Author: Graham Leuschke

There will be a Workshop on “NonLinear Algebra: Interactions among Algebraic Geometry, Combinatorics, Commutative Algebra, Convexity, Statistics, Optimization and Computational Biology” in Berlin, Germany, May 29-30, 2015.
This is the kickoff workshop for the project on NonLinear Algebra that is funded for 2015-2018 by the Einstein Foundation. The organizers are Fatemeh Mohammadi (Osnabrück University) and Bernd Sturmfels (UC Berkeley). For more information see the web page for the workshop.

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln will host the third annual KUMUNUjr conference April 26-27 2014. Registration is now open: visit http://www.math.unl.edu/~jlutz3/KUMUNUjr/2014/registration.html.
Registration closes March 22nd. To be considered for funding or a 20 minute talk, please register by March 8th (with an abstract if you’d like to talk).
Dates: April 26-27, 2014
Location: University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Website: http://www.math.unl.edu/~jlutz3/KUMUNUjr/2014/
Confirmed Speakers (as of February 19, 2014):

• Justin Hoffmeier (University of Missouri-Kansas City)
• Van Nguyen (Texas A&M University)
• Denise Rangel (University of Texas at Arlington)
• Sarang Sane (University of Kansas)
• Zheng Yang (University of Nebraska)

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.
Through funding from the NSF, we anticipate being able to provide at least partial funding for travel and lodging.
Feel free to contact any of the organizers with questions.
Michael Brown mbrown15@math.unl.edu
Jason Lutz jlutz3@math.unl.edu

The next AGNES will take place at Stony Brook on April 25-27. There are funds to support participants, particularly junior participants. The registration deadline is March 15th (or thereabouts).
The list of confirmed and tentative speakers is as follows.

• Ron Donagi (University of Pennsylvania): TBD
• Eugene Gorsky (Columbia University): Refined Knot Invariants and Hilbert Schemes
• Sandor Kovacs (University of Washington): TBD
• James McKernan* (UC San Diego): TBD
• Zsolt Patakfalvi (Princeton University): On Subadditivity of Kodaira Dimension in Positive Characteristic
• Michael Thaddeus (Columbia University): TBD
• Burt Totaro (Cambridge University and UCLA): The Chow Ring of a Finite Group
• Cynthia Vinzant (University of Michigan): Symmetroids and Quartic Spectrahedra

*To be confirmed
There will also be a panel discussion on directing research projects for undergraduates led by Sam Payne (Yale), Jessica Sidman (Mount Holyoke) and Jenia Tevelev (UMass Amherst).
For more details and a registration please see the workshop webpage.
There are funds to support participants, but participants with significant travel costs are encouraged to explore partial support from their home institutions.
Organizers:

• Samuel Grushevsky,
• Radu Laza,
• Robert Lazarsfeld,
• Jason Starr

The Central Spring Sectional Meeting of the AMS will be held at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, TX, April 11-13, 2014 (Friday – Sunday).
There are several sessions of potential interest to commutative algebraists:

• Brian Harbourne and Alexandra Seceleanu are co-organizing a special session on “Interactions between Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry” at this meeting (link to schedule)
• David Weinberg is running a special session on “Algebraic Geometry” (link to schedule)
• Kenneth Chan and Jack Jeffries are running a special session on “Developments from PASI 2012: Commutative Algebra and Interactions with Related Disciplines” (link to schedule)
• Lars W. Christensen, Hamid Rahmati and Janet Striuli are running a special session on “Homological Methods in Algebra” (link to schedule)

There will be several events of interest to commalg.org readers at the Western Spring Sectional Meeting of the AMS at University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, held April 5-6, 2014.

• There will be a Special Session on Commutative Algebra organized by Daniel J. Hernandez, Karen E. Smith, and Emily E. Witt. Here is the AMS page for the Session.
• There will be a Special Session on Interactions in Commutative Algebra organized by Louiza Fouli, Bruce Olberding, and Janet Vassilev. Here is the AMS page for the Session.
• Also, Karen E. Smith of the University of Michigan will be giving one of the plenary addresses.