Month: January 2011

Andre Conference, Lausanne

Michel André, renowned commutative algebraist and former EPFL professor, died in a tragic hiking accident in July 2009 at the age of 73. In honor of his memory and of his important contributions to both algebra and topology, a conference will be held 11 – 13 May 2011, at the Bernoulli Centre of the EPFL.
Building upon the foundations laid during the Summer School on the Interactions between Homotopy Theory and Algebra, held at the University of Chicago in 2004, this conference will provide an opportunity for algebraists and topologists working on closely related subjects at the interface between commutative algebra and stable homotopy to meet and learn about each other’s work.
The conference will consist of 14 lectures on recent research in algebra and topology related to the work of Michel André, in particular to André-Quillen cohomology and the cotangent complex.
The following mathematicians have agreed to speak at the conference.
Luchezar Avramov (Nebraska)
Maria Basterra (New Hampshire)
David Blanc (Haifa)
Ragnar Buchweitz (Toronto)
Srishti Chatterji (EPFL)
Paul Goerss (Northwestern)
Jürgen Herzog (Essen)
Cristodor Ionescu (Romanian Academy)
Srikanth Iyengar (Nebraska)
Nick Kuhn (Virginia)
Mike Mandell (Indiana)
Haynes Miller (MIT)
Birgit Richter (Hamburg)
Bernd Ulrich (Purdue)
Further information can be found on the conference website: http://sma.epfl.ch/~hessbell/andre_memorial/index.html.
Registration for the conference should be done on-line at http://cib.epfl.ch/PublicRegistrationFormHess.php?id=787. Participants should register for the conference by April 15 at the latest.
A list of hotels offering reduced rates to conference participants can be found here: http://sma.epfl.ch/~hessbell/andre_memorial/Hotels.pdf.

Thunder Bay, ON: Combinatorial Algebra meets Algebraic Combinatorics VIII

Combinatorial Algebra meets Algebraic Combinatorics
Eighth Annual Meeting
Lakehead University
Thunder Bay, ON
January 21 – 23, 2011
Invited Speakers

  • Nantel Bergeron (York University, Toronto)
  • François Bergeron (UQAM, Montreal)
  • Victor Reiner (University of Minnesota)
  • Jessica Sidman (Mt. Holyoke)
  • Jerzy Weyman (Northeastern University)

Organizers

  • Sara Faridi (Dalhousie)
  • Tony Geramita (Queen’s and Genoa)
  • Adam Van Tuyl (Lakehead)

Contributed talks are very welcome. Please contact Sara Faridi with titles and abstracts.
Funding available especially for students and postdocs. Please contact Sara Faridi to apply.
Website: http://flash.lakeheadu.ca/~avantuyl/research/CombAlgMeetsAlgComb_Lakehead_2011.html

Lincoln, NE: KUMUNU

KUMUNU 2011 will take place April 2 – 3 at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln. A conference web page with information about speakers and a tentative schedule has been set up at http://www.math.unl.edu/~bharbourne1/KUMUNU/. The organizers have applied to NSF for travel and lodging support. Thus, information about possible reimbursements will be provided at a later date.
Registration and Lodging: In order to prepare for KUMUNU the organizers ask that you take a moment to fill out the on-line registration, which will be available soon. The organizers are expecting to request a small registration fee, especially if NSF does not fund our proposal. Lodging information will also be included in the upcoming email.
New This Year: This year there will be a poster session for graduate students! This will take place on the afternoon of April 2. If you would like to present a poster then please indicate so when you register.
Special This Year: KUMUNU 2011 is being held in association with the 2011 Rowlee Lecture, to be given by David Eisenbud, Friday, April 1, 2011 at 4 p.m. For information on the Rowlee Lecture, see http://www.math.unl.edu/events/rowlee/.

New Orleans, LA: JMM

The 2011 Joint Mathematics Meeting will be held in New Orleans, LA, January 6-9, 2011. This meeting will include at least two special sessions of interest to the commalg community: