Author: Graham Leuschke

The First Latin American School on Algebraic Geometry and Applications / Primera Escuela Latinoamericana de Geometría Algebraica y Aplicaciones (ELGA 2011) will take place in Argentina in August 2011.
There will be one week of Courses, primarily for graduate students, followed by a Workshop/Conference during the second week.
The dates and locations are:
Courses: 1/August – 5/August/2011, Buenos Aires (Argentina).
Conference/Workshop: 8/August – 12/August/2011, Córdoba (Argentina).
This is a CIMPA School an external activity of the ICTP and the 4th. Luis Santaló School (Departamento de Matemática, FCEN-Universidad de Buenos Aires).
ACADEMIC PROGRAM:
First Week: SCHOOL
1/August – 5/August/2011, Buenos Aires (Argentina).
The following courses will be offered:
1) Intersection Theory: Joe Harris (Harvard, USA).
2) Deformation Theory: Robin Hartshorne (Berkeley, USA).
3) Tropical Algebraic Geometry: Diane Maclagan (Warwick, England).
4) Algebraic Geometric Codes: Peter Beelen (Copenhaguen, Denmark).
Second Week: CONFERENCE/WORKSHOP
8/August – 12/August/2011, Córdoba (Argentina).
The program consists of Plenary Lectures and several special Sessions.
Please consult the web page for details and updates.
More information (including the REGISTRATION form) may be found at the web page.
The organizers expect to obtain financial support to cover lodging expenses for invited speakers and selected Latin American participants.
DEADLINE to apply for financial support: May 20, 2011.

The IPM School of Mathematics in Tehran will organize a workshop on Computational Commutative Algebra, July 2–7, 2011. The organizers are Hossein Sabzrou (University of Tehran and IPM) and Rashid Zaare-Nahandi (IASBS, Zanjan).
Speakers:
* Mohamed Barakat, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany: Computational Homological Methods in Commutative Algebra
* Massimo Caboara, University of Pisa, Italy: CoCoA Tutorials
* Jürgen Herzog, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany: Generic Initial Ideals
* Maria Rossi, Università degli Studi di Genova, Italy: Castelnuovo-Mumford Regularity
* Andreas Steenpass, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany: SINGULAR Tutorials
Please see the workshop web site for more information, including the program, registration info, and travel info.

The seventh International School on Computer Algebra: CoCoA 2011 will take place June 6-10, 2011 in Passau (Germany). There will be two intensive courses with CoCoA tutorials, given by Lorenzo Robbiano (“Hilbert Functions”) and Werner M. Seiler (“Involutive Bases”).
Participants should currently be enrolled in a doctoral program somewhere in the world or be recent postdoctoral fellows. Those wishing to participate in the School should submit a letter of application by April 20, 2011.
For more information, see the School web page.

There will be a commutative algebra summer school at MSRI June 6-17 2011. The workshop will involve a combination of theory and symbolic computation in commutative algebra. The lectures are intended to introduce three active areas of research: Boij-Söderberg theory, algebraic statistics, and integral closure. The lectures will be accompanied with tutorials on the computer algebra system Macaulay 2. There is a more detailed description of the program (PDF) on the MSRI website.
The lecturers for the School are Daniel Erman (Stanford University), Irena Swanson (Reed College), and Amelia Taylor (Colorado College). See the page for the Summer School on the MSRI website for more information

Effective Methods in Algebraic Geometry
Stockholm, Sweden, May 30 – June 3, 2011
http://www.math.kth.se/mega2011/
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
MEGA is the acronym for Effective Methods in Algebraic Geometry (and its equivalent in Italian, French, Spanish, German, Russian, etc.), a series of roughly biennial conferences on computational and application aspects of Algebraic Geometry and related topics with very high standards. Previous meetings were held in 1990 (Castiglioncello, Italy), 1992 (Nice, France), 1994 (Santander, Spain), 1996 (Eindhoven, Nederlands), 1998 (St. Malo, France), 2000 (Bath, United Kingdom), 2003 (Kaiserslautern, Germany), 2005 (Porto Conte, Italy), 2007 (Strobl, Austria), and 2009 (Barcelona, Spain). As in previous conferences, we plan to publish selected papers from the conference in a special issue of the Journal of Symbolic Computation.
Proceedings containing a selection of the papers and invited talks presented at previous Mega conferences have been published by Birkhäuser in the series Progress in Mathematics, by the Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra, and the three last editions by the Journal of Symbolic Computation.
MEGA 2011 will be held at the University of Stockholm, Sweden.
Submissions
Submissions should contain recent original research relevant to the topics of the conference, under the form of an Extended Abstract.
The Extended Abstracts should be at least four pages long (plus bibliography) and should contain detailed results, an outline of the proofs and all of the main ideas. Submitted contributions to this conference or related material could be submitted to another conference or journal. Material not submitted simultaneously elsewhere might be given priority.
Acceptance of a submitted contribution means acceptance for oral presentation only. A Call for Papers for the Conference Proceedings will be announced during (and after) the conference.
There will be future calls for Short Communications, Software Demonstrations and Posters.
The submission page will be available at
http://www.math.kth.se/mega2011/ starting on January 3, 2011.
Important Dates
Deadline for Submissions ……………………..: February 8,2011
Deadline for Submissions of Software Presentations : March 6, 2011
Notification of acceptance/rejection …………..: March 16, 2011
Deadline for Early Registration ……………….: April 4, 2011
Conference Topics
Effective Methods and Theoretical and Practical Complexity Issues in: Commutative Algebra, Geometry, Real Geometry, Algebraic Number Theory, Algebraic Geometry, Arithmetic Geometry and related fields: Algebraic Analysis of Differential Equations, Differential Geometry, Associative Algebras, Group Theory, Algebraic Groups and Lie
Algebras, Algebraic and Differential Topology, as well as applications in these fields.
Confirmed Invited Speakers
Johannes Buchmann (Darmstadt) Cryptograpy
Guy Casale (Rennes) Differential algebra
Anne Frühbis-Krüger (Hannover) Algorithmic resolution of singularities
Anton Leykin (Georgia Tech) Numerical Algebraic Geometry
Monique Laurent (Amsterdam) Real algebraic geometry
Diane Maclagan (Warwick) Tropical Algebraic Geometry
Pablo Parrilo (MIT) Convex algebraic geometry
Kristian Ranestad (Oslo) Applications of algebraic geometry to semidefinite programming, optimization and statistics
Duco van Straten (Mainz) Applications to mathematical physics
Executive Committee
Wolfram Decker (Kaiserslautern), Alicia Dickenstein (Buenos Aires), Sandra di Rocco (Stockholm), Mikael Passare (Stockholm), Ragni Piene (Oslo), Marie-Francoise Roy (Rennes) Michael Singer (Raleigh), Carlo Traverso (Pisa).
Local Arrangements Committee
Mats Boij (KTH), Petter Brändén (SU), Sandra Di Rocco (KTH), Mikael Passare (SU), Benjamin Young (Berkeley/KTH), Christine Jost (SU)
Advisory Board
Coordinator: Carlo Traverso (Pisa)
Isabel Bermejo (La Laguna, Spain), Arjeh Cohen (Eindhoven,Netherlands), Carlos D’Andrea (Barcelona, Spain), James H. Davenport (Bath, UK), Wolfram Decker (Kaiserslautern, Germany), Alicia Dickenstein (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Ioannis Z. Emiris (Athens, Greece), Jean-Charles Faugere (Paris-Rocquencourt, France), Andre Galligo (Nice, France), Vladimir Gerdt (Dubna, Russia), Patrizia Gianni (Pisa, Italy), Marc Giusti (Paris, France), Laureano Gonzalez-Vega (Santander, Spain), Gert-Martin Greuel (Kaiserslautern, Germany), Dima Y. Grigoriev (Rennes, France), Herwig Hauser (Innsbruck, Austria), Mark van Hoeij (Tallahassee, FL, USA), Evelyne Hubert (Sophia Antipolis, France), Rimvydas Krasauskas (Vilnius, Lithuania), Daniel Lazard (Paris, France), Gunter Malle (Kaiserslautern, Germany), Bernard Mourrain (Sophia Antipolis, France), Luis M. Pardo (Santander, Spain), Ragni Piene (Oslo, Norway), Tomas Recio (Santander, Spain), Lorenzo Robbiano (Genova, Italy), Marie-Françoise Roy (Rennes, France), Massimiliano Sala (Dublin, Ireland), Josef Schicho (Linz, Austria), Michael Singer (Raleigh, NC, USA), Pablo Solerno (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Frank Sottile (TEXAS A&M, USA), Nobuki Takayama (Kobe, Japan), Franz Winkler (Linz, Austria)

There will be a one-day conference on resolutions and closely related topics at Cornell Univeristy on Saturday, May 7 2011. The conference is organized by Irena Peeva.
Current List of Lecturers (ordered alphabetically by first name):

• Alex Tchernev (Albany)
• Alexandra Seceleanu (Illinois)
• Frank Moore (Cornell)
• Gwyn Whieldon (Cornell)
• Hamidreza Rahmati (Syracuse)
• Ines Henriques (Riverside)
• Jeffrey Mermin (Oklahoma State)
• Ri-Xiang Chen (Cornell)
• Timothy Clark (Loyola)

Each talk will be 30 minutes.

There will be a three day workshop on matrix factorizations at Bielefeld University on May 6-8. On the first day, there will be introductory talks by Igor Burban on the representation theory of matrix factorizations, Wolfgang Ebeling on the singularity theory of hypersurfaces, Daniel Murfet on the Buchweitz’s equivalent descriptions of stable derived category, and Ragnar Buchweitz on the theorem of Orlov relating graded maximal Cohen-Macaulay modules to the category of singularities. The next two days will consist of research talks. We hope these will demonstrate the wide range of topics in current mathematical research that relate to matrix factorizations.

For a complete list of speakers, a reference list, and other information on the workshop, see the website for the workshop.

There will be a mini-conference at the University of Kansas on May 5-6, 2011, on several homological aspects of (non)commutative algebra.
There will be four talks, by Dave Jorgensen, Ryo Takahashi, Petter Bergh, and Liana Sega. The conference is organized by Hailong Dao and Olgur Celikbas. For more information, please see the conference web page.