April 2008 – Welcome to commalg.org!

GSU-USC Commutative Algebra Seminar, spring 08 edition

The GSU-USC Commutative Algebra Seminar, April 25-27 2008, Atlanta.
The seminar represents a collaborative effort of commutative algebraists at Georgia State University and University of South Carolina to increase exposure of their research area in the South-East through periodic meetings. The organizers for this meeting in Atlanta are Florian Enescu and Yongwei Yao. The speakers are:

Ian M. Aberbach
Joe Brennan
Tai Ha
Andrew Kustin
Liana Sega
Adela Vraciu
Diana White

More information can be found on the web page of the seminar.

Pictures from the Hartshorne conference

Juan Migliore has posted some pictures from the recent Hartshorne conference. Go see!

Algebraic Geometry and Commutative Algebra: In honor of Robin Hartshorne, at Chicago

The University of Illinois at Chicago will host a conference in Algebraic Geometry and Commutative Algebra on April 11-13, 2008, to celebrate Robin Hartshorne’s 70th birthday. The speakers include:

Marta Casanellas (Barcelona)
David Gieseker (U.C.L.A.)
Mark Gross (San Diego)
Robin Hartshorne (U.C. Berkeley)
Melvin Hochster (Michigan)
Craig Huneke (Kansas)
Rob Lazarsfeld (Michigan)
Juan Migliore (Notre Dame)
David Mumford (Brown)
Ignacio Sols (Madrid)

For more information, including the organizing committee and information about housing and transportation, see the conference web page.

Bloomington 2008

The 2008 Spring Central Section Meeting of the AMS will be held April 5-6, 2008 at Indiana University, Bloomington IN. Juan Migliore and Uwe Nagel are organizing a Special Session on “Combinatorial and Geometric Aspects of Commutative Algebra”. For more information, see the AMS web page for the meeting.