The Southeastern Spring Sectional Meeting of the AMS will be held at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Knoxville, TN, March 21-23, 2014 (Friday – Sunday). This meeting will include a Special Session on Commutative Ring Theory (in honor of the retirement of David E. Dobbs) co-organized by David Anderson, University of Tennessee, Knoxville and Jay Shapiro, George Mason University.
Month: March 2014
Yuji Yoshino awarded MSJ Algebra Prize
On March 17, 2014, the Mathematical Society of Japan awarded the “MSJ Algebra Prize” to Yuji Yoshino for his contributions to the representation theory of Cohen-Macaulay rings. He is the third commutative algebraist to be awarded the prize; previous winners include Kei-ichi Watanabe and Shiro Goto.
Warmest congratulations to Yuji Yoshino!
Chicago: positive characteristic
Positive Characteristic Algebraic Geometry Workshop
March 21 – 23, 2014 at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC)
Organized by Zsolt Patakfalvi, Karl Schwede, and Kevin Tucker
Description: This workshop, aimed at graduate students and young postdocs, will expose participants to the use of Frobenius in the study of local singularities and global higher dimensional geometry in positive characteristic. We hope to incorporate a mix of introductory talks and problem sessions in groups, and will focus on presenting a number of open questions with sufficient background to be worked on both during and after the workshop.
The funding for this workshop comes from a National Science Foundation Research Training Grant (DMS 1246844).
Important Dates/Information:
Limited funding for travel and lodging is available — to apply, simply indicate that funding is needed when submitting the registration form on this website. The deadline for consideration for funding is February 1.
Participants should plan to arrive in Chicago in the afternoon on Friday, March 21, and the first session of the workshop will be on Friday evening. The workshop will conclude with lunch on Sunday, and participants can plan to depart from Chicago in the afternoon on Sunday, March 23.
Günter Scheja, 1932–2014
We are saddened to learn that Günter Scheja (academic genealogy, MathSciNet), who worked in commutative algebra, algebraic geometry, and several complex variables, passed away January 26.
Here is an obituary in German and in English translation.
Arkansas postdoc
The University of Arkansas will have an open post-doc in starting in Fall 2014 and are now accepting applications through Mathjobs. The initial appointment is for one year, but is usually renewable for a second year and carries a 2-2 load. For more information, please see the official ad: https://www.mathjobs.org/jobs/jobs/5781.
Koszul
Aron Simis sends in this photo of Jean-Louis Koszul, taken in Grenoble France.
Aron writes, “I wonder if this of interest to the community to post the picture. I consider it quite rare, since I spent most of my mathematical life talking about “Koszul” and finally met my mathematics in person!”
Also in the photo (l to r): Marcel Morales, Mikhail Zaidenberg, ??, Koszul, Simis, Lê Tuân Hoa, Santiago Zarzuela.
Trentino, Italy: MOCCA
MOCCA 2014: Meeting On Combinatorial Commutative Algebra 2014.
The meeting will take place September 8-12, 2014, with the 7th and 13th as travel days. The meeting will be held in the Bellavista Relax Hotel in Levico Terme (Löweneck), a municipality in Trentino in the northern Italian region Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, located about 15 km southeast of Trento.
See the conference website for more information