The Fall Central Section Meeting of the AMS will be held at the University of Nebrask-Lincoln, October 14-16, 2011 (Friday – Sunday). This meeting will include at least three special sessions of interest to the commalg community:
- Special Session on Algebraic Geometry and Graded Commutative Algebra co-organized by Susan Cooper and Brian Harbourne.
- Special Session on Local Commutative Algebra co-organized by H Ananthnarayan, Ines B. Henriques and Hamid Rahmati.
- Special Session on Commutative Algebra co-organized by Christina Eubanks-Turner and Aihua Li.
update: The AMS is offering travel grants for this meeting. See this post for more information.
update 2011-10-20/28: Brian Harbourne from UNL is hosting group photos and PDFs of slides from the sessions. Go see! In particular, here are photo 1 and photo 2.
commalg.org is also hosting some of the material from the special Appreciation Event for Roger and Sylvia Wiegand, titled “The Wiegands’ Algebra Family”:
- The presentation in PowerPoint or PDF.
- The Wiegands’ mathematical family trees, combined
- Roger’s mathematical family tree with students and grandstudents
- Sylvia’s mathematical family tree with students and grandstudents
- Showercap photo
