Author: Graham Leuschke

AMS travel grants

From the AMS:

The American Mathematical Society, with support from a private gift, is now accepting applications for travel grants in partial support of attendance by graduate students at one of the fall, 2011 AMS Sectional Meetings. Applications will be accepted through April 15, 2011. Applications for any one of these four sectional meetings will be accepted and considered as a group. Notifications of awards/declines: early June, 2011. This program accepts applications from current full time doctoral students.
Application deadline is April 15, 2011. See the web page for details and instructions.

Macaulay2 at IMA, July 2011

Anton Leykin writes:

Dear Macaulay2 user,
You are invited to apply to participate in a Macaulay2 workshop that will take place at Institute for Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) from Monday, July 25, 2011 through Friday, July 29, 2011. The default arrival/departure is Sunday/Friday (night). Activities will start Monday morning (possibly Sunday night).
The application form is accessible from the IMA website. The application deadline is March 31, 2011.
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Macaulay2 Workshop in Germany, Feb 2011

Amelia Taylor writes:

Dear Macaulay 2 user,
With funding from the Deutsche Forschungs Gemeinschaft (DFG — the German Research Council), we are organizing a Macaulay 2 workshop, from Monday, February 28, 2011 through Friday, March 4, 2011 with Sunday, February 27 and Saturday, March 5 serving as the travel days. The workshop will be at the Courant Center for Higher Order Structures in Göttingen (www.crcg.de). Activities will start first thing Monday morning (possibly Sunday night).
The purpose of the workshop is to bring Macaulay 2 developers together with those who would like to share or develop their skills at writing packages for Macaulay 2 and those interested in developing the corresponding mathematical algorithms. Continue reading “Macaulay2 Workshop in Germany, Feb 2011”

Azumaya and Hochschild; algebra on TV

We’re saddened to note the passing of two giants of twentieth-century algebra, Goro Azumaya and Gerhard Hochschild.
Azumaya, who introduced the idea of an Azumaya algebra and was a professor emeritus at Indiana University, died July 8 at the age of 90. He received his PhD in 1949 from Nagoya University under the direction of Shokichi Iyanaga.
Hochschild, who introduced Hochschild cohomology, died July 8 at the age of 95. He received his PhD in 1941 from Princeton University under the direction of Claude Chevalley. Among the institutions where he worked are the Institute for Advanced Study, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the University of California, Berkeley, where he spent most of his career and from where he retired. In 1979 Hochschild was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. The next year he received the Leroy P. Steele Prize for “his significant work in homological algebra and its applications.”
On a lighter note, did you catch the theorem on an animated TV show last month? (Thanks to Ian Aberbach for this.)

CIMPA Istanbul

CIMPA (Centre International de Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées) and TÜBİTAK (Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey) are sponsoring a Summer School on Commutative Algebra and Applications to Combinatorics and Algebraic Geometry” 12 – 25 September 2010, in İstanbul Turkey.
This is a rescheduling of last year’s CIMPA summer school in Tehran, which was cancelled.
Activities will be divided into two parts. The first week (12-17 September) is a school with 5 instructional courses by Brodmann, Hoa, Miller, Singh, and Teissier. The second week there will be a conference.
Please see the Summer School web page for more information.

EACA: Santiago de Compostela

The XII Encuentro de Álgebra Computacional y Aplicaciones (XII Meeting on Computer Algebra and Applications) will be held in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, July 19-21, 2010.
These meetings are intended to be a meeting opportunity for researchers in Computer Algebra and Symbolic Computation or in its Applications. The Congress will held at the Facultad de Matemáticas of the Universidad de Santiago de Compostela.
The program will include five plenary talks proposed by the scientific committee:

  • Carlos Beltrán, Universidad de Cantabria, España
  • Winfried Bruns, Universität Osnabrück, Alemania
  • Elisa Gorla, Universität Basel, Suiza
  • Evelyne Hubert, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, Francia
  • Antonio Montes, Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña, España

Organizers:

  • Laura Castro Souto, Universidad de A Coruña, España
  • José Luis Freire Nistal, Universidad de A Coruña, España
  • Felipe Gago Couso, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, España
  • Avelino Insua Hermo, Universidad de Vigo, España
  • Manuel Ladra, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, España
  • Gilberto Pérez Vega, Universidad de A Coruña, España

Please see the EACA 2010 web page for more information.

MRC 2010, Snowbird

The AMS will hold a “Mathematics Research Community” (MRC) on Commutative Algebra in Snowbird, Utah, from June 26 to July 2, 2010.
MRCs are designed “to develop and sustain long-lasting cohorts for collaborative research projects in many areas of mathematics. Women and underrepresented minorities are especially encouraged to participate. The AMS will provide a structured program to engage and guide all participants as they start their careers.”
The organizers for this MRC are

  • David Eisenbud (University of California, Berkeley)
  • Craig Huneke (University of Kansas)
  • Mircea Mustaţă (University of Michigan)
  • Claudia Polini (University of Notre Dame)

For more information, including application procedures, see the AMS web page for the MRC.