In honor of the 60th birthday of Winfried Bruns there will be a conference, June 02 - 03, 2006 at the University of Osnabrück. The conference will focus on his contributions to Commutative Algebra and his influence to this field. Invited speakers are:

Luchezar L. Avramov (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
Margherita Barile (Università degli Studi di Bari)
Ragnar-Olaf Buchweitz (University of Toronto)
Marc Chardin (C.N.R.S. & Université Pierre et Marie Curie)
Aldo Conca (Università di Genova)
Hubert Flenner (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
Hans-Bjørn Foxby (Københavns Universitet)
Joseph Gubeladze (San Francisco State University)
Peter Schenzel (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg)
Ngô Viêt Trung (Institute of Mathematics, Hanoi)

The conference is being organized by Jürgen Herzog and Tim Römer. For more information see the conference web page.