Author: Graham Leuschke

The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) is organizing an Advanced School and Workshop on Local Rings and Local Study of Algebraic Varieties, to be held from May 31 to June 11 2010, in Trieste, Italy. It will be directed by C. Huneke, M.-E. Rossi, Le D.T., Ngo Viet Trung, and R. Ramakrishnan (local organizer).
For more information as it appears, please see the web page for the School.

There will be an “Incontro Nazionale di Algebra Moderna”, which we think means “National Meeting of Modern Algebra”, in Rome, Italy, May 24-28, 2010.
The organizers are Aldo Conca (Genova), Elisabetta Strickland (Roma “Tor Vergata”), and Giuseppe Valla (Genova). Senior speakers include:

• Velleda Baldoni (Roma “Tor Vergata”)
• Francesco Brenti (Roma “Tor Vergata”)
• Pietro Corvaja (Udine)
• Corrado De Concini (Roma “La Sapienza” )
• Lino Di Martino (Milano Bicocca)
• Antonio Giambruno (Palermo)
• Alberto Facchini (Padova)
• Marco Fontana (Roma TRE)
• Andrea Lucchini (Padova)
• Claudia Menini (Ferrara)
• Claudio Procesi (Roma “La Sapienza”)
• Carlo Scoppola (L’Aquila)

For more information, please see the INdAM web page.

The Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach will be holding an Oberwolfach Seminar on Representations of Finite Groups: Local Cohomology and Support, May 23rd – May 29th, 2010. They have issued a call for applications to participate, including a short summary of previous work and interest, by April 1st, 2010. Please see the web page for the Seminar for more information.

The Departments of Mathematics of Università degli Studi “Roma Tre” and Università degli Studi “Sapienza” will sponsor “Commutative Ring Theory Days”, May 20-21 2010 in Rome, Italy. There will be an additional pre-session on the afternoon of May 19.
The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers in the area of commutative ring theory, with a certain emphasis on young people. The main themes of the conference are:

• factorization and divisibility properties, decomposition of ideals, class groups;
• multiplicative ideal and module systems, star and semistar operations;
• intersections of valuation domains (Prüfer domains and their generalizations);
• analytically irreducible one-dimensional rings and their value semigroups
• integer-valued polynomials.

For more information, including registration information and deadlines, please see the web page for the conference.

This year’s Midwest Algebra, Geometry and their Interactions Conference (MAGIC’10) will be held at the University of Notre Dame, April 23-25, 2010. The organizers are:

• Nero Budur (University of Notre Dame)
• Alberto Corso (University of Kentucky)
• Juan Migliore (University of Notre Dame)
• Claudia Polini (University of Notre Dame)

The conference continues a well established tradition of commutative algebra and algebraic geometry meetings in the Midwest, among which we single out MAGC97 at the University of Notre Dame in 1997, the first Bluegrass Algebra Conference at the University of Kentucky in 2003, the Lipman-Fest at Purdue University in 2004, MAGIC’05 at the University of Notre Dame in 2005, the Purdue-UIC Workshop at Purdue University in 2006, the Hartshorne’s 70th birthday conference at the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2008, the second Bluegrass Algebra Conference at the University of Kentucky in 2009, and the Libgober’s 60th birthday conference at the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2009.
Young Mathematicians are especially encouraged to attend. There is a limited amount of funding provided by the following sources:

• Department of Matematics (Notre Dame)
• College of Science (Notre Dame)
• Graduate School (Notre Dame)
• Special Algebra Meetings in the Midwest grant (NSF DMS-0753127).

A registration page and further information will be shortly available at the (soon to be released) meeting website.

The First International Conference on Mathematics and Statistics, AUS-ICMS’10, will be held March 18-21, 2010. Organized by The Department of Mathematics & Statistics, College of Arts and Sciences, American University of Sharjah, and co-sponsored by the American Mathematical Society, the aim of the conference is to bring together researchers and scientists working in the fields of pure mathematics, applied mathematics, mathematics education and statistics. The proposed technical program of the conference will include contributed talks and keynote lectures.
The Algebra Section will include

• Algebras and Coalgebras organized by Robert Wisbauer and Jawad Abuhlail
• Commutative Algebra organized by Ayman Badawi and Ali Jaballah

For more information, see the Algebra Section web page, or send email to Ayman Badawi (abadawi AT aus.edu).

The 2010 International Conference on Algebra and Applications (ICAA 2010) will be held 20-22 February, 2010, in Aligarh, India. The purpose of the conference is to contribute to the development of Algebra and to bring together the Algebraists from all over the world working in the related areas to present their researches, to exchange new ideas, to discuss challenging issues, to foster future collaborations and to expose young researchers.
For a complete list of invited speakers, instructions on how to submit an abstract, and registration information, see the conference web site.
(Update: Conference website address has changed.)