Month: April 2013

The Spring Central Section Meeting of the AMS will be held at Iowa State University, April 27-28, 2013 (Saturday-Sunday). There will be at least two special sessions of interest to the commalg community:

• Special Session on Commutative Algebra and its Environs, co-organized by Olgur Celikbas and Greg Piepmeyer, University of Missouri, Columbia. A schedule for this session can be found here.
• Special Session on Commutative Ring Theory, co-organized by Michael Axtell, University of St. Thomas and Joe Stickles, Millikin University

There will be a conference at Northeastern University in honor of the 60th birthday of Andrei Zelevinsky, April 24-28, 2013, called “Algebra, Combinatorics and Representation Theory”.
The speaker list is:

The organizing committee is:

• Jerzy Weyman
• Jonathan Weitsman
• Ben Webster
• Valerio Toledano-Laredo
• Maxim Braverman

For more information, see the web site for the conference.

The University of Nebraska–Lincoln will host the second KUMUNUjr conference this spring. Registration opens January 23 and closes March 15; to be considered for funding or a 20 minute talk, please register by March 1 (with an abstract if you’d like to talk).
Dates: April 20-21
Location: University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Website: http://www.math.unl.edu/~s-acroll1/KUMUNUjr/2013/
Confirmed Speakers (as of January 15, 2013):

• Olgur Celikbas (MU)
• Kosmas Diveris (St. Olaf)
• Jason Hardin (UNL)
• Richard Wicklein (NDSU)

KUMUNUjr provides an opportunity for young mathematicians studying commutative algebra in the Midwest to share their research and expertise with one another. Our discipline is an active one, with connections to algebraic geometry, cluster algebras, combinatorics, homological algebra, representation theory, statistics, and other areas. Furthermore, midwestern commutative algebra research continues to reflect the activity and diversity of the macrocosm of the commutative algebra research community.
More information can be found on the conference in general at last year’s website:
http://www.math.ku.edu/~bstone/KUMUNUjr/2012/
We anticipate being able to provide at least partial funding for travel and lodging since our NSF application was successful (see the award: http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1303248)!
Feel free to contact any of the organizers with questions.
KUMUNUjr planning committee:

• Michael Brown (mbrown15@math.unl.edu)
• Amanda Croll (s-acroll1@math.unl.edu)
• Courtney Gibbons (s-cgibbon5@math.unl.edu)
• Jason Lutz (jlutz3@math.unl.edu)

The Maurice Auslander Distinguished Lectures and International Conference will be held April 18–23, 2013, in Woods Hole, MA. This year’s Distinguished Lectures will be given by Sergey Fomin.
For more information, including instructions on how to register, see the web page for the Conference.

Imperial College (London, UK) will host a workshop on “Characteristic p methods in Algebraic Geometry”, April 2-5 2013. The main lecturers are James McKernan and Karl Schwede, and invited speakers include Nick Shepherd-Barron and Chenyang Xu (to be confirmed).
The participants are expected to be graduate students and young postdocs. The workshop consists of some lectures by the two main lecturers, as well as talks by participants and a poster session.
For more information, including support and travel arrangements, see the workshop web page.