Author: Graham Leuschke

Imperial College (London, UK) will host a workshop on “Characteristic p methods in Algebraic Geometry”, April 2-5 2013. The main lecturers are James McKernan and Karl Schwede, and invited speakers include Nick Shepherd-Barron and Chenyang Xu (to be confirmed).
The participants are expected to be graduate students and young postdocs. The workshop consists of some lectures by the two main lecturers, as well as talks by participants and a poster session.
For more information, including support and travel arrangements, see the workshop web page.

The Southwest Local Algebra Meeting 2013 will take place at the University of Arizona in Tucson, March 2-3, 2013. Confirmed speakers include:

• Ragnar-Olaf Buchweitz (University of Toronto)
• Klaus Lux (University of Arizona)
• Michaela Vancliff (University of Texas-Arlington)
• Jeff Mermin (Oklahoma State University)
• Paolo Mantero (MSRI)

See the website http://www.math.ttu.edu/~lchriste/slam2013.html for more information.

Representation Theory, Homological Algebra, and Free Resolutions
Feb 11, 2013 to Feb 17, 2013
The workshop will focus on recent breakthroughs in understanding and applications of free resolutions and on interactions of commutative algebra and representation theory, where algebraic geometry often appears as a third player. A specific goal is to stimulate further interaction between these fields.
Organizer(s)
Luchezar Avramov (University of Nebraska), David Eisenbud (University of California, Berkeley), and Irena Peeva* (Cornell University)
For more information: http://www.msri.org/web/msri/scientific/workshops/show/-/event/Wm8999

The Connections for Women Workshop associated to the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute program Noncommutative Algebraic Geometry and Representation Theory will be held on Thursday, January 24, 2013 and Friday, January 25, 2013. The workshop is intended to bring together women who are working in these research areas and related fields at all stages of their careers.
As the first event in the MSRI semester program, this workshop will feature a “tapas menu” of current research and open questions: light but intriguing tastes, designed to encourage further exploration and interest. Talks will be aimed at a fairly general audience and will cover diverse topics within the theme of the program. In addition, there will be a poster session for graduate students and recent PhD recipients and a panel discussion on career issues, as well as free time for informal discussion.
The speakers will be:

• Iain Gordon, University of Edinburgh
• Graham Leuschke, Syracuse University
• Susan Sierra, University of Edinburgh
• Catherina Stroppel, University of Bonn
• Michaela Vancliff, University of Texas, Arlington
• Lauren Williams, University of California, Berkeley
• Sarah Witherspoon, Texas A & M University
• James Zhang, University of Washington

Limited funding is available, with a preference for young researchers. The deadline for applying for funding is October 14, 2012.
Information about the conference, and the link to register, can be found at:
http://www.msri.org/web/msri/scientific/show/-/event/Wm9061.
Organizers:

• Georgia Benkart, University of Wisconsin, Madison
• Ellen Kirkman, Wake Forest University
• Susan Sierra, University of Edinburgh

There are at least three AMS Special Sessions of interest to commalg readers at the JMM San Diego in January 2013.
First, Tai Ha and Kuei-Nuan Lin are organizing a Special Session on Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry, Wednesday January 9, 2013.
Confirmed speakers include:

• David Eisenbud
• Craig Huneke
• Jason McCullough
• Javid Validashti
• Chris Francisco
• Susan Morey
• Ben Richert
• Yu Xie

For more information, see the AMS webpage for the session or the page maintained by the organizers.
Second, Ines Henriques (University of Sheffield, UK), Julia Bergner and Philip Hackney (from University of California Riverside) are organizing a Special Session on Homotopy Theory and Commutative Algebra on January 10th and 11th, 2013. The link to the AMS webpage for the session is http://jointmathematicsmeetings.org/meetings/national/jmm2013/2141_program_ss19.html.
Third, Scott T. Chapman (Sam Houston State University) and Vadim Ponomarenko (San Diego State University) are organizing a Special Session on Arithmetic and Ideal Theory of Integral Domains and Monoids on January 9th and 10th, 2013. The link to the AMS webpage for the session is http://jointmathematicsmeetings.org/meetings/national/jmm2013/2141_program_ss27.html.

There will be a conference on “Commutative rings, integer-valued polynomials and polynomial functions” in Graz, Austria, December 19–22, 2012. Confirmed speakers (as of July 2011) include:

• Jean-Luc Chabert
• Sarah Glaz
• Byung Gyun Kang
• Alan Loper
• Irena Swanson

For more information, see the web page for the conference.
The conference will be preceded by a mini-course on commutative rings, integer-valued polynomials and polynomial functions Dec. 16-18, 2012, taught by the main speakers of the conference.

Dec 3, 2012 to Dec 7, 2012
This workshop on Combinatorial Commutative Algebra aims to bring together researchers studying toric algebra and degenerations, simplicial objects such as monomial ideals and Stanley-Reisner rings, and their connections to tropical geometry, algebraic statistics, Hilbert schemes, D-modules, and hypergeometric functions.
Speakers:

• Christine Berkesch (Duke University)
• Aldo Conca (Università degli Studi di Genova)
• Daniel Erman (University of Michigan)
• Thomas Kahle (MSRI, Berkeley)
• Mateusz Michalek (Max-Planck Institute, Bonn)
• Ezra Miller (Duke University)
• Satoshi Murai (Yamaguchi University)
• Uwe Nagel (University of Kentucky)
• Hidefumi Ohsugi (Rikkyo University)
• Sonja Petrovic (Penn State University)
• Claudia Polini (University of Notre Dame)
• Jenna Rajchgot (University of Michigan)
• Tim Roemer (Universität Osnabrück)
• Steven Sam (MSRI and UC Berkeley)
• Anne Shiu (University of Chicago)
• Greg Smith (Queen’s University)
• Matteo Varbaro (Università degli Studi di Genova)
• Josephine Yu (Georgia Tech)

Organizer(s)
Winfried Bruns (Universität Osnabrück), Alicia Dickenstein (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina), Takayuki Hibi (Osaka University), Allen Knutson* (Cornell University), and Bernd Sturmfels (University of California, Berkeley)
For more information: http://www.msri.org/web/msri/scientific/workshops/show/-/event/Wm571