The 30th annual Arkansas Spring Lecture Series in the Mathematical Sciences, at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, will be held April 14 - 16, 2005. The topic for this year's Lecture Series is “Recent Developments in Tight Closure.” The principal lecturers are

Mel Hochster (University of Michigan)
Craig Huneke (University of Kansas).

Invited speakers include

Holger Brenner (University of Sheffield)
Nobuo Hara (Tohoku University)
Gennady Lyubeznik (University of Minnesota)
Anurag Singh (Georgia Tech University)
Shunsuke Takagi (Kyushu University).

There will also be a public lecture by Mel Hochster, "Women in Mathematics".

For more information, consult the conference website