Month: November 2018

There will be a Workshop on “Combinatorial Categories in Algebra and Topology”, November 22-24, 2018, at the University of Osnabrück. The organizers are Tim Römer, Oliver Röndigs and Markus Spitzweck.
Invited speakers include:

• Rob H. Eggermont (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)
• Moritz Groth (University of Bonn, Germany)
• Javier J. Gutiérrez (Universidad de Cantabria, Spain)
• Henning Krause (University of Bielefeld, Germany)
• Liping Li (Hunan Normal University, China)
• Ieke Moerdijk (University of Utrecht, The Netherlands)
• Uwe Nagel (University of Kentucky, USA)
• Dang Hop Nguyen (Hanoi Institute of Mathematics, Vietnam)
• Steffen Sagave (University of Bonn, Germany)
• Stefan Schwede (University of Bonn, Germany)

For more information see the web page for the workshop.

There will be a workshop on D-modules and Hodge Theory at UIC November 16-18, 2018.
There will be 3 introductory lecture series given by Donu Arapura, Mircea Mustata and Mihnea Popa.
The deadline for full consideration of financial support is September 16. Women and minorities are particularly encouraged to apply. For questions about the workshop in general, please email Nicholas Switala at nswitala@uic.edu or see the webpage for the workshop.

There will be a conference at Tulane University conference on “Commutative Algebra and Representation Theory” on November 8 — 11, 2018. The goal of this conference is to bring researchers from commutative algebra, algebraic combinatorics and representation theory together to stimulate further research interaction and collaboration across these areas. Limited funding for local accommodation is available for graduate students and junior researchers. If you would like to participate to this conference, please send an email to one of the organizers: Mahir Bilen Can (mcan@tulane.edu); Tai Huy Ha (tha@tulane.edu).
Confirmed speakers:

• Jacopo Gandini (Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy)
• Takayuki Hibi (Osaka University, Japan)
• Roy Joshua (The Ohio State University, USA)
• Kiumars Kaveh (University of Pittsburg)
• Uwe Nagel (University of Kentucky, USA)
• Lex Renner (University of Western Ontario, Canada)
• Tim Römer (Universität Osnabrück)
• Bart Van Steirteghem (City University of New York)
• Adam Van Tuyl (McMaster University, Canada)

For more information see the conference website:
http://www.math.tulane.edu/~mcan/CommutativeRepresentation.html
 

The 2018 Fall Southeastern Sectional Meeting of the AMS will be held at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR on November 3-4, 2018 (Saturday – Sunday). The following are relevant sessions.

• Special Session on Interactions Between Combinatorics and Commutative Algebra
  Organizers:
  Ashwini Bhat, Oklahoma State University
  Chris Francisco, Oklahoma State University chris.francisco@okstate.edu
  Jeffrey Mermin, Oklahoma State University

• Special Session on Commutative Algebra
  Organizers:
  Alessandro De Stefani, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  Paolo Mantero, University of Arkansas
  Thomas Polstra, University of Utah polstra@math.utah.edu

• Special Session on Advances in Birational Geometry
  Organizers:
  Roi Docampo-Álvarez, University of Oklahoma
  Lance Edward Miller, University of Arkansas lem016@uark.edu
  Wenbo Niu, University of Arkansas