Month: June 2015

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First announcement and call for papers / computations / posters
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MEGA 2015
Effective Methods in Algebraic Geometry
University of Trento, Department of Mathematics,
Povo (Trento) Italy
June 15-19, 2015
This is the 25th (silver!) anniversary of MEGA. During the conference
we will celebrate this anniversary with a special afternoon programme.
Further information: http://mega2015.science.unitn.it/
Submission page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mega2015

The joint meeting of the American Mathematical Society, the European Mathematical Society, and the Soceidad Portuguesa de Matemática, in Porto, Portugal (10-13 June of 2015) will host several special sessions in Algebra and Geometry.
There will be two sessions in Commutative Algebra are entitled “Commutative Artinian Algebras and Their Deformations” and “Homological and Combinatorial Commutative Algebra”, and organized by Anthony Iarrobino (Northeastern University), Pedro Macias Marques (Universidade de Évora), Maria Evelina Rossi (Università degli Studi di Genova), Inês B. Henriques (University of Sheffield), Lars Winther Christensen (Texas Tech University) and Maria Vaz Pinto (Universidade de Lisboa).
More information on the meeting can be found at: http://aep-math2015.spm.pt/ListOfSessions.

The AMS will hold a “Mathematics Research Community” (MRC) on Commutative Algebra in Snowbird, Utah, from June 7 to 13, 2015.
MRCs are designed “to develop and sustain long-lasting cohorts for collaborative research projects in many areas of mathematics. Women and underrepresented minorities are especially encouraged to participate. The AMS will provide a structured program to engage and guide all participants as they start their careers.”
The organizers for this MRC are

• Srikanth B. Iyengar, University of Utah
• Karl Schwede, University of Utah
• Liana Sega, University of Missouri—Kansas City
• Gregory G. Smith, Queen’s University
• Wenliang Zhang, University of Nebraska

The workshop will focus on the following topics:

1. Singularities in positive characteristic
2. Local cohomology and D-modules
3. Methods from homotopy theory
4. Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity
5. Infinite free resolutions

For more information, including application procedures, see the AMS web page for the MRC.

The International Centre for Mathematical Sciences (ICMS) in Edinburgh, Scotland, will hold a workshop on “Minimal free resolutions, Betti numbers, and combinatorics” June 1–5, 2015. The organizers are Milena Hering and Frank-Olaf Schreyer.
The workshop description says:

Bringing together researchers working on minimal free resolutions, combinatorics, and algebraic geometry this workshop will be a forum to exchange open questions and develop further directions of research. Topics covered by the workshop will include: Boij-Soderberg theory; asymptotic syzygies; combinatorial methods in understanding minimal free resolutions of monomial, toric ideals, or ideals associated to graphs; and methods of representation theory to understand Veronese embeddings.

For more information please see the web page for the workshop.