The Istituto Nazionale di Alta Matematica (INdAM) will sponsor a Workshop on Commutative Rings, June 4-10, 2006, in Cortona, Italy. The aim of the Workshop is to bring together researchers in the area of commutative ring theory.

The main emphasis will be on factorization and divisibility properties, decomposition of ideals, class groups; multiplicative ideal and module systems, star and semistar operations, Gabriel-Popescu localizing systems; Prüfer domains and their generalizations; Krull and Mori domains; integer valued polynomials; chain conditions and prime spectra; analytically irreducible one-dimensional rings and their value semigroups; one-dimensional Noetherian rings and algebroid curves.

Young researchers interested in these areas are welcome.

The program for the mornings consists in a series of 45-minute lectures and a few 30-minute invited plenary talks. The afternoons will be devoted to 20-minute talks, some of them in two parallel sessions.

Scientific Committee:

• Valentina Barucci (Università degli Studi La Sapienza ),
• Paul-Jean Cahen (Université Paul Cézanne, Aix-Marseille III),
• Marco Fontana (Università degli Studi Roma Tre ),
• Stefania Gabelli (Università degli Studi Roma Tre ),
• Evan G. Houston (University of North-Carolina, Charlotte).

Organizing Committee:

• Florida Girolami (Università degli Studi Roma Tre ),
• Giampaolo Picozza (Università degli Studi Roma Tre ),
• Francesca Tartarone (Università degli Studi Roma Tre )

For more infomation, see the web page for the Workshop, or contact the organizers directly at cortona2006[AT]mat.uniroma3.it .