Month: June 2012

The Joint International Meeting between the American Mathematical Society and the Romanian Mathematical Society will take place in Alba-Iulia, June 27-30, 2013.
Florian Enescu and Cristodor Ionescu will organize a Special Session on Commutative Algebra at this meeting.

The Institute for Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) will hold a 2012 PI Summer Graduate Program on “Algebraic Geometry for Applications” at Georgia Tech, June 18 – July 6, 2012. The program is currently:
Organizers and Main Lecturers

• Greg Blekherman School of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Anton Leykin School of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Josephine Yu School of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology

Guest Lecturers

• Alicia Dickenstein University of Buenos Aires
• Diane Maclagan University of Warwick
• Pablo Parrilo Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Mike Stillman Cornell University
• Bernd Sturmfels UC Berkeley
• Rekha Thomas University of Washington
• Charles Wampler General Motors

For more information, see the IMA web page for the Summer School, or the Georgia Tech page for the Summer School.

The “3rd Bluegrass Algebra Conference,” organized by Alberto Corso, Claudia Polini, Bernd Ulrich and Javid Validashti, will be held at the University of Kentucky (Lexington) during the period June 14-16, 2012.
This conference continues a well established tradition of Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry meetings in the Midwest. Young mathematicians are especially encouraged to attend. There is a limited amount of support provided by the National Science Foundation through the Special Algebra Meetings in the Midwest grant (NSF DMS-0753127). The deadline for being considered for financial support is June 1, 2012.
For more information, please visit the website: http://www.ms.uky.edu/~corso/BAC3_2012

There will be a school and conference on hyperplane arrangements and related topics, June 11-15 in Pau (France), mostly addressed to Ph.D. students and young researchers but also of interest for experienced researchers.

Main lectures

E. Artal Bartolo (University of Zaragoza) “Topology of arrangements and position of singularities”
L. Paris (Universite de Bourgogne) “Hyperplane arrangements and Artin groups”
G. Denham (University of Western Ontario) “Commutative algebra and algebraic geometry of hyperplane arrangements”
A. Suciu (University of Northeastern) “Topology of the Milnor fibration of hyperplane arrangements”
M. Yoshinaga (University of Kyoto) “Freeness of hyperplane arrangements and divisors”

Invited speakers

N. Budur (University of Notre Dame)
F. Callegaro (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa)
A. Dimca (Universite de Nice – Sophia Antipolis) – to be confirmed
M. Granger (Universite d’Angers) – to be confirmed
S. Yuzvinsky (University of Oregon)

Scientific committee

A. Libgober (University of Illinois at Chicago)
S. Papadima (IMAR Bucharest)
M. Salvetti (Universita di Pisa)

Organizers

D. Faenzi (Pau)
V. Florens (Pau)
D. Matei (IMAR Bucharest)
J. Vallès (Pau)

Web page

lma.univ-pau.fr/equipes/algebre-geometrie/arrangements/

Deadlines

Registration is required by April 15. Applications for funding and for contributed talks will be considered until March 15th. Check out the registration page on our the school’s web page.

Aims of the school

The school’s lectures will be mainly aimed at Ph. D. students and young researchers, and should be of interest for all researchers in this area of mathematics, as it should cover many of the combinatorial, topological, algebraic and geometric aspects of the topic. Participants are encouraged to propose contributed talks of 30 minutes.

Sponsors

The school is financed by the ANR projects ANR Interlow, ANR GeoLMI, by the department of mathematics LMA in Pau, by the Institut Pluridisciplinaire de Recherche Appliquee, by GDR Geometrie Algebrique et Geometrie Complexe, GDR Tresses, GDR Singularites, Conseil de la Recherche de l’Universite de Pau, Conseil Regional d’Aquitaine, Communaute d’agglomeraiton de Pau, Conseil General 64.
The school will take place at Pau’s university Campus. Lectures should begin on Monday 11 in the morning, and end on Friday the 15th before lunch.
For more information, see the web page for the school.

The 2012 INdAM-day will take place on June 7 at the Department of Mathematics of the University of Genova. It is a one-day event organized by INdAM every year in a different place. The program for this year includes “Commutative algebra and representations of finite groups” by Srikanth Iyengar.
There will also be a short meeting on June 8 and 9 on commutative algebra and related topics, organized by Aldo Conca, Emanuela De Negri, and Giuseppe Valla. The current speaker list is:

• Bruno Benedetti (Stockholm) – All flag Cohen-Macaulay complexes are Hirsch
• Giulio Caviglia (Purdue) – Embeddings of Hilbert functions and upper bounds on Betti numbers
• Marc Chardin (Paris) – Powers of ideals: regularity, Betti numbers and cohomology
• Alexandru Constantinescu (Basel) – On h-vectors of matroids
• Alexander Engström (Helsinki) – TBA
• Gunnar Fløystad (Bergen) – TBA
• Philippe Gimenez (Valladolid) – TBA
• Elisa Gorla (Basel) – Initial ideals and linkage
• Diane Maclagan (Warwick) – TBA
• Srikanth Iyengar (Lincoln) – TBA
• Tim Römer (Osnabrueck) – Criteria for componentwise linearity
• Matteo Varbaro (Genova) – Cohomological dimension of open subsets of the projective space
• Volkmar Welker (Marburg) – Homological properties of powers of ideals

For more information, see the web page for the conference.
Aldo Conca, Emanuela De Negri, Tito Valla.

The conference “Commutative Rings and their Modules, 2012 with a special session dedicated to Marco Fontana on occasion of his 65th birthday” will take place in Brixen/Bressanone, Italy, next June 4-8, 2012.
The main topics of the conference are:

• valuation and Prüfer domains and their generalizations;
• factorization and divisibility properties, decomposition of ideals, class groups;
• multiplicative ideal and module systems, star and semistar operations, Gabriel-Popescu localizing systems;
• Krull and Mori domains;
• integer valued polynomials;
• chain conditions and prime spectra;
• Zariski-Riemann spaces of valuation rings;
• semigroup rings, analytically irreducible one-dimensional rings and their value semigroups;
• divisibility and heights in modules over integral domains;
• algebraic entropies of endomorphisms of modules over commutative rings;
• length functions for categories of modules over commutative rings.

A first list of speakers includes

• V. Barucci, Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy
• P.-J. Cahen, Université Paul Cézanne, Aix-Marseille III, France
• J.-L. Chabert, Université de Picardie, Amiens, France
• D. Dikranjan, Università di Udine, Italy
• S. Glaz, University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA
• F. Halter-Koch, Karl-Franzens Universität Graz, Austria
• E.G. Houston, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA
• S.-E. Kabbaj, KFUPM, Dhahran, SA
• B.G. Kang, POSTECH, Korea
• T.G. Lucas, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA
• B. Olberding, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, USA
• I. Papick, University of Nebraska and University of Missouri-Columbia, USA
• L. Salce, Università di Padova, Italy
• I. Swanson, Reed College, Oregon, USA

For more information, see the web-page for the conference.

Topic
char-p & p-adic geometry
Organizing committee
Manuel Blickle, Hélène Esnault, Vasudevan Srinivas, Karen Smith
Aim
The goal of this conference is to bring together researchers working in characteristic p and p-adic geometry to report on recent advances in the field and to stimulate the fruitful interaction between arithmetic and geometric aspects.
Dates
June 4-8, 2012.
Website
https://sites.google.com/site/conferencepgeom/
Lecture Series
The conference will be accompanied by 3 lecture series of about 3 talks each:
Andre Chatzistamatiou & Kay Rülling: Rational and Witt rational singularities.
Gerd Faltings: p-adic Simpson correspondence.
Dmitry Kaledin: tba
Invited Speakers
Bhargav Bhatt (Univ. of Michigan)
Holger Brenner (Univ. Osnabrück)
Kirti Joshi (Univ. of Arizona)
Adrian Langer (Warshaw University)
Christian Liedtke (Univ. Düsseldorf)
Vikram Mehta (Tata Inst.)
Mircea Mustaţă (Univ. of Michigan)
Sam Payne (Yale/MPIM)
Damian Roessler (Univ. Toulouse)
Stefan Schröer (Univ. Düsseldorf)
Karl Schwede (Penn State)
Shunsuke Takagi (Kyushu University)
Kevin Tucker (Princeton)
Vadim Vologodsky (Univ. of Oregon)
Torsten Wedhorn (Univ. of Paderborn)
Wildbert van der Kallen (Univ. Utrecht)

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First announcement and call for papers:
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MEGA 2013
Effective Methods in Algebraic Geometry
Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Germany,
June 3-7, 2013
Further information: http://math.uni-frankfurt.de/mega2013/
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MEGA is the acronym for Effective Methods in Algebraic Geometry (and its equivalent in Italian, French, Spanish, German, Russian, etc.). This series of biennial international conferences, with the tradition dating back to 1990, is devoted to computational and application aspects of Algebraic Geometry and related topics.
The conference will comprise invited talks, regular talks (based on a competitive submission process), software presentations, as well as a poster session.
Invited speakers:

• Lucia Caporaso (University Roma Tre)
• Felipe Cucker (City University of Hong Kong)
• Bas Edixhoven (University of Leiden)
• Benjamin Nill (Case Western Reserve University)
• Giorgio Ottaviani (University of Firenze)
• Frank-Olaf Schreyer (University of Saarbrücken)
• Markus Schweighofer (University of Konstanz)
• Seth Sullivant (North Carolina State University)
• Rekha Thomas (University of Washington)

Important dates:
Deadline for submissions of abstracts: December 1, 2012
Notification of acceptance decision: February 20, 2013
Deadline for submissions of software presentations: March 1, 2013
Notification of acceptance decision: March 31, 2013
Submissions: Submissions should contain recent original research relevant to effective methods in algebraic geometry (in a broad sense), including their foundations, analysis, complexity, computational aspects, practical issues and applications.
There are two possible modes of submission:
– Extended abstracts of at least four pages (not counting bibliography) that should contain full results, an outline of the proofs and all of the main ideas.
– Full papers with complete proofs.
The introduction should clearly state the contributions and achievements of the paper. It will be used to organize the refereeing, and should give sufficient details to understand the significance of the contribution and assign the paper to a proper referee.
Papers already submitted elsewhere, but not in press yet, might be acceptable but this fact has to be stated and a motivation given in the abstract. The acceptance of an already submitted paper depends on the special significance and on the research perspectives opened by the paper.
Papers are to be submitted online through the Easy Chair interface, which is available at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mega2013
Acceptance of a submitted contribution means acceptance for oral presentation only. It is planned that there will be a special issue of a journal to which authors of accepted original papers will be invited to submit the full version by the time of the conference. Only original research contributions will be considered for publication in the journal special issue.
There will also be a call for software presentations as well as a call for posters.
Executive committee: Alin Bostan (INRIA Paris-Rocquencourt), Wolfram Decker (U of Kaiserslautern), Alicia Dickenstein (U of Buenos Aires), Jan Draisma (TU Eindhoven), Christian Haase (Goethe University Frankfurt), Bernard Mourrain (INRIA Sophia Antipolis, chair), Tomas Recio (U Cantabria, Santander), Thorsten Theobald (Goethe University Frankfurt)
Local committee: Maria Angelica Cueto (Columbia University and Frankfurt) Christian Haase (Frankfurt, vice-chair), Jan Hofmann (Frankfurt), Michael Joswig (TU Darmstadt), Andreas Paffenholz (TU Darmstadt), Thorsten Theobald (Frankfurt, chair), Christian Trabandt (Frankfurt), Annette Werner (Frankfurt), Timo de Wolff (Frankfurt)

The Summer Meeting of the Canadian Mathematical Society will be held at the University of Regina, June 2-4, 2012 (Saturday-Monday). This meeting will include a Special Session on Interactions Between Algebraic Geometry and Commutative Algebra, co-organized by Susan Cooper and Sean Sather-Wagstaff. For more information on the session, see the website maintained by the organizers.