Month: October 2018

The Fall Western Sectional Meeting of the AMS will be held at San Francisco State University, on October 27-28, 2018 (Saturday – Sunday). The following sessions will run:

• Homological Aspects in Commutative Algebra and Representation Theory
  Organizers:
  Srikanth B. Iyengar, University of Utah
  Julia Pevtsova, University of Washington
• Homological Aspects of Noncommutative Algebra and Geometry
  Organizers:
  Dan Rogalski, University of California San Diego
  Sarah Witherspoon, Texas A&M University
  James Zhang, University of Washington

The 2018 Fall Central Sectional Meeting of the AMS will be at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI on October 20-21, 2018 (Saturday – Sunday).  The sessions below are some of the ones of interest to commutative algebraists that will run there:

• Special Session on Advances in Commutative Algebra
  Organizers:
  Jack Jeffries, University of Michigan jackjeff@umich.edu
  Linquan Ma, Purdue University
  Karl Schwede, University of Utah

• Special Session on Commutative Algebra and Complexity 
  Organizers:
  Harm Derksen, University of Michigan hderksen@umich.edu
  Francesca Gandini, University of Michigan
  Visu Makam, University of Michigan

• Special Session on Commutative Ring Theory 
  Organizers:
  Joe Stickles, Millikin University
  Darrin Weber, University of Evansville dw238@evansville.edu
• Special Session on Multiplicities and Volumes: An Interplay Among Algebra, Combinatorics, and Geometry
  Organizers:
  Federico Castillo, University of Kansas
  Jonathan Montaño, New Mexico State University jmon@nmsu.edu

KUMUNU (which is named for its original participating institutions: the University of Kansas, University of Missouri-Columbia, and University of Nebraska-Lincoln) 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 KUMUNU 2018 will be held at the University of Kansas, in Snow Hall 120, on October 13-14, 2018. The conference will also include a poster session for postdocs and graduate students.
The conference will provide lodging for as many participants as possible and possibly travel reimbursements for a small number of young people. In accordance with NSF guidelines, funds will be prioritized to support participants who have no other federal support and participants who are students, post-doctoral scholars, or members of groups that are under-represented in the mathematical sciences.
The website for KUMUNU 2018 can be found here: http://kumunu2018algebra.ku.edu/