A workshop on Advances in Algebra and Geometry will be held at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute April 28 to May 05, 2007. The workshop is being organized by Joe Harris, Craig Huneke, Hugo Rossi, Frank-Olaf Schreyer, and Bernd Sturmfels.

From the workshop web page:

The goal of the workshop is to focus on some long term developments in Algebra, Geometry and Computation. It will bring together individuals working in these different areas who by-and-large have not had the opportunity to interact with one another, much less collaborate with each other. Despite this lack of opportunity, there is a great deal of common mathematics which can be shared by this group. Specifically, the main topics of the workshop will be:

1. Enumerative and birational geometry of the moduli space of curves
2. Homological algebra
3. Symbolic computation
4. Commutative algebra
5. Postulation, equations, and syzygies
6. Special varieties

It is not a coincidence that these topics represent areas in which MSRI's Director, David Eisenbud, has made seminal research contributions. The timing of the workshop also coincides with David's 60th birthday and occurs as he is preparing to step down as Director at the end of this academic year. Thus this workshop will also afford the opportunity to honor David's many and varied lifetime contributions to the vitality of the mathematical sciences.

Invited speakers include:
Luchezar Avramov*, David Buchsbaum*, Persi Diaconis, Mark Green*, Juergen Herzog, Melvin Hochster, Sheldon Katz, Janos Kollar, Gennady Lyubeznik*, Mircea Mustata*, Irena Peeva*, Sorin Popescu*, Claudio Procesi, Michael Singer*, Greg Smith*, Karen Smith, Mike Stillman*, Bernd Ulrich*.
(* indicates confirmed [as of 23 Jan 07])

For more information, see the workshop web page.