Author: Graham Leuschke

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First announcement and call for papers / computations / posters
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MEGA 2015
Effective Methods in Algebraic Geometry
University of Trento, Department of Mathematics,
Povo (Trento) Italy
June 15-19, 2015
This is the 25th (silver!) anniversary of MEGA. During the conference
we will celebrate this anniversary with a special afternoon programme.
Further information: http://mega2015.science.unitn.it/
Submission page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mega2015

The joint meeting of the American Mathematical Society, the European Mathematical Society, and the Soceidad Portuguesa de Matemática, in Porto, Portugal (10-13 June of 2015) will host several special sessions in Algebra and Geometry.
There will be two sessions in Commutative Algebra are entitled “Commutative Artinian Algebras and Their Deformations” and “Homological and Combinatorial Commutative Algebra”, and organized by Anthony Iarrobino (Northeastern University), Pedro Macias Marques (Universidade de Évora), Maria Evelina Rossi (Università degli Studi di Genova), Inês B. Henriques (University of Sheffield), Lars Winther Christensen (Texas Tech University) and Maria Vaz Pinto (Universidade de Lisboa).
More information on the meeting can be found at: http://aep-math2015.spm.pt/ListOfSessions.

The AMS will hold a “Mathematics Research Community” (MRC) on Commutative Algebra in Snowbird, Utah, from June 7 to 13, 2015.
MRCs are designed “to develop and sustain long-lasting cohorts for collaborative research projects in many areas of mathematics. Women and underrepresented minorities are especially encouraged to participate. The AMS will provide a structured program to engage and guide all participants as they start their careers.”
The organizers for this MRC are

• Srikanth B. Iyengar, University of Utah
• Karl Schwede, University of Utah
• Liana Sega, University of Missouri—Kansas City
• Gregory G. Smith, Queen’s University
• Wenliang Zhang, University of Nebraska

The workshop will focus on the following topics:

1. Singularities in positive characteristic
2. Local cohomology and D-modules
3. Methods from homotopy theory
4. Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity
5. Infinite free resolutions

For more information, including application procedures, see the AMS web page for the MRC.

The International Centre for Mathematical Sciences (ICMS) in Edinburgh, Scotland, will hold a workshop on “Minimal free resolutions, Betti numbers, and combinatorics” June 1–5, 2015. The organizers are Milena Hering and Frank-Olaf Schreyer.
The workshop description says:

Bringing together researchers working on minimal free resolutions, combinatorics, and algebraic geometry this workshop will be a forum to exchange open questions and develop further directions of research. Topics covered by the workshop will include: Boij-Soderberg theory; asymptotic syzygies; combinatorial methods in understanding minimal free resolutions of monomial, toric ideals, or ideals associated to graphs; and methods of representation theory to understand Veronese embeddings.

For more information please see the web page for the workshop.

From Dan Grayson:

We are organizing a Macaulay2 workshop, from Wednesday, May 27, 2015 through Saturday, May 30, 2015 with Tuesday, May 26 and Sunday, May 31 serving as the travel days. The workshop will be at Boise State University in Boise, Idaho. Activities will start first thing Wednesday morning (possibly Tuesday night). Our main funding source for this workshop is the National Science Foundation.
The purpose of the workshop is to bring Macaulay2 developers together with those who would like to share or develop their skills at writing packages for Macaulay2 and those interested in developing the corresponding mathematical algorithms. We are interested in participants with a broad range of experience with Macaulay2, from very experienced to novices. The novices will have the opportunity to learn about Macaulay2 from the more experienced participants. Some examples of projects from past workshops can be viewed at the links at the end of this email. There is ongoing work on many of the packages described there, and we hope that a few teams will propose new projects and work on them at this workshop as well.
Attendance at this workshop is by invitation only — based on a brief application — and all who are interested are encouraged to apply. We anticipate financial support for approximately 30-35 people. We strive to include both experienced Macaulay2 developers and people who want to gain experience in Macaulay2 — there is no minimum amount of experience that is required in order to apply!
If you would like to attend, please apply as soon as possible at the following webpage
http://goo.gl/forms/lLWey61emd

For more information, see http://wiki.macaulay2.com/Macaulay2/index.php?title=Boise2015_Announcement_and_Application.

The Maurice Auslander Distinguished Lectures and International Conference will be held April 29 – May 4, 2015, in Woods Hole, MA. This year’s Distinguished Lectures will be given by Osamu Iyama.
For more information, please visit http://www.northeastern.edu/martsinkovsky/p/MADL/MADL.html

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln will host the fourth annual KUMUNUjr conference this Spring. Registration is now open: http://www.math.unl.edu/~ecanton2/KUMUNUjr/2015/registration.html

Registration closes April 6th. To be considered for funding, please register by March 20th, and for a 20 minute talk please register (with an abstract) by March 13th.
Dates: April 25-26, 2015
Location: University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Website: http://www.math.unl.edu/~ecanton2/KUMUNUjr/2015/

Confirmed Speakers (as of 2-26-15):
– Nitin Aggarwal, University of Kansas
– Hannah Altmann, North Dakota State University
– Thomas Polstra, University of Missouri – Columbia
– Brooke Ullery, University of Michigan
KUMUNUjr provides an opportunity for young mathematicians studying commutative algebra in the Midwest to share their research and expertise with one another. Our discipline is an active one, with connections to algebraic geometry, cluster algebras, combinatorics, homological algebra, representation theory, statistics, and other areas. Furthermore, midwestern commutative algebra research continues to reflect the activity and diversity of the commutative algebra research community. We anticipate funding through the NSF to partially cover travel and lodging expenses. Feel free to contact any of the organizers with questions.
On behalf of the KUMUNUjr planning committee:
Eric Canton ecanton@huskers.unl.edu
Doug Dailey ddailey2@math.unl.edu
Jason Lutz jlutz3@math.unl.edu

There will be a conference at the University of Connecticut titled “International Conference on Representation Theory and Commutative Algebra” (ICRTCA for short, not to be confused with IRTATCA). It will be held Friday, April 24 through Monday, April 27. It will focus on the application of methods from commutative algebra (and geometry) to problems in representation theory. For example, the geometry of orbit closures, interactions between representation type and invariant theory or homological properties, and cluster algebra structures arising in invariant theory, to name a few.
The conference is being held in honor of the 60th birthday of Jerzy Weyman, who has been a prolific contributor to the fields mentioned in the title.
More information about the conference, including accommodations, can be found at the conference webpage.

First International Workshop and Conference on Commutative Algebra
Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal
Monday, April 20, 2015 – Sunday, April 26, 2015
Mornings will be devoted to expository talks, to prepare the audience for 45-minute research presentations to take place in the afternoons. There will be opportunities for 20-minute talks by students and postdocs as well. The $225 conference fee will cover all lunches, afternoon teas, and a mountain excursion Thursday afternoon.
For information, please contact Roger Wiegand (rwiegand@math.unl.edu) or Sylvia Wiegand (swiegand@math.unl.edu).

Ayman Badawi and Marco Fontana are organizing a Special Session on Commutative Algebra and Its Applications as part of the Second International Conference on Mathematics and Statistics AUS-ICMS ’15, April 2-5, 2015 – Sharjah UAE, sponsored by the American Math. Society.
For more information, see the web page for the conference.