Year: 2015

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.

From Dan Grayson:

We are organizing a Macaulay2 workshop, from Wednesday, May 27, 2015 through Saturday, May 30, 2015 with Tuesday, May 26 and Sunday, May 31 serving as the travel days. The workshop will be at Boise State University in Boise, Idaho. Activities will start first thing Wednesday morning (possibly Tuesday 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. We are interested in participants with a broad range of experience with Macaulay2, from very experienced to novices. The novices will have the opportunity to learn about Macaulay2 from the more experienced participants. 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 30-35 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
http://goo.gl/forms/lLWey61emd

For more information, see http://wiki.macaulay2.com/Macaulay2/index.php?title=Boise2015_Announcement_and_Application.

The Maurice Auslander Distinguished Lectures and International Conference will be held April 29 – May 4, 2015, in Woods Hole, MA. This year’s Distinguished Lectures will be given by Osamu Iyama.
For more information, please visit http://www.northeastern.edu/martsinkovsky/p/MADL/MADL.html

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln will host the fourth annual KUMUNUjr conference this Spring. Registration is now open: http://www.math.unl.edu/~ecanton2/KUMUNUjr/2015/registration.html

Registration closes April 6th. To be considered for funding, please register by March 20th, and for a 20 minute talk please register (with an abstract) by March 13th.
Dates: April 25-26, 2015
Location: University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Website: http://www.math.unl.edu/~ecanton2/KUMUNUjr/2015/

Confirmed Speakers (as of 2-26-15):
– Nitin Aggarwal, University of Kansas
– Hannah Altmann, North Dakota State University
– Thomas Polstra, University of Missouri – Columbia
– Brooke Ullery, University of Michigan
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 commutative algebra research community. We anticipate funding through the NSF to partially cover travel and lodging expenses. Feel free to contact any of the organizers with questions.
On behalf of the KUMUNUjr planning committee:
Eric Canton ecanton@huskers.unl.edu
Doug Dailey ddailey2@math.unl.edu
Jason Lutz jlutz3@math.unl.edu

There will be a conference at the University of Connecticut titled “International Conference on Representation Theory and Commutative Algebra” (ICRTCA for short, not to be confused with IRTATCA). It will be held Friday, April 24 through Monday, April 27. It will focus on the application of methods from commutative algebra (and geometry) to problems in representation theory. For example, the geometry of orbit closures, interactions between representation type and invariant theory or homological properties, and cluster algebra structures arising in invariant theory, to name a few.
The conference is being held in honor of the 60th birthday of Jerzy Weyman, who has been a prolific contributor to the fields mentioned in the title.
More information about the conference, including accommodations, can be found at the conference webpage.

First International Workshop and Conference on Commutative Algebra
Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal
Monday, April 20, 2015 – Sunday, April 26, 2015
Mornings will be devoted to expository talks, to prepare the audience for 45-minute research presentations to take place in the afternoons. There will be opportunities for 20-minute talks by students and postdocs as well. The $225 conference fee will cover all lunches, afternoon teas, and a mountain excursion Thursday afternoon.
For information, please contact Roger Wiegand (rwiegand@math.unl.edu) or Sylvia Wiegand (swiegand@math.unl.edu).

Ayman Badawi and Marco Fontana are organizing a Special Session on Commutative Algebra and Its Applications as part of the Second International Conference on Mathematics and Statistics AUS-ICMS ’15, April 2-5, 2015 – Sharjah UAE, sponsored by the American Math. Society.
For more information, see the web page for the conference.

There will be a doctoral school on matroids in Neuchâtel, March 25-27, 2015.
The school is open to everyone, though financial help is limited to those inside Switzerland.
Organizers:

• Emanuele Delucchi (Fribourg), emanuele.delucchi@unifr.ch
• Elisa Gorla (Neuchâtel), elisa.gorla@unine.ch
• Relinde Jurrius (Neuchâtel), relinde.jurrius@unine.ch

For more information, see the web page for the school.

There will be a workshop “Commutative Algebra and related topics” at University of Kansas, Lawrence on the weekend of March 21-22. There will be 6-7 one-hour talks by young speakers on some very fresh results in a diverse array of topics: regularity of ideals and combinatorics, local cohomology in characteristic 0 and p, Hochster’s invariant and topological K-theory.
The talks will be on Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning, with possibly two informal discussion sessions on Saturday morning and Sunday afternoon.
Details on speakers, titles and abstracts can be found here: http://www.math.ku.edu/~hdao/Algebra2015
There might only be a very limited amount of funding available for lodging for graduate students. Please email hdao@ku.edu if you are interested.