The CIMPA school and international conference on commutative algebra will be held at IIT-Bombay, India, Jan 2-12, 2008. The aim of the school is to introduce mathematicians from developing countries to some fundamental techniques and recent developments in Commutative Algebra and to promote collaboration between mathematicians of different developing and developed countries.

The first week (Jan 2-6) will be a school with 4 instructional courses on the following topics:
1. Cohen-Macaulayness in the associated graded rings of certain m-primary ideals in a Noetherian local ring (S. Goto)
2. Using triangulated categories in commutative algebra (S. Iyengar)
3. Lectures in Determinantal ideals (R. M. Miró-Roig)
4. Vertex cover Algebras (N. V. Trung)

The second week (Jan 8-12) is devoted to an international conference. Besides invited lectures on recent developments in Commutative Algebra, there will be opportunities for mathematicians from developing countries to present their research works.

Organizing committee: L. L. Avramov, M. Chardin, M. E. Rossi, J. K. Verma, and T. J. Puthenpurakal

For more information, consult the conference website.