Author: Graham Leuschke

There will be a conference on “Combinatorial Structures in Algebra und Topology” in Osnabrück (July 3rd – 6th, 2013). The aim of this concluding conference “Combinatorial Structures in Algebra and Topology” of the post graduate programme “Combinatorical Structures in Algebra and Topology” is to celebrate the work within this programme in the last years.
There will be lectures of internationally renowned speakers and former members of the post graduate programme to discuss recent results in the area of algebra, combinatorics and topology.
Invited Speakers:

• Morten Brun (University of Bergen)
• Graham Denham (University of Western Ontario)
• Neil Epstein (George Mason University)
• David Gepner (University of Regensburg)
• Jürgen Herzog (University of Duisburg-Essen)
• Thomas Kahle (TU München)
• Uwe Nagel (University of Kentucky)
• Paul Arne Østvær (University of Oslo)
• Anurag Singh (University of Utah)
• Greg Smith (Queen’s University Kingston)
• Markus Szymik (University of Copenhagen)
• Matteo Vabaro (Università di Genova)

For more information see the homepage for the conference.

The eighth International School on Computer Algebra: COCOA 2013 will take place on 10-14th June 2013 at Institut für Mathematik of Universität Osnabrück (Germany). The school will be held the week after MEGA 2013 (3-7th June, Frankfurt am Main, Germany).
there will be two intensive courses with CoCoA tutorials:

• Lorenzo Robbiano: Sets of Points and Mathematical Models (tutor: Maria-Laura Torrente)
• Winfried Bruns: Algorithms for toric geometry (tutor: TBA)

The tutors and assistants will be able to provide help for participants in the use of the computer algebra system CoCoA. Students who own laptops are encouraged to bring them for use during the tutorials.
Those wishing to participate in the School should submit a letter of application to either Lorenzo Robbiano or Anna M. Bigatti by 31 March 2013. For more information see the School web page.

Dalhousie University and Saint Mary’s University will host two events in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada in June 2013.
June 1–4: Workshop in Combinatorial Algebra & Mini Course in Commutative Algebra
Commutative Algebra Speakers:
Giulio Caviglia (Purdue) and Juergen Herzog (Essen)
Organized by: Atlantic Algebra Center
Here is a link to the workshop website.
Funding is available for graduate students and postdocs. Please apply by April 1st by writing to Sara Faridi (faridi@mathstat.dal.ca) and ask your supervisor to send a reference letter.
Contributed talks are welcome for the workshop.
June 4 –7: Summer Meeting of the Canadian Mathematical Society
There will be a plenary lecture by Irena Peeva (Cornell).
There will also be a Special Session on “Commutative Algebra and Combinatorics” organized by Jennifer Biermann, Sara Faridi, Andrew Hoefel, Adam Van Tuyl
Here is a link to the special session website.
Student funding will be available from the CMS, details will appear on the CMS website. If you would like to give a talk at the special session please contact one of the organizers.
Please send inquiries to faridi@mathstat.dal.ca.

There will be a workshop “Syzygies in Berlin” from May 27 to May 31, 2013. The workshop will bring together mathematicians ranging from graduate students to senior experts to study classical results and open problems surrounding syzygies, free resolutions and regularity. It will include three short courses:

• David Eisenbud (University of California, Berkeley, USA) Regularity of rings and the Gruson-Lazarsfeld-Peskine theorem
• Hal Schenck (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne, USA) Combinatorics and syzygies
• Frank-Olaf Schreyer (Universität des Saarlandes, Germany) Boij-Söderberg theory and asymptotic syzygies of algebraic varieties

The website http://syzygies.math.fu-berlin.de provides detailed information and a form for registration.

The Commutative Algebra of Singularities in Birational Geometry: Multiplier Ideals, Jets, Valuations, and Positive Characteristic Methods
May 6, 2013 to May 10, 2013
The workshop will examine the interplay between measures of singularities coming both from characteristic p methods of commutative algebra, and invariants of singularities coming from birational algebraic geometry. There is a long history of this interaction which arises via the “reduction to characteristic p” procedure. It is only in the last few years, however, that very concrete objects from both areas, namely generalized test ideals from commutative algebra and multiplier ideals from birational geometry, have been shown to be intimately connected. This workshop will explore this connection, as well as other topics used to study singularities such as jets schemes and valuations.
Organizer(s)
Craig Huneke* (Kansas University), Yujiro Kawamata (University of Tokyo), Mircea Mustata (University of Michigan), Karen Smith (University of Michigan), Kei-ichi Watanabe (Nihon University)
For more information: http://www.msri.org/web/msri/scientific/workshops/show/-/event/Wm9000

There will be a conference at Northeastern University in honor of the 60th birthday of Andrei Zelevinsky, April 24-28, 2013, called “Algebra, Combinatorics and Representation Theory”.
The speaker list is:

The organizing committee is:

• Jerzy Weyman
• Jonathan Weitsman
• Ben Webster
• Valerio Toledano-Laredo
• Maxim Braverman

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

The University of Nebraska–Lincoln will host the second KUMUNUjr conference this spring. Registration opens January 23 and closes March 15; to be considered for funding or a 20 minute talk, please register by March 1 (with an abstract if you’d like to talk).
Dates: April 20-21
Location: University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Website: http://www.math.unl.edu/~s-acroll1/KUMUNUjr/2013/
Confirmed Speakers (as of January 15, 2013):

• Olgur Celikbas (MU)
• Kosmas Diveris (St. Olaf)
• Jason Hardin (UNL)
• Richard Wicklein (NDSU)

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 macrocosm of the commutative algebra research community.
More information can be found on the conference in general at last year’s website:
http://www.math.ku.edu/~bstone/KUMUNUjr/2012/
We anticipate being able to provide at least partial funding for travel and lodging since our NSF application was successful (see the award: http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1303248)!
Feel free to contact any of the organizers with questions.
KUMUNUjr planning committee:

• Michael Brown (mbrown15@math.unl.edu)
• Amanda Croll (s-acroll1@math.unl.edu)
• Courtney Gibbons (s-cgibbon5@math.unl.edu)
• Jason Lutz (jlutz3@math.unl.edu)

The Maurice Auslander Distinguished Lectures and International Conference will be held April 18–23, 2013, in Woods Hole, MA. This year’s Distinguished Lectures will be given by Sergey Fomin.
For more information, including instructions on how to register, see the web page for the Conference.