Month: February 2018

SLAM 2018

The 2018 edition of the Southwest Local Algebra Meeting (SLAM) will be held at U. of Arkansas in Fayetteville, 24-25 Feb 2018.

Confirmed Speakers

Matthew Day  (University of Arkansas)

Joseph (JM) Landsberg  (Texas A&M University)

Hema Srinivasan  (University of Missouri)

Peder Thompson  (Texas Tech University)

Bernd Ulrich  (Purdue University)

Organizers

Lars Winther Christensen  (Texas Tech University)

Louiza Fouli  (New Mexico State University)

Mark Johnson  (University of Arkansas)

David Jorgensen  (University of Texas at Arlington)

Paolo Mantero  (University of Arkansas)

For more information, see the SLAM webpage.

Georgia Algebraic Geometry Symposium

Georgia Algebraic Geometry Symposium will be held at Georgia Tech from
Friday February 23 to Sunday February 25, 2018.
The speakers will be:

  • Linda Chen (Swarthmore College)
  • June Huh (Institute for Advanced Study)
  • David Jensen (University of Kentucky)
  • Jesse Kass (University of South Carolina)
  • Lek-Heng Lim (University of Chicago)
  • Kristin Shaw (Technischen Universität Berlin)
  • Andrew Snowden (University of Michigan)
  • Padmavathi Srinivasan (Georgia Institute of Technology)

You can go to http://people.math.gatech.edu/~jrabinoff6/gags2018/ to register, request funding, and get more information about the conference. Funding is available for graduate students and young researchers.
Organizers: Matt Baker, Greg Blekherman, Anton Leykin, Joe Rabinoff, Kirsten Wickelgren, and Josephine Yu

Rings and Factorizations, Graz, 2018

From February 19th to 23rd, 2018 a Conference on Rings and Factorizations will be organized at the Institute of Mathematics and Scientific Computing at the University of Graz in Graz, Austria.
The conference continues a series of ring theory conferences in Graz from 2012, 2014, and 2016.
The main subjects include:

  • Multiplicative ideal theory: ideal and module systems, star and semistar operations,
  • Dedekind, Prüfer, Krull, and Mori rings and their generalizations,
  • Rings of integer-valued polynomials,
  • Topological aspects in rings theory,
  • Factorization theory in rings and semigroups,
  • Direct-sum decomposition of modules.

Plenary Lectures will be given by:

  • Pham Ngoc Anh (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary)
  • Carmelo Finnocchiaro (University of Padova, Italy)
  • David J. Grynkiewicz (The University of Memphis, USA)
  • Evan Houston (UNC Charlotte, USA)
  • Mi Hee Park (Chung-Ang University, Korea)
  • Pavel Prihoda (Charles University, Czech Republic)
  • Manuel Reyes (Bowdoin College, USA)
  • Luigi Salce (University of Padova, Italy)
  • Daniel Smertnig (University of Waterloo, Canada)

Scientific Advisory Board:

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

Visiting position, Universitat de Barcelona

The Departament de Matemàtiques i Informàtica of the Universitat de Barcelona is looking for a candidate with a strong research record in Commutative Algebra for a one-year visiting position with a possibility of extension.
It is expected that the candidate will participate in the research activities of the Department and will undertake teaching duties (to be negotiated).
The salary will depend on the experience of the chosen candidate and it can be up to 36k euros per year before taxes.
The start of the position will ideally be September 1st, 2018, although there is some flexibility.
The deadline for submission of applications is March 5th. Interested candidates must sent a complete CV together with a research plan of no more than 2 pages to costa@ub.edu. Recommendation letters can be sent directly to the same address.
For more information, interested candidates may contact costa@ub.edu.