At the AMS Spring Eastern Sectional Meeting in San Francisco, CA, April 29-30 2006, there will be three Special Sessions of interest to commutative algebraists:

• Bernd Sturmfels (University of California Berkeley) and Alexander Yong (University of Minnesota and Fields Institute) will organize a Special Session on Geometry of Gröbner Bases.
• Benjamin Richert (California Polytechnic State University) and Sean Sather-Wagstaff (California State University, Dominguez Hills) will organize a Special Session on Hilbert Functions and Resolutions. See the organizer's page for this session.
• Joseph Gubeladze (San Francisco State University) and Serkan Hosten (San Francisco State University) will organize a Special Session on Homological and K-theoretical Trends in Algebraic Combinatorics.

For more information, see the AMS web page for the meeting.