There will be two Special Sessions of interest to commutative algebraists at the AMS Western Sectional Meeting in San Francisco, May 3-4 2003. Ray Heitmann and Irena Swanson will organize a Special Session in Commutative Algebra, and Serkan Hosten and Ezra Miller will organize a Special Session in Combinatorial Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry.

Also, Ray Heitmann will give an invited address titled, "The direct summand conjecture in dimension three".

See the AMS page for the conference for more information.