Month: January 2014

Combinatorial Algebra meets Algebraic Combinatorics
Eleventh Annual Meeting
Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS
January 24 – 26, 2014
Description
The purpose of this conference is to encourage unique collaborations between combinatorial algebraists and algebraic combinatorics. This is both a regional meeting and an opportunity for researchers with similar mathematical interests but variations of focus to develop and exchange ideas
Dates and Location
The meeting will take place starting in the afternoon of Friday, January 24th, 2014 and end early in the afternoon on Sunday, January 26th, 2014 and will take place at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Invited Speakers
The following people agreed to be our main speakers.

• Drew Armstrong (University of Miami)
• tentative: Ezra Miller (Duke University)
• tentative: Mike Roth (Queens University)
• Mark Skandera (Lehigh University)
• Julianna Tymoczko (Smith College)

In addition to the invited speakers there is opportunity for a limited number of submitted presentations. If you are interested in giving a talk, please email Sara Faridi (faridi@mathstat.dal.ca) with a title and abstract before November 15.
Online registration and application for support
Registration and application for funding for the Combinatorial Algebra meets Algebraic Combinatorics Meeting January 24-26, 2014 will be handled online. There will be a registration fee to offset the hosting costs. Details will be forthcoming.
There are some limited funds for support for travel. The application for travel support has a deadline of November 15, 2013. Please send an email to Mike Zabrocki (zabrocki@mathstat.yorku.ca). Students and post-docs should have a supervisor write an email letter of support to explain need and other sources of funding.
Organizers

• Sara Faridi (faridi@mathstat.dal.ca)
• Hugh Thomas (hthomas@unb.ca)
• Mike Zabrocki (zabrocki@mathstat.yorku.ca)

Please contact any of the organizers if you have any questions about the conference.
Additional information is available and will be posted at the
website for the conference:
http://garsia.math.yorku.ca/CAAC_2014/

The 2014 Joint Mathematics Meetings will be held in Baltimore, MD, January 15-18, 2014 (Wednesday – Saturday). This meeting will include an AMS Special Session on Homological and Characteristic p Methods in Commutative Algebra on the 16th and 17th, co-organized by Neil Epstein, George Mason University, Sean Sather-Wagstaff, North Dakota State University, and Karl Schwede, Penn State University.

From the organizers:

Dear Macaulay2 user,
We are organizing a Macaulay2 workshop, from Monday, January 6, 2014 through Friday, January 10, 2014 with Sunday, January 5 and Saturday, January 11 serving as the travel days. The workshop will be at the University of California, Berkeley, in Berkeley, CA. Activities will start first thing Monday morning (possibly Sunday night). Our main funding source for this workshop is the National Science Foundation.
The purpose of the workshop is to bring Macaulay2 developers together with those who would like to share or develop their skills at writing packages for Macaulay2 and those interested in developing the corresponding mathematical algorithms. Some examples of projects from past workshops can be viewed at the links at the end of this email. There is ongoing work on many of the packages described there, and we hope that a few teams will propose new projects and work on them at this workshop as well.
Attendance at this workshop is by invitation only — based on a brief application — and all who are interested are encouraged to apply. We anticipate financial support for approximately 20-30 people. We strive to include both experienced Macaulay2 developers and people who want to gain experience in Macaulay2 — there is no minimum amount of experience that is required in order to apply!
If you would like to attend, please apply as soon as possible at the following webpage:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dGRwZUdJWE9HZWdkdjBrMWpYVWhoVUE6MA#gid=0
Your application should include:
1. information about what projects/algorithms you would like to work on, and what you have done in the past. (This is the most important piece — please put some thought into this and be as specific as possible),
2. a good estimate of travel expenses, and whether you would require financial support for housing and meals (when available), and if you will be willing to share a room. (Rooms may be in limited supply; if additional single rooms are available, and you want one, we may ask you to pay any additional cost).
3. your current institution and rank, and if you are a graduate student, your advisor’s name.
Applications are due by 11:59pm on Monday, September 30, 2013. We plan to allocate funds to participants by Friday, October 11, 2013.
A few other pieces of information you may need:
1. Please commit to being present for the entire workshop.
2. You will need to bring your laptop with Macaulay2 on it to the workshop.
Sincerely,
Sonja Mapes,
Frank Moore, and
David Swinarski,
the organizers