Dear Macaulay 2 user,
With funding from the NSA and the NSF, we are organizing a Macaulay 2 workshop, from Sunday, August 8, 2010 through Thursday, August 12, 2010, with Saturday, August 7 and Friday, August 13 serving as the travel days. The workshop will be at Colorado College in Colorado Springs, CO. Activities will start first thing Sunday morning (possibly Saturday 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 who are interested in developing the corresponding mathematical algorithms. Sample software projects that might be undertaken are visible at http://www.math.uiuc.edu/Macaulay2/dev/projects/ — although this page is rather out of date at this point and we are looking for participants who might have new packages they are interested in. Past workshops topics and activities can be viewed at http://wiki.macaulay2.com/Macaulay2/index.php?title=MSRI2010_-_Main_Page, http://wiki.macaulay2.com/Macaulay2/index.php?title=AIM2009_-_Main_Page, and http://wiki.macaulay2.com/Snowbird/. The new main Macaulay 2 wiki page is at http://wiki.macaulay2.com/Macaulay2 and a project development page is in the process of being built there. Please take a look and consider posting your project on that page.
Attendance at this workshop by invitation only — based on a brief application — and all who are interested are encouraged to apply. Financial support is available for approximately 20-30 people with preference given to younger researchers.
Also, please note that we expect to have such a workshop approximately once per year, so you should look for future announcements as well.
If you would like to attend, please let us know as soon as possible. Everyone interested is strongly encouraged to apply, including graduate students and postdocs. Your application should include
1. information about what algorithms you would like to work on, and what you have done in the past (this is the most important piece — please put some thought into this and be as specific as possible),
2. whether or not you are a citizen or permanent resident of the US (this assists us with budgeting based on where our funding comes from),
3. a good estimate of travel expenses, and whether you would require financial support for housing and meals (when available), and if you will be willing to share a room, (rooms are in limited supply; if additional single rooms are available, and you want one, we may ask you to pay any additional cost). Everyone should include this information in the event that we obtain additional funds.
4. your current institution and rank, and if you are a graduate student, your advisor’s name.
Applications are due by March 1, 2010 and we hope to allocate funds to participants by April 1, 2010.
Our organizer for this workshop is Amelia Taylor. Applications should be directed to Amelia Taylor at amelia.taylor@coloradocollege.edu.
A few other pieces of information you may need:
1. If we pay for your travel, it must be on an American air carrier, if at all possible.
2. Please commit to being present for the entire workshop.
3. You will need to bring your laptop with Macaulay 2 on it to the workshop.
Hirotachi Abo
David Eisenbud
Daniel R. Grayson
Michael E. Stillman
Amelia Taylor
The Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach will be holding an Oberwolfach Seminar on Representations of Finite Groups: Local Cohomology and Support, May 23rd – May 29th, 2010. They have issued a call for applications to participate, including a short summary of previous work and interest, by April 1st, 2010. Please see the web page for the Seminar for more information.
This year’s Midwest Algebra, Geometry and their Interactions Conference (MAGIC’10) will be held at the University of Notre Dame, April 23-25, 2010. The organizers are:
- Nero Budur (University of Notre Dame)
- Alberto Corso (University of Kentucky)
- Juan Migliore (University of Notre Dame)
- Claudia Polini (University of Notre Dame)
The conference continues a well established tradition of commutative algebra and algebraic geometry meetings in the Midwest, among which we single out MAGC97 at the University of Notre Dame in 1997, the first Bluegrass Algebra Conference at the University of Kentucky in 2003, the Lipman-Fest at Purdue University in 2004, MAGIC’05 at the University of Notre Dame in 2005, the Purdue-UIC Workshop at Purdue University in 2006, the Hartshorne’s 70th birthday conference at the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2008, the second Bluegrass Algebra Conference at the University of Kentucky in 2009, and the Libgober’s 60th birthday conference at the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2009.
Young Mathematicians are especially encouraged to attend. There is a limited amount of funding provided by the following sources:
- Department of Matematics (Notre Dame)
- College of Science (Notre Dame)
- Graduate School (Notre Dame)
- Special Algebra Meetings in the Midwest grant (NSF DMS-0753127).
A registration page and further information will be shortly available at the (soon to be released) meeting website.
The 2010 Spring Central Section Meeting in St. Paul, MN will be held April 10-11, 2010. A Special Session on Commutative Ring Theory is being organized by Michael Axtell and Joe Stickles. See the AMS website for the session for more information.
Regional Commutative Algebra Meeting in Southeast March 2010
Atlanta, GA
March 20-21, 2010
The 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 South-East through periodic meetings. For more information, check the meeting website.
The First International Conference on Mathematics and Statistics, AUS-ICMS’10, will be held March 18-21, 2010. Organized by The Department of Mathematics & Statistics, College of Arts and Sciences, American University of Sharjah, and co-sponsored by the American Mathematical Society, the aim of the conference is to bring together researchers and scientists working in the fields of pure mathematics, applied mathematics, mathematics education and statistics. The proposed technical program of the conference will include contributed talks and keynote lectures.
The Algebra Section will include
- Algebras and Coalgebras organized by Robert Wisbauer and Jawad Abuhlail
- Commutative Algebra organized by Ayman Badawi and Ali Jaballah
For more information, see the Algebra Section web page, or send email to Ayman Badawi (abadawi AT aus.edu).
The 2010 International Conference on Algebra and Applications (ICAA 2010) will be held 20-22 February, 2010, in Aligarh, India. The purpose of the conference is to contribute to the development of Algebra and to bring together the Algebraists from all over the world working in the related areas to present their researches, to exchange new ideas, to discuss challenging issues, to foster future collaborations and to expose young researchers.
For a complete list of invited speakers, instructions on how to submit an abstract, and registration information, see the conference web site.
(Update: Conference website address has changed.)
The First Seminar on Combinatorial Commutative Algebra will be held on February 10, 2010 at the School of Mathematics of IPM in Tehran, Iran. The main speaker of the seminar will be Naoki Terai from Saga University, Japan.
More information can be found at the seminar website.
A Workshop on Computational Aspects of Singularity Theory will be held from 22-31 July, 2010 in Skardu, Pakistan. The workshop is being organized by the Abdus Salam School of Mathematical Sciences. For more information, see the website for the workshop.
The American Institute of Mathematics in Palo Alto, California will host the workshop “Components of Hilbert Schemes” July 19 to July 23, 2010. The workshop is being organized by Robin Hartshorne, Diane Maclagan, and Gregory G. Smith.
Space and funding is available for a few more participants. If you would like to participate, please apply by filling out the on-line form no later than March 19, 2010.
For more information, please consult the webpage for the workshop.