Year: 2016

The University of Illinois at Chicago will host an RTG Workshop on the Homological Conjectures in Commutative Algebra from November 18th through the 20th of 2016. The minicourses will be geared toward graduate students, postdocs, and young researchers; titles are speakers are listed below:

• Introduction – Chris Skalit (UIC)
• Minicourse 1 – Mel Hochster (Michigan): An overview of the homological conjectures, recent progress on the direct summand conjecture, big Cohen-Macaulay modules and algebras, and lim Cohen-Macaulay sequences
• Minicourse 2 – Mark Walker (Nebraska): Tackling homological conjectures using algebraic K-theory
• Minicourse 3 – Linquan Ma (Utah): The vanishing conjecture for maps of Tor, splinters, and derived splinters

Workshop and registration information may be found at (http://kftucker.people.uic.edu/homconj/). Those seeking funding should apply by October 10th.

There will be a special session at the Fall Southeastern Sectional Meeting, North Carolina State University at Raleigh, Raleigh, NC on November 12-13, 2016 (Saturday – Sunday)
See more information at: http://www.ams.org/meetings/sectional/2241_program.html

Special Session on Homological Methods in Commutative Algebra.

Organizers:

Alina Iacob: Georgia Southern University

Saeed Nasseh, Georgia Southern University

CA+, a mini-conference hosted jointly by Minnesota and Wisconsin and highlights work in commutative algebra and related fields like algebraic geometry, number theory, combinatorics, and more. Colloquium-style talks will be targeted at a broad audience of people interested in algebra. The dates are Nov 4-5, 2016 in Madison, WI. For more information, see the conference website:

 http://www.math.umn.edu/~cberkesc/CA/CA2016.html.

 

The University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran will organize the Grothendieck Seminar October 25, 2016. The goal of the seminar is to promote different facets of Grothendieck’s life and heritage.
The organization is still in progress. Contact the organizers at a.g.seminar2016@gmail.com if you have any queries about attending or participating in the seminar. For additional information, see the webpage for the seminar.

Second International Workshop and Conference in Commutative Algebra (SIWCCA)

Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal
October 17 – 28, 2016
The workshop and conference will feature both preparatory talks and research/expository talks. The First International Workshop and Conference, in April 2015, was interrupted on its last day by the devastating earthquake, but nonetheless gave Nepali students and young faculty a taste of “what’s out there” in our field.
For information, please visit
http://www.cdmathtu.edu.np/index.php?show=commutative_algebra
or contact Roger and Sylvia Wiegand (rwiegand1@unl.edu, swiegand1@unl.edu) for details about the scientific program and Ajaya Singh (Singh.ajaya1@gmail.com) about local arrangements (transportation from the airport, lodging arrangements, etc.)
updated 5 Sept 2016

KUMUNU 2016 will be hosted by the University of Kansas on October 1-2, organized by Hailong Dao, Daniel Hernández, Daniel Katz, and Emily Witt.
KUMUNU has been an annual conference for commutative algebraists in the Great Plains region since 1999. It has evolved into a conference involving not only commutative algebra but many different fields where commutative algebra has found applications and inspirations.
This year’s speakers are

• Ian Aberbach, University of Missouri
• Tom Marley, University of Nebraska
• Jonathan Montano, University of Kansas
• Claudia Polini, University of Notre Dame
• Steven Sam, University of Wisconsin
• Karl Schwede, University of Utah

The organizers ask that participants register by August 29 since they need to reserve rooms. For more information, see the KUMUNU 2016 web page.

The 26th annual Route 81 Conference will be held at Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York, on Saturday, 24 September, 2016.  For more information, please visit the conference website at

http://www.commalg.org/Rte81-2016/

CIRM will be hosting a workshop on Higher Dimensional Algebraic Geometry and Characteristic p  September 12-16, 2016.
Over the past two years, there has been substantial and rapid progress in the understanding of higher dimensional algebraic varieties in characteristic p > 0, specifically from the point of view of the minimal model program. Techniques first developed in commutative algebra and representation theory in the 1980s have begun to be employed extensively. Further development and dissemination of these methods is still needed. On the other hand, it has become clear that in order for further progress to be made, connections with arithmetic aspects of varieties in characteristic p > 0 must be explored and addressed. Additionally, recent progress on applications of Berkovich spaces to birational algebraic geometry suggests another direction in which we will try to forge connections. This workshop will bring together researchers from distinct several areas within algebraic geometry and and also arithmetic geometry with the goal of disseminating recent techniques and forging new connections in research.
Scientific and organizing committee:
Manuel Blickle (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz)
Karl Schwede (University of Utah)
Chenyang Xu (Beijing International Center for Mathematical Research)
For more information visit the workshop webpage: http://scientific-events.weebly.com/1376.html.

The 2nd International Conference on Algebra in Honour of Leonid BOKUT and Surender K. JAIN will be held in Burhaniye, Balikesir, Turkey, 26-29 August 2016.
For more information, see the website for the conference.