Author: Eloísa Grifo

We are looking to update our commutative algebra survey list. If you would like to suggest a recent survey that is not on our list yet but that you think should be, please contact us here, or email Eloísa and Branden.

If you have any suggestions, you can reply directly to Marie or you can contact us here.

We are deeply saddened to share with the community the news of the passing of Edwin O’Shea. In the words of Graham Leuschke, Edwin was “a hilarious, kind, generous person”. A memorial fund is being established in his name, the Edwin O’Shea Memorial Scholarship for Undergraduate Mathematics Research, which will benefit students currently enrolled at James Madison University. You can donate to the scholarship fund here. To learn more about Edwin, his contributions to academia and his commitment to his students visit this website, or read his obituary here.

West Virginia University has announced plans to discontinue its Math PhD and masters programs and to cut its faculty size. Our friends at West Virginia say that in this challenging time, any support they can get is crucial, and ask you to please sign this petition asking the university to reconsider.

There is a “Junior Professor Chair” position in “Computational Geometry” in Nice. Details here:

https://math.unice.fr/recrutement/junior-professor-chair-computational-geometry.html

The Junior Professor Chair is a new type of academic
position in the French academic system which leads in a short period
of time to a full professorship position.

We are deeply saddened to share with the community the news of the passing of David Rush, Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at UC Riverside (UCR).

“We learned that Professor Emeritus Dave Rush passed away on February 13, 2023. He joined UCR in 1971 and retired in 2018 after almost 50 years. Dave Rush was a dedicated teacher and researcher. He organized the long-running Friday Algebra Seminar at UCR (from 1983 to 2018!). He authored 83 papers, many with his students and the VAPs who came to work with him. His work spans a wide variety of topics in Commutative Algebra, from flat modules to problems on bounding number of generators of ideals, from Bezout domains to study of associated primes of ideals, from lattice modules to Rees algebras. At least a third of his work was with Professor Emeritus Jack Ratliff. Together they made many advances in ideal theory for commutative rings. In fact, a closure operation on ideals was named in their honor, and nowadays the Ratliff-Rush closure of an ideal is an object of interest to many who work in commutative algebra. Prof. Rush supervised 13 Ph.D. students and worked with many visiting assistant professors at UCR, who benefited immensely from his kind nature, his mathematical wisdom, and his support. ” – C. Ciuperca, B. Engheta, I. Henriques, Y. Kim, K. Lin, P. Mantero, J. McCullough, K. Shah, J. Hong, J. Vassilev, and all Dr. Rush’s VAPs

We are deeply saddened to share with the community the following news we received from Winfried Bruns:

“Udo Vetter, my teacher, colleague, coauthor and friend, passed away on January 26, 2023. He was born at Braunschweig, Germany, on October 6, 1938.”

There is a new regional conference in commutative algebra! The first edition of CATS (Commutative Algebra in The South) will be held in April 15-16, 2023, in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. More information can be found on the conference website.

There will be a thematic program on commutative algebra and its applications at the Fields Institute in Toronto, Canada from January 1 to June 30, 2025. Details about the program can be found on the program website (http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/activities/24-25/commutative).