There will be a conference on “Commutative rings, integer-valued polynomials and polynomial functions” in Graz, Austria, December 19–22, 2012. Confirmed speakers (as of July 2011) include:
- Jean-Luc Chabert
- Sarah Glaz
- Byung Gyun Kang
- Alan Loper
- Irena Swanson
For more information, see the web page for the conference.
The conference will be preceded by a mini-course on commutative rings, integer-valued polynomials and polynomial functions Dec. 16-18, 2012, taught by the main speakers of the conference.
Kristen Beck and Silvia Saccon are organizing a Special Session on Topics in Commutative Algebra for the 2012 Fall Western Section Meeting of the AMS at the University of Arizona in Tucson, AZ, October 27-28.
The 22nd annual Route 81 Conference will be held on 20-21 October, 2012 at Queen’s University.
For more information, see the conference web site.
The Fall Central Section Meeting of the AMS will be held at the University of Akron, October 20 – 21, 2012 (Saturday – Sunday). This meeting will include a Special Session on Commutative Algebra organized by Livia Hummel (University of Indianapolis) and Sean Sather-Wagstaff (North Dakota State University).
The AMS Southeastern Fall Section Meeting will be held October 13-14, 2012 (Saturday – Sunday) at Tulane University, New Orleans, LA. This meeting will include a Special Session on Combinatorial Commutative Algebra organized by Chris Francisco, Tai Ha, and Adam Van Tuyl.
The University of Mohaghegh Ardabili in Ardabili, Iran, will host a workshop on Algebra and its Applications August 31 — September 1, 2012.
Title: Second Workshop on Algebra and its Applications
Date: August 31-September 1, 2012
Place: University of Mohaghegh Ardabili, Iran
Abstract submission deadline: August 11, 2012
Weblink: http://www.uma.ac.ir/index.php?slc_lang=en&sid=25
There will be also a summer school after this workshop with the following information:
Title: Combinatorial Commutative Algebra and its Applications
Starts from: September 2, 2012 for two weeks
Place: University of Mohaghegh Ardabili, Iran
Speakers: S. Yassemi, M.R. Pournaki, H.R. Maimani, and M. Alizadeh.
Sections: Simplicial Complexes, Graph Theory and Poset Theory
Weblink: http://www.uma.ac.ir/index.php?slc_lang=en&sid=25
MSRI will hold a Special Year in Commutative Algebra, August 20, 2012 – May 24, 2013. More information about the program can be found at the website maintained by the organizers http://www.math.utah.edu/ca/ and the MSRI program website http://www.msri.org/web/msri/scientific/programs/upcoming-programs/show/-/event/Pm142.
With funding from the National Science Foundation and National Security Agency,
a Macaulay2 workshop will be held Sunday, August 5, 2012 through
Thursday, August 9, 2012 with Saturday, August 4 and Friday, August 10 serving
as the travel days. The workshop will be at Wake Forest University in
Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Activities will start first thing Sunday morning
(possibly Saturday night).
The purpose of the workshop is to bring Macaulay2 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. Some sample software projects that might be undertaken are visible
at http://www.math.uiuc.edu/Macaulay2/dev/projects/ although the organizers are also
looking for participants who might have new packages they are interested
in. Further examples of possible projects are available as part of past
workshop topics, which can be viewed at
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 projects 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 the organizers 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:
- 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),
- 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, the organizers may ask you to pay any additional cost).
- Your current institution and rank, and if you are a graduate student, your
advisor’s name.
Applications are due by Monday, April 16, 2012 and the organizers hope to allocate funds to participants by Tuesday, May 1, 2012.
The application page is available here
A few other pieces of information you may need:
- Please commit to being present for the entire workshop.
- You will need to bring your laptop with Macaulay2 on it to the workshop.
Organizers:
- David Eisenbud
- Daniel R. Grayson
- Frank Moore
- Michael E. Stillman
- Amelia Taylor
There will be a Summer School and Workshop on “Cohomology and Support in Representation Theory” in Seattle, Washington, July 27–August 5, 2012. The Seattle Summer π-School will run July 27–30, and the conference will be held August 1–5.
From the website:
The theme of this two week event will be a survey of the state of the art in the use of cohomology and supports in the study of representation theory. The first week will be a prepatory summer school intended for graduate students, recent doctoral recipients, or others new to the field to introduce the fundamental ideas. Three speakers will each present a series of four lectures. The second week of the conference will consist of talks on latest develoments in the field with ample time for discussion and collaboration.
The summer school speakers will be Paul Balmer, Dave Benson, and Srikanth Iyengar. See the web page for more information about the school and the conference.
Summer School
Discrete Morse Theory and Commutative Algebra
July 18 – August 1, 2012 at Institut Mittag Leffler, Stockholm, Sweden
Organized by Bruno Benedetti and Alexander Engström.
The summer school will focus on recent developments in combinatorial topology and discrete geometry, with an emphasis on the interaction with toric geometry and commutative algebra. A promising contemporary method for getting simple explicit descriptions of topological spaces is discrete Morse theory. Its applications range from real world problems, such as shape recognition, to theoretical studies of topological spaces, which encode important invariants from algebra, geometry and topology.
Program participants will learn how to use these state-of-the-art tools to investigate a variety of topics such as: complements of hyperplane arrangements, resolutions of monomial and toric ideals, knots in triangulated manifolds, metric structures on simplicial complexes, spaces realizing desired cohomology rings, and topological representations of matroids.
Practical information:
Free accommodation and meals are provided. Visitors are responsible to pay for their own travel costs to and from Djursholm/Stockholm, Sweden. However, the Institute has some limited funds available to assist those visitors whose home institutions or research grants cannot pay for their travel costs. Please let us know as soon as possible if you need travel support.
Apply at latest by April 15, 2012 at http://www.mittag-leffler.se/summer2012/summerschools/discrete_morse_theory/.