The aim of the Summer School is to introduce younger researchers and graduate students to modern trends of the theory of singularities, including both algebraic and geometric aspects, and both classical approaches and the newest ones, related to derived categories, noncommutative geometry, representation theory, tropical geometry, etc. In particular, introductory courses in these areas will be given.

The lecture courses will include:

• Isolated Gorenstein Singularities (R.-O.Buchweitz, University of Toronto)
• Cohen-Macaulay modules over surface singularities (I.Burban, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitaet Bonn)
• Derived categories and tilting with applications to singularities (I.Drozd, Institute of Mathematics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine)
• Lie algebras and singularity theory (A.Elashvili, Mathematical Institute of Georgian Academy of Science)
• Invariants and deformations of hypersurface singularities (G.-M.Greuel, Universitaet Kaiserslautern)
• Poincaré series of filtrations, integrals with respect to the Euler characteristic, and monodromy zeta-functions (S.Gusein-Zade, Moscow State University)
• Vanishing cycles of polynomial functions (M.Tibar, Universite de Lille 1, and D.Siersma, Universiteit Utrecht)
• SINGULAR in the theory of singularities (O.Drozd-Koroleva, Kiev Taras Shevchenko University)

There will also be talks by the participants.

For more information, including a registration form, see the web site for the Summer School.

Eighth Annual Meeting
Lakehead University
Thunder Bay, ON
January 21 – 23, 2011

Invited Speakers

• Nantel Bergeron (York University, Toronto)


• François Bergeron (UQAM, Montreal)


• Victor Reiner (University of Minnesota)


• Jessica Sidman (Mt. Holyoke)


• Jerzy Weyman (Northeastern University)

Organizers

• Sara Faridi (Dalhousie)


• Tony Geramita (Queen’s and Genoa)


• Adam Van Tuyl (Lakehead)

Contributed talks are very welcome. Please contact Sara Faridi with titles and abstracts.

Funding available especially for students and postdocs. Please contact Sara Faridi to apply.

Website: http://flash.lakeheadu.ca/~avantuyl/research/CombAlgMeetsAlgComb_Lakehead_2011.html

• Special Session on Local Commutative Algebra organized by Paul Roberts, Anurag Singh, and Sandra Spiroff. See the session website for more information.
• Special Session on Commutative Algebra organized by Christine Berkesch, Bhargav Bhatt, Jason McCullough, and Javid Validashti. This session is associated with the Mathematical Research Communities. The official session website is http://www.ams.org/meetings/national/jmm/2125_program_ss3.html#title, and the organizers are maintaining their own site at
  http://www.math.ucr.edu/~jmccullo/jmm/.

For more information, please see the official CMS page or the organizer’s page for the Session.

For more information, see the conference website.

• Special Session on Commutative Algebra and Its Interactions with Algebraic Geometry.
  


• Special Session on Hilbert Functions in Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Combinatorics.
  

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.