The local organizer of the recent AMS Sectional Meeting in Lincoln, NE has generously volunteered to host slides from the three commutative-algebra-related Special Sessions at the meeting. Brian Harbourne has posted slides from many of the talks in the “Commutative Algebra“, “Local Commutative Algebra“, and “Algebraic Geometry and Graded Commutative Algebra” sessions. He’s also posted group photos (1, 2).
In addition, we’re hosting some of the material from the special Appreciation Event for Roger and Sylvia Wiegand, titled “The Wiegands’ Algebra Family”. It’s linked on the commalg.org page for the meeting.
Author: Graham Leuschke
Lecturer positions at Sheffield
The School of Mathematics at the University of Sheffield will be hiring 2 lecturers starting from September 1st, 2012. These are permanent positions equivalent to tenured Assistant Professorships in the US. More details can be found on the University website. The ad indicates that the search will focus on candidates in Algebra, Field Theory, Geometry, Mathematical Biology, Probability, Solar Physics or another area linking with existing strengths of the School. The closing date for applications is 24th November 2011. For more information, see the ad or contact Moty Katzman (M.Katzman AT sheffield DOT ac DOT uk).
(Thanks to Moty and Srikanth Iyengar for sending this in.)
Salt Lake City: AMS
The 2011 Fall Western Sectional Meeting of the AMS will be held at the University of Utah, October 22-23, 2011. This meeting will include a Special Session on Algebraic Geometry and a Special Session on Commutative Algebra. See the session web page for more information.
update:The AMS is offering travel grants for this meeting. See this post for more information.
Macaulay2 programmer jobs
From Dan Grayson:
The Macaulay2 free software project seeks one or more part-time programmers. Macaulay2 is a free software computer algebra system designed for research in mathematics and related fields. It contains its own high-level interpreted user language, and the program is written in a combination of C and C++, another language that we created to help write the interpreter that gets translated into C, and the user language. Macaulay2 depends on a number of other free software libraries.
This is a temporary position funded by an NSF contract that terminates in August, 2015, but other funding may be available after that. Applications received by Friday, November 11, 2011 will receive full consideration. […] Pay will be competitive, and will depend on experience. There are several projects available, and there will be others in the future. An applicant may be suitable for all, or for only one.
For more information, including the specific positions available and how to apply, see http://www.macaulay2.com/Jobs/.
Messina: Computational CA and AG
There will be an International School on computational commutative algebra and algebraic geometry 17-29 October 2011 in Messina, Villa Pace, Italy.
The aim of the school is to introduce young mathematicians to recent developments in Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry emphasizing the connection with Combinatorics.
The program will be as follows.
Lectures, 17-21 October:
- Juergen Herzog (University of Essen, Germany): Selected applications of Groebner bases theory in Commutative Algebra.
- Volkmar Welker (University of Marburg, Germany) : Selected applications of Combinatorics in Commutative Algebra.
Lectures, 24-28 October:
- Cristodor Ionescu (Academy of Bucarest, Romania): Algebraic invariants of commutative rings with geometric applications.
- Mustapha Lahyane (University of Michoacan, Mexico): Geometry of Rational Surfaces with a View Toward Coding Theory.
29 October: Workshop
Scientific commitee:
- Juergen Herzog (University of Essen)
- Gaetana Restuccia (University of Messina)
For more information, please contact
- Gaetana Restuccia
E-mail: gaetana.restuccia <-At-> unime.it - Giancarlo Rinaldo
E-mail: giancarlo.rinaldo <-At-> tiscali.it
Website: http://ww2.unime.it/algebra/scws2011.html
Address: Dipartimento di Matematica, Facoltà di Scienze, Università degli studi, Viale F. Stagno D’Alcontres, 31, 98166 Messina.
Route 81 2011
The 21st annual Route 81 Conference on Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry will be held Saturday, September 24, 2011, at Cornell University.
If you would like to give a talk, contact the organizers and also send a title and short abstract. We might need to limit the number of talks to ensure enough time for discussions.
Please let one of the organizers know if you plan to attend, and whether you will be in town friday night for dinner.
For more information, see the conference web site.
Organizers:
— Mike Stillman (mike at math.cornell.edu)
— Irena Peeva (irena at math.cornell.edu)
— Kristine Jones (kej27 at cornell.edu)
Oberwolfach seminar: McKay corresp.
From Igor Burban:
Yuriy Drozd, Gert-Martin Greuel and myself organize a summer school on Cohen-Macaulay modules over surface singularities and McKay Correspondence in Oberwolfach:
http://www.mfo.de/occasion/1147b
The application deadline is September 15. We have already a number of applications, but there are still some free places available and so far there were no applications from North America. Since the commutative algebra community in US is rather big, so I would like to encourage your students interested in this activity to apply. As usual, MFO covers all living expanses but additionally it offers some moderate travel support (about 200 Euro).
The Seminar runs November 20–26, 2011. For more information, see the programme on the MFO website.
Position at South Carolina
The University of South Carolina in Columbia has announced an assistant-professor-level position in Algebra. For more details, see this PDF.
The due date for applications is January 10, 2012.
Algebra position at Nebraska
Srikanth Iyengar writes to let us know that the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has announced an assistant-professor-level position in Algebra. For more details, see this PDF.
The due date for applications is November 30, 2011.
Kiev Summer School: Singularities
The National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and CIMPA will sponsor a Summer School on the topic Singularities: algebra, geometry and applications in Kiev, Ukraine, August 8–19 2011.
The aim of the Summer School is to introduce younger researchers and graduate students to modern trends of the theory of singularities, including both algebraic and geometric aspects, and both classical approaches and the newest ones, related to derived categories, noncommutative geometry, representation theory, tropical geometry, etc. In particular, introductory courses in these areas will be given.
The lecture courses will include:
- Isolated Gorenstein Singularities (R.-O.Buchweitz, University of Toronto)
- Cohen-Macaulay modules over surface singularities (I.Burban, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitaet Bonn)
- Derived categories and tilting with applications to singularities (I.Drozd, Institute of Mathematics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine)
- Lie algebras and singularity theory (A.Elashvili, Mathematical Institute of Georgian Academy of Science)
- Invariants and deformations of hypersurface singularities (G.-M.Greuel, Universitaet Kaiserslautern)
- Poincaré series of filtrations, integrals with respect to the Euler characteristic, and monodromy zeta-functions (S.Gusein-Zade, Moscow State University)
- Vanishing cycles of polynomial functions (M.Tibar, Universite de Lille 1, and D.Siersma, Universiteit Utrecht)
- SINGULAR in the theory of singularities (O.Drozd-Koroleva, Kiev Taras Shevchenko University)
There will also be talks by the participants.
For more information, including a registration form, see the web site for the Summer School.