in the Southeast series of meetings represents a collaborative effort of commutative algebraists at Georgia State University, University of South Carolina and University of Central Florida to increase exposure of their research area in the Southeast through periodic meetings. Each academic year GSU, USC and UCF organize two regional meetings and one national.
In 2010-2011, the national meeting will be hosted by Georgia State University. Organizers: Florian Enescu and Yongwei Yao. The meeting is sponsored by the National Security Agency and Georgia State Research Foundation.
For more information see the following: http://www2.gsu.edu/~matfxe/gsu-usc/nationalmeeting.html.
Month: September 2010
Macaulay2 Workshop in Germany, Feb 2011
Amelia Taylor writes:
Dear Macaulay 2 user,
With funding from the Deutsche Forschungs Gemeinschaft (DFG — the German Research Council), we are organizing a Macaulay 2 workshop, from Monday, February 28, 2011 through Friday, March 4, 2011 with Sunday, February 27 and Saturday, March 5 serving as the travel days. The workshop will be at the Courant Center for Higher Order Structures in Göttingen (www.crcg.de). Activities will start first thing Monday morning (possibly Sunday night).
The purpose of the workshop is to bring Macaulay 2 developers together with those who would like to share or develop their skills at writing packages for Macaulay 2 and those interested in developing the corresponding mathematical algorithms. Continue reading “Macaulay2 Workshop in Germany, Feb 2011”
Azumaya and Hochschild; algebra on TV
We’re saddened to note the passing of two giants of twentieth-century algebra, Goro Azumaya and Gerhard Hochschild.
Azumaya, who introduced the idea of an Azumaya algebra and was a professor emeritus at Indiana University, died July 8 at the age of 90. He received his PhD in 1949 from Nagoya University under the direction of Shokichi Iyanaga.
Hochschild, who introduced Hochschild cohomology, died July 8 at the age of 95. He received his PhD in 1941 from Princeton University under the direction of Claude Chevalley. Among the institutions where he worked are the Institute for Advanced Study, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the University of California, Berkeley, where he spent most of his career and from where he retired. In 1979 Hochschild was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. The next year he received the Leroy P. Steele Prize for “his significant work in homological algebra and its applications.”
On a lighter note, did you catch the theorem on an animated TV show last month? (Thanks to Ian Aberbach for this.)
CIMPA Istanbul
CIMPA (Centre International de Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées) and TÜBİTAK (Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey) are sponsoring a Summer School on Commutative Algebra and Applications to Combinatorics and Algebraic Geometry” 12 – 25 September 2010, in İstanbul Turkey.
This is a rescheduling of last year’s CIMPA summer school in Tehran, which was cancelled.
Activities will be divided into two parts. The first week (12-17 September) is a school with 5 instructional courses by Brodmann, Hoa, Miller, Singh, and Teissier. The second week there will be a conference.
Please see the Summer School web page for more information.