Author: Graham Leuschke

The “4th Seminar on Algebra and its Applications” organized by the University of Mohaghegh Ardabili, will be held on August 9-11, 2016 in Ardabil, Iran. The seminar continues the tradition of “workshop on Algebra and its Applications”, “Second Seminar on Algebra and its Applications” and “Third Seminar on Algebra and its Applications” which held at the university of Mohaghegh Ardabili in 2010, 2012 and 2014.
The seminar will take place at the Faculty of Mathematical Sciences of the University of Mohaghegh Ardabili which is located in the main campus of the University.
For more information, see the webpage for the seminar.

There will be a “School and Workshop on Homological Methods in Algebra and Geometry”, from 1st August to 12th August 2016, at AIMS Ghana. The school and workshop are organized by the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), in collaboration with AIMS Ghana.
The first week will consist of three minicourses:

• Khovanov homology and categorification – Brent Everitt (University of York)
• Noncommutative algebraic geometry – Paul Smith (University of Washington)
• Geometric representation theory (TBC) – Geordie Williamson (MPI Bonn)

The second week will comprise of research talks on these topics.
For more information, see the ICTP web page for the school and workshop.

Title: Geometric and topological aspects of the representation theory of finite groups
There will be a Summer school, followed by a Workshop, on the representation theory of finite groups and related algebraic structures, with an emphasis on the modular case.
Venue: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Summer School: 27th to 30th July 2016
Workshop: 1st to 5th August, 2016
The speakers at the Summer school are:

• Eric Friedlander, University of Southern California, U.S.A.
• Jesper Grodal, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
• Radha Kessar, City University, London, U.K.
• Peter Symonds, University of Manchester, U.K.

They will each deliver a lecture series consisting of four lectures each. Here is a tentative list of speakers at the Workshop:

• Alejandro Adem, University of British Columbia, Canada
• Luchezar L. Avramov, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, U.S.A.
• Paul Balmer, University of California, Los Angeles, U.S.A.
• David Eisenbud, University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A.
• Bob Guralnick, University of Southern California, U.S.A.
• Alexander Kleschev, University of Oregon, U.S.A.
• Henning Krause, University of Bielefeld, Germany.
• Markus Linckelmann, City University, London, U.K.
• Dan Nakano, University of Georgia, Athens, U.S.A.
• Brooke Shipley, University of Illinos, Chicago, U.S.A.
• Greg Stevenson, University of Bielefeld, Germany.
• Burt Totaro, University of California, Los Angeles, U.S.A.
• Mark Walker, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, U.S.A.

These events will be an occasion to celebrate Dave Benson’s 60th birthday and his distinguished mathematical career.
The organizers are

• Jon F. Carlson (University of Georgia)
• Srikanth B. Iyengar (University of Utah)
• Julia Pevtsova (University of Washington)
• Sarah Witherspoon (Texas A&M University).

Further information concerning the Summer School, including registration information, will be available at in due course at http://www.pims.math.ca/scientific-event/160727-psswgatartofg.

The University of Utah will host a Summer School and Conference on Birational Geometry and Singularities July 18-26, 2016.
For more information, see the web page.
update 29 August 2015: new web link

The Graz University of Technology will host a conference with the title “Conference on Rings and Polynomials”, July 3-8 2016. The topic will be Rings, algebras and polynomials, with emphasis on:

• Integer-valued polynomials
• Polynomial functions
• Multiplicative ideal theory
• Factorization theory in rings and semigroups
• Module theory and linear algebra over rings
• Homological algebra
• Prüfer domains and related topics
• Zariski-Riemann spaces of valuation domains

Invited Speakers:

• Silvana Bazzoni (Univ. of Padova, Italy)
• Paul-Jean Cahen (Univ. Aix-Marseille III, France)
• Mátyás Domokos (Hungarian Acad. Sci.)
• Mi Hee Park [unconfirmed] (Chung-Ang Univ., Korea)
• Hans Schoutens (CUNY, USA)
• Nicholas Werner (SUNY, USA)

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

The Fields Institute in Toronto, Ontario, will host a semester-long program in Combinatorial Algebraic Geometry in Fall 2016.
This semester-long program will focus on the topics in algebraic geometry with deep combinatorial connections. These will include, but are not limited to, Hilbert schemes, moduli spaces, Okounkov bodies, Schubert varieties, toric varieties, and tropical geometry.
There will be three programmatic workshops: an introductory workshop in August, a workshop on “Convexity in Algebraic Geometry” in October, and a workshop on “Combinatorial Moduli Spaces and Intersection Theory” in December. There will also be a graduate summer school in Summer 2016.
Applications for long-term visiting positions will be due in December 2015.
More information will be available on the webpage for the program.

The conference RECENT ADVANCES IN COMMUTATIVE RING AND MODULE THEORY will take place in Bressanone/Brixen, June 13-17 2016.
The main subjects include:

• Spaces of valuation domains and applications;
• Multiplicative Ideal Theory, lattices, star and semistar operations;
• Factorization and divisibility properties in the ideal theory of commutative rings;
• Rings of integer-valued polynomials;
• Topological and algebraic entropy over commutative rings;
• Almost t-injective and fully inert modules over integral domains

Invited Speakers:

• Alfred Geroldinger (U. Graz, AUT)
• Sophie Frisch (Technische U. Graz, AUT)
• Anna Giordano Bruno (U. Udine)
• Carmelo Antonio Finocchiaro (U. Roma Tre)
• Jean-Luc Chabert (U. de Picardie Jules Verne, FR)
• Luigi Salce (U. Padova)
• Tom Lucas (U. North Carolina Charlotte, USA) (to confirm)
• Mi Hee Park (Chung-Ang U., KOR)

For more information, see the web site of the conference.

The conference will be held on the occasion of Juan Migliore’s 60th birthday and will take place at the University of Notre Dame from May 16 to May 19, 2016. We plan to start the talks in the morning of Monday, May 16, and finish Thursday afternoon, May 19.
This meeting is in the tradition of Midwest Algebra and Geometry Conferences. The topics of the conference are recent advances in Commutative Algebra and its intersection with Algebraic Geometry, with particular emphasis on liaison theory, combinatorial commutative algebra, Hilbert functions, free resolutions, characteristic p methods, multiplicity theory, multiplier ideals, and local cohomology.
There will be a poster session to give junior mathematicians and graduate students an opportunity to present their work. Junior mathematicians and graduate students are particularly encouraged to participate in the conference, as well as mathematicians from traditionally underrepresented groups and faculty of undergraduate institutions.
Further and updated information is available on the webpage
http://www3.nd.edu/~conf/mcaag/
The deadline for applying for funding is March 1, 2016.
The organizers of the conference are:
Uwe Nagel
Claudia Polini
Bernd Ulrich
Please feel free to contact the organizers at magic16juan@gmail.com.

The Algebraic Geometry and Topology Research Training Group at the University of Utah will hold an Undergraduate Summer Course “Introduction to Algebraic Geometry”, May 16-27, 2016.
The funding Deadline is March 1st. For more information, see the web page for the Summer Course.

There is an upcoming Macaulay2 workshop, pending finalization of an NSF grant.
Title: Intensive Workshop for Macaulay2 Development
Dates: May 7th – 10th, University of Utah
Organizers: Adam Boocher, Karl Schwede, Amelia Taylor
Application to attend:
click this link
Information on the workshop will be available here:
http://wiki.macaulay2.com/Macaulay2/index.php?title=Utah2016_-_Main_Page