Month: December 2006

AIM Integral Closure, Multiplier Ideals and Cores

Integral Closure, Multiplier Ideals and Cores
December 17 to December 21, 2006
AIM Research Conference Center, Palo Alto, CA
Organizers:
Alberto Corso, Claudia Polini, and Bernd Ulrich
Workshop topics:
This workshop, sponsored by AIM and the NSF, will be devoted to questions related to the notion of integral closure of ideals. Specific aspects of the workshop focus are: computation of the integral closure and its complexity; multiplicities and equisingularity theory; cores of ideals and Briancon-Skoda type theorems; multiplier ideals and test ideals; and multiplier ideals and jet schemes.
Application deadline:
September 1, 2006
For more information:
http://aimath.org/ARCC/workshops/integralclosure.html

"Rings and Categories of Modules", in honor of Kent Fuller

The Departamento de Matemáticas, Universidad de Murcia, and the Dipartimento di Matematica Pura ed Applicata, Università di Padova, will sponsor a conference, “Rings and Categories of Modules”, in honor of Kent Fuller, December 14-16, 2006. The conference will take place at Bressanone (Italy). The scientific program will include six main lectures, by (according to the website) Walter Burgess (Ottawa), Robert Colby (Cedar Rapids), Luis Gomez Pardo (Santiago de Compostela), Birge Huisgen-Zimmermann (Santa Barbara), Idun Reiten (Trondheim), and Dan Zacharia (Syracuse).
For more information, see the conference website.

KRAW photos and new algebra journal

Sean Sather-Wagstaff has posted some photos from the recent Kent Regional Algebra Weekend. Thanks, Sean!
We learned from Ragnar-Olaf Buchweitz of the existence of a new journal of interest to commutative algebraists: Algebra & Number Theory. According to the web page, “Algebra & Number Theory publishes high-quality original research articles in algebra and number theory, interpreted broadly, for example including algebraic and arithmetic geometry. […] The policies of Algebra & Number Theory are set by the editorial board – a group of working mathematicians – rather than by a profit-oriented company, so they will remain friendly to mathematicians’ interests.” We at commalg.org applaud this effort!

Purdue 2006

UIC-Purdue Workshop on Algebraic Geometry and Commutative Algebra This meeting will take place at Purdue University on December 2nd and 3rd.
Confirmed speakers are:

  • – Sankar Dutta, U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • – Anatoly Libgober, U. of Illinois at Chicago
  • – Gennady Lyubeznik, U. of Minnesota
  • – Andrei Mustata, U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • – Mihnea Popa, U. of Chicago
  • – Jaroslaw Wlodarczyk, Purdue U.

For more information please contact Lawrence Ein or Bernd Ulrich, or see the conference web page.