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that might be undertaken are visible at http://www.math.uiuc.edu/Macaulay2/dev/projects/ — although this page is rather out of date at this point and we are looking for participants who might have new packages they are interested in.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

These meetings are intended to be a meeting opportunity for researchers in Computer Algebra and Symbolic Computation or in its Applications. The Congress will held at the Facultad de Matemáticas of the Universidad de Santiago de Compostela.

The program will include five plenary talks proposed by the scientific committee:

• Carlos Beltrán, Universidad de Cantabria, España
• Winfried Bruns, Universität Osnabrück, Alemania
• Elisa Gorla, Universität Basel, Suiza
• Evelyne Hubert, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, Francia
• Antonio Montes, Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña, España

Organizers:

• Laura Castro Souto, Universidad de A Coruña, España
• José Luis Freire Nistal, Universidad de A Coruña, España
• Felipe Gago Couso, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, España
• Avelino Insua Hermo, Universidad de Vigo, España
• Manuel Ladra, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, España
• Gilberto Pérez Vega, Universidad de A Coruña, España

Please see the EACA 2010 web page for more information.

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.

MRCs are designed “to develop and sustain long-lasting cohorts for collaborative research projects in many areas of mathematics. Women and underrepresented minorities are especially encouraged to participate. The AMS will provide a structured program to engage and guide all participants as they start their careers.”

The organizers for this MRC are

• David Eisenbud (University of California, Berkeley)
• Craig Huneke (University of Kansas)
• Mircea Mustaţă (University of Michigan)
• Claudia Polini (University of Notre Dame)

For more information, including application procedures, see the AMS web page for the MRC.

For more information as it appears, please see the web page for the School.

The organizers are Aldo Conca (Genova), Elisabetta Strickland (Roma “Tor Vergata”), and Giuseppe Valla (Genova). Senior speakers include:

• Velleda Baldoni (Roma “Tor Vergata”)
• Francesco Brenti (Roma “Tor Vergata”)
• Pietro Corvaja (Udine)
• Corrado De Concini (Roma “La Sapienza” )
• Lino Di Martino (Milano Bicocca)
• Antonio Giambruno (Palermo)
• Alberto Facchini (Padova)
• Marco Fontana (Roma TRE)
• Andrea Lucchini (Padova)
• Claudia Menini (Ferrara)
• Claudio Procesi (Roma “La Sapienza”)
• Carlo Scoppola (L’Aquila)

For more information, please see the INdAM web page.

The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers in the area of commutative ring theory, with a certain emphasis on young people. The main themes of the conference are:

• factorization and divisibility properties, decomposition of ideals, class groups;
• multiplicative ideal and module systems, star and semistar operations;
• intersections of valuation domains (Prüfer domains and their generalizations);
• analytically irreducible one-dimensional rings and their value semigroups
• integer-valued polynomials.

For more information, including registration information and deadlines, please see the web page for the conference.

The focus is on Frobenius splitting (involving ideas coming from several areas).

The organizers have some funding for graduate students and young researchers. There is a deadline of March 12th for applications for support. For more information, see the conference website.