Year: 2015

AMS Georgetown

There are (at least) three special sessions of interest to commalg.org readers being held at the AMS Eastern sectional this March 7-8 at Georgetown University in Washington, DC.

SLAM 2015

The 2015 Southwest Local Algebra Meeting (SLAM 2015) will take place at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater OK, 28 Feb — 1 Mar 2015. Speakers include:

  • Giulio Caviglia (Purdue University)
  • Laura Matusevich (Texas A&M University)
  • Lance Miller (University of Arkansas)
  • Chris Peterson (Colorado State University)
  • Edward Richmond (Oklahoma State University)
  • Kristen Stagg (University of Texas-Tyler)

The organizers are

  • Lars Winther Christensen (Texas Tech University)
  • Louiza Fouli (New Mexico State University)
  • Chris Francisco (Oklahoma State University)
  • David Jorgensen (University of Texas-Arlington)
  • Jeff Mermin (Oklahoma State University)
  • Jay Schweig (Oklahoma State University)

For more information, including info about registration, travel, and accommodation, see the web page for the conference.

Chicago: Local Cohomology

RTG Local Cohomology Workshop at UIC, Feb 27 – Mar 1, 2015
(for graduate students, postdocs, and young researchers)

  • Introduction – Kevin Tucker (UIC)
  • Minicourse 1 – Local Cohomology and Group Actions – Claudiu Raicu (University of Notre Dame)
  • Minicourse 2 – Local Cohomology and Hypergeometric Systems – Uli Walther (Purdue University)
  • Minicourse 3 – Local Cohomology and Frobenius – Wenliang Zhang (University of Nebraska)

For more information or to apply for funding (deadline: January 15), please go to:
http://kftucker.people.uic.edu/localcohom

HTCA, Genova, Italy

There will be a School on “Homology: Theoretical and Computational Aspects (HTCA)” in Genova, Italy, February 9-13, 2015.
The HTCA School is aimed at a broad audience, including PhD students, early postdocs and specialists in neighbouring areas. The school comprises three lecture courses with tutorials, and talks. The courses will be held by Herbert Edelsbrunner, Bruno Benedetti and Massimo Ferri.
Some financial support may be available for graduate students and early postdocs. Please register online at http://htca2015.dibris.unige.it/index.php/submission before the deadline 15th December.
The school is jointly organized by the Department of Computer Science, Bioinformatics, Robotics and Systems Engineering (DIBRIS) and by the Department of Mathematics (DIMA) of the University Genova.
For more details and questions visit the HTCA website: http://htca2015.dibris.unige.it or contacts us at htca@dima.unige.it

Happy birthday to us!

Screen Shot 2015-02-05 at 11.50.27 AMToday is the 13th birthday of commalg.org. Since our grand opening in 2002, we’ve tried hard to be a useful resource to the commutative algebra community, and we are grateful to the community for its appreciation.
If you’re interested in joining the commalg.org team, please get in touch. We’re thinking about the future of commalg.org, and you could be involved.
Anyway, thanks again!

Artin Approximation at CIRM

There will be a special semester-long program on Artin Approximation and the spaces of power series at CIRM (Marseille – France) from January 25 to June 3, 2015. In particular there will be a doctoral school on the subject from January 26th to 30th.
Here are some of the other events:

  • Doctoral course: Introduction to Artin Approximation and the Geometry of power series spaces – January 26-30
  • Conference: Applications of Artin Approximation in Singularity Theory – February 2-6
  • Conference: Young researchers in Singularity Theory – February 9-13
  • Conference: Real Singularities and Applications – February 16-20
  • Conference: Local and Global Invariants of Singularities – February 23-27
  • Conference: Geometry of Singular Spaces and Maps – March 2-6
  • Conference: Artin Approximation and Infinite Dimensional Geometry – March 23-27

More details may be found on the website of the program: http://chairejeanmorlet-1stsemester2015.weebly.com/chaire-jean-morlet.html

PhD student positions, Graz and Leoben (Austria)

22 PhD positions in Discrete Mathematics in Graz and Leoben (Austria)
The Doctoral Program “Discrete Mathematics” (in its second phase 2015-2018) offers up to 22 PhD positions for an advanced PhD training and research program.
It is run jointly by

  • – Graz University of Technology,
  • – University of Graz,
  • – University of Leoben.

The doctoral program is funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) and the three supporting universities.
The range of topics comprises the following topics:

  • – Commutative and non-commutative Algebra
  • – Number Theory
  • – Additive Combinatorics
  • – Discrete Dynamics and Fractals
  • – Graph Theory
  • – Combinatorial Group Theory
  • – Discrete Stochastics
  • – Combinatorial Optimization
  • – Computational and Discrete Geometry
  • – Analysis of Algorithms

We offer up to 22 PhD positions for up to 4 years and a gross salary of 27.900 EUR per year. There is additional funding for extended stays abroad. The official language is English. The positions are assigned to 11 specific research projects within the above areas. For details about the research projects as well as the formal application criteria, see
www.math.tugraz.at/discrete
A selection of candidates will be invited for an interview. There will be two major interview sessions, one in March 2015 and a second one in June 2015. For being considered for the first interview session, and possible start in March/April, applications have to arrive by February 15, 2015. Later applications, which are to be considered for the second interview session and possible start in October, have to arrive by May 15, 2015.
Applications should be sent by e-mail to discrete@TUGraz.at to the coordinators of the doctoral program.

JMM 2015, San Antonio

The 2015 Joint Mathematics Meeting will take place in San Antonio TX, January 10 – 13 2015. There will be several sessions of interest to commalg.org readers: