Month: June 2003

Lisbon, Portugal (LCCA)

The Lisbon Conference on Commutative Algebra will be held June 23-27, 2003 in Lisbon, Portugal.
The conference will focus on Commutative Algebra with some emphasis in homological methods. There will be 14 talks of 50 minutes each given by some of the most outstanding researchers in the field, and up to 26 talks of 35 minutes each (in parallel sessions).
This meeting will take place at Instituto Superior Técnico, Avenida Rovisco Pais, 1096-001 Lisboa, Portugal, immediately after the First Joint Meeting of the American Mathematical Society and the Real Sociedad Matemática Española (Sevilla, Spain, June 18-21 2003, and where there will be several special sessions in areas related to Commutative Algebra).
For more information, please see the conference website at www.math.ist.utl.pt/~mike/conf/.

Sevilla, Spain

The first Joint Meeting of the American Mathematical Society and the Real Sociedad Matemática Española will take place in Sevilla, Spain on June 18-21, 2003. See the conference website (also available en español) for general information about the conference.
There will be (at least) three Special Sessions of possible interest to commutative algebraists:

  • Special Session on Commutative Algebra: Geometric, Homological, Combinatorial and Computational Aspects, organized by Alberto Corso (University of Kentucky), Philippe Gimenez (Universidad de Valladolid), and Santiago Zarzuela (Universitat de Barcelona).
  • Special Session on Differential Structures and Homological Methods in Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry, organized by Gennady Lyubeznik (University of Minnesota) and Luis Narvaez-Macarro (Universidad de Sevilla).
  • Special Session on Ring Theory and Related Topics, organized by Jose Gomez-Torrecillas (University of Granada), Pedro Antonio Guil Asensio (University of Murcia), Sergio R. Lopez-Permouth (Ohio University), and Blas Torrecillas (University of Almeria).

Update: Alberto Corso has posted a website for the Special Session on Commutative Algebra: Geometric, Homological, Combinatorial and Computational Aspects. It includes a tentative list of speakers.

CoCoA VIII (Cádiz, Spain)

The eighth edition of the CoCoA (COmputational COmmutative Algebra) Conference, along with the 3rd edition of the International School on Computer Algebra, will take place at the Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales, a Faculty of the Universidad de Cádiz, in Cádiz, Spain, the week beginning Sunday, June 1, 2003.
The School will begin on Monday June 2 and end on Thursday morning, June 5. The COCOA Conference will begin on Thursday afternoon and finish at midday on Saturday, June 7.
There will be two main courses (Gregor Kemper: Computational Invariant Theory; Martin Kreuzer: Computing in Multigraded Structures) and one minicourse (Jose María Ucha: Computational Aspects of D-Modules).
For more information, including information about the organizers and support, please see the conference website.
Update 12 Feb: We now have links to practical information about hotels, tourism etc., as well as travel information for getting to and from Cádiz.
Also, we have a list of confirmed speakers and subjects:

  • DeLoera, Jesus – Toric Rational Functions and their applications in Combinatorics, Statistics and Optimization
  • Kemper, Gregor – Computer Algebra and Invariants
  • Kreuzer, Martin – Multigraded Structures in Polynomial Rings
  • Parillo, Pablo – Real Algebra and Convex Optimization
  • Stillman, Mike – The Algebraic Geometry of Bayesian Networks
  • Thomas, Rekha – Simplicial Complexes, Generic Initial Ideals and Combinatorics
  • Pfister, Gerhardt – Computer Algebra and Group Theory

Abstracts should be available soon, and information about applying for support will soon be on the conference website.
Update 5 May: The second announcement for COCOA VIII is posted on the CoCoA web page. Among other things, it mentions that there will be a poster session and a demo session at the conference.
Update 20 Sept.There are many photos of the conference (by John Abbott) posted.