• David Eisenbud (University of California, Berkeley, USA) Regularity of rings and the Gruson-Lazarsfeld-Peskine theorem
• Hal Schenck (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne, USA) Combinatorics and syzygies
• Frank-Olaf Schreyer (Universität des Saarlandes, Germany) Boij-Söderberg theory and asymptotic syzygies of algebraic varieties

The website http://syzygies.math.fu-berlin.de provides detailed information and a form for registration.

June 1–4: Workshop in Combinatorial Algebra & Mini Course in Commutative Algebra

Commutative Algebra Speakers:
Giulio Caviglia (Purdue) and Juergen Herzog (Essen)

Organized by: Atlantic Algebra Center

Here is a link to the workshop website.

Funding is available for graduate students and postdocs. Please apply by April 1st by writing to Sara Faridi (faridi@mathstat.dal.ca) and ask your supervisor to send a reference letter.

Contributed talks are welcome for the workshop.

June 4 –7: Summer Meeting of the Canadian Mathematical Society

There will be a plenary lecture by Irena Peeva (Cornell).

There will also be a Special Session on “Commutative Algebra and Combinatorics” organized by Jennifer Biermann, Sara Faridi, Andrew Hoefel, Adam Van Tuyl

Here is a link to the special session website.

Student funding will be available from the CMS, details will appear on the CMS website. If you would like to give a talk at the special session please contact one of the organizers.

Please send inquiries to faridi@mathstat.dal.ca.

First announcement and call for papers:

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MEGA 2013

Effective Methods in Algebraic Geometry

Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Germany,
June 3-7, 2013

Further information: http://math.uni-frankfurt.de/mega2013/

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MEGA is the acronym for Effective Methods in Algebraic Geometry (and its equivalent in Italian, French, Spanish, German, Russian, etc.). This series of biennial international conferences, with the tradition dating back to 1990, is devoted to computational and application aspects of Algebraic Geometry and related topics.

The conference will comprise invited talks, regular talks (based on a competitive submission process), software presentations, as well as a poster session.

Invited speakers:

• Lucia Caporaso (University Roma Tre)
• Felipe Cucker (City University of Hong Kong)
• Bas Edixhoven (University of Leiden)
• Benjamin Nill (Case Western Reserve University)
• Giorgio Ottaviani (University of Firenze)
• Frank-Olaf Schreyer (University of Saarbrücken)
• Markus Schweighofer (University of Konstanz)
• Seth Sullivant (North Carolina State University)
• Rekha Thomas (University of Washington)

Important dates:

Deadline for submissions of abstracts: December 1, 2012
Notification of acceptance decision: February 20, 2013

Deadline for submissions of software presentations: March 1, 2013
Notification of acceptance decision: March 31, 2013

Submissions: Submissions should contain recent original research relevant to effective methods in algebraic geometry (in a broad sense), including their foundations, analysis, complexity, computational aspects, practical issues and applications.

There are two possible modes of submission:
- Extended abstracts of at least four pages (not counting bibliography) that should contain full results, an outline of the proofs and all of the main ideas.
- Full papers with complete proofs.

The introduction should clearly state the contributions and achievements of the paper. It will be used to organize the refereeing, and should give sufficient details to understand the significance of the contribution and assign the paper to a proper referee.

Papers already submitted elsewhere, but not in press yet, might be acceptable but this fact has to be stated and a motivation given in the abstract. The acceptance of an already submitted paper depends on the special significance and on the research perspectives opened by the paper.

Papers are to be submitted online through the Easy Chair interface, which is available at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mega2013

Acceptance of a submitted contribution means acceptance for oral presentation only. It is planned that there will be a special issue of a journal to which authors of accepted original papers will be invited to submit the full version by the time of the conference. Only original research contributions will be considered for publication in the journal special issue.

There will also be a call for software presentations as well as a call for posters.

Executive committee: Alin Bostan (INRIA Paris-Rocquencourt), Wolfram Decker (U of Kaiserslautern), Alicia Dickenstein (U of Buenos Aires), Jan Draisma (TU Eindhoven), Christian Haase (Goethe University Frankfurt), Bernard Mourrain (INRIA Sophia Antipolis, chair), Tomas Recio (U Cantabria, Santander), Thorsten Theobald (Goethe University Frankfurt)

Local committee: Maria Angelica Cueto (Columbia University and Frankfurt) Christian Haase (Frankfurt, vice-chair), Jan Hofmann (Frankfurt), Michael Joswig (TU Darmstadt), Andreas Paffenholz (TU Darmstadt), Thorsten Theobald (Frankfurt, chair), Christian Trabandt (Frankfurt), Annette Werner (Frankfurt), Timo de Wolff (Frankfurt)

there will be two intensive courses with CoCoA tutorials:

• Lorenzo Robbiano: Sets of Points and Mathematical Models (tutor: Maria-Laura Torrente)
• Winfried Bruns: Algorithms for toric geometry (tutor: TBA)

The tutors and assistants will be able to provide help for participants in the use of the computer algebra system CoCoA. Students who own laptops are encouraged to bring them for use during the tutorials.

Those wishing to participate in the School should submit a letter of application to either Lorenzo Robbiano or Anna M. Bigatti by 31 March 2013. For more information see the School web page.

http://monica.unirioja.es/web_2EACA/index.html

FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT

The Second EACA International School on Computer Algebra and its Applications will take place at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Valladolid (Spain) on June 24th-28th, 2013.
It is an activity of the Spanish network Red-EACA, Red Temática de Cálculo Simbólico, Álgebra Computacional y Aplicaciones.

The speakers and topics of the three courses are:
- Aldo Conca (Università degli Studi di Genova, Italy): Bounds on Syzygies.
- Irena Swanson (Reed College, USA): Primary decomposition and algorithms. Applications to algebraic statistics.
- Volkmar Welker (Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany): Combinatorics and Algebra of geometric subdivision operations on simplicial complexes

There will be grants covering local expenses for young researchers. Candidates will be selected under the supervision of the School’s Scientific Committee. Young participants will also have the opportunity to give a short contributed talk on their on-going work. The School also welcomes experienced researchers interested in these topics.

Important dates:
- Abstract submission and grant application deadline: April 8th, 2013
- Notification of acceptance on contributions and grants: April 19th, 2013.
- Early registration until April 30st, 2013.

Florian Enescu and Cristodor Ionescu will organize a Special Session on Commutative Algebra at this meeting.

There will be lectures of internationally renowned speakers and former members of the post graduate programme to discuss recent results in the area of algebra, combinatorics and topology.

Invited Speakers:

• Morten Brun (University of Bergen)
• Graham Denham (University of Western Ontario)
• Neil Epstein (George Mason University)
• David Gepner (University of Regensburg)
• Jürgen Herzog (University of Duisburg-Essen)
• Thomas Kahle (TU München)
• Uwe Nagel (University of Kentucky)
• Paul Arne Østvær (University of Oslo)
• Anurag Singh (University of Utah)
• Greg Smith (Queen’s University Kingston)
• Markus Szymik (University of Copenhagen)
• Matteo Vabaro (Università di Genova)

For more information see the homepage for the conference.

The goal of this conference is to outline various aspects of the strong interplay between Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry. The conference will be of relatively small size, bringing experts, young researchers, recent PhD’s and graduate students in these research areas together to generate research discussion and to foster research collaboration between its participants.

Speakers: The following people have agreed to speak at our conference.

Susan Cooper, Central Michigan University.
Chris Francisco, Oklahoma State University.
Juan Migliore, Notre Dame University.
Uwe Nagel, University of Kentucky.
Alexandra Seceleanu, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Zach Teitler, Boise State University.
Thanh Vu, University of California at Berkeley.
Adam Van Tuyl, Lakehead University.

For more information please see http://dauns.math.tulane.edu/~tai/CAAG2013.html

or contact the organizers:

Tai Ha (tha@tulane.edu)
Brian Harbourne (bharbourne1@math.unl.edu)
Adam Van Tuyl (avantuyl@lakeheadu.ca)