The Joint AMS-SMM International Meeting in Houston, TX will run May 13-15, 2004. There will be several events of interest to Commutative Algebraists.

• Pedro Luis Del Angel will organize a Special Session on Algebraic Geometry.
• Srikanth Iyengar and Graham Leuschke will organize a Special Session on the Homological Algebra of Commutative Rings
• Rita Zuazua and Gordana G. Todorov will organize a Special Session on Representations of Algebras
• Bernd Sturmfels will give the Erdös Memorial Lecture
• Luchezar Avramov will give a plenary address on "Homomorphisms of commutative rings"

Whew! That should be a great conference. For more information, see the AMS page for the meeting.