Author: Graham Leuschke

The Department of Algebra and the Mathematical Research Institute of the University of Sevilla (IMUS) will host an International School on Combinatorics “Pilar Pisón-Casares”, January 25-30, 2010, in Sevilla (Spain).
The School is addressed to PhD students and young post-doc researchers working on Algebraic Geometry, Combinatorics, Commutative Algebra and related areas, introducing the participants to research, beginning from a basic level with a view towards the applications and to the most recent results.
LECTURERS:

• – Klaus Altmann. Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
• – Ezra Miller. Duke University, USA
• – Mercedes H. Rosas. Universidad de Sevilla, Spain

ORGANIZERS:

• – Alberto Castaño Domínguez (Universidad de Sevilla)
• – María Cruz Fernández Fernández (Universidad de Sevilla)
• – Jaime Lugo Gómez (Universidad de Valladolid)
• – José Navarro Garmendia (Universidad de Extremadura)

Scientific Committee:

• – Antonio Campillo López (Universidad de Valladolid)
• – Francisco J. Castro Jiménez (Universidad de Sevilla)
• – Ignacio Ojeda Martínez de Castilla (Universidad de Extremadura)

WITH THE COLLABORATION OF:

• – Facultad de Matematicas. Universidad de Sevilla
• – Departamento de Matematicas. Universidad de Extremadura
• – Departamento AGT. Universidad de Valladolid
• – Research Group on Computational Methods in D-modules
• – Research Group GADAC
• – Research Group SINGACOM

Further information at the School web page.

The seventh annual “Combinatorial Algebra meets Algebraic Combinatorics” meeting will be held at Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada, January 22 – 24, 2010. The organizers are

• Francois Bergeron (UQAM, Montreal)
• Sara Faridi (Dalhousie University)
• Tony Geramita (Queen’s University and University of Genoa)
• Mike Roth (Queen’s University)

This meeting is a continuation of previous annual workshops focusing on the interplay between commutative algebra (particularly, resolutions and inverse systems) and algebraic combinatorics (the representation theory of symmetric groups). Invited speakers include:

• Nantel Bergeron (York University, Toronto)
• Mats Boij (KTH, Stockholm)
• Jennifer Morse (Drexel University, Philadelphia)
• Christophe Reutenauer (UQAM, Montreal)

Contributed talks are welcome.
Some funds are available to assist students and postdocs with travel costs.
Send inquiries to Sara Faridi (faridi AT mathstat.dal.ca).
For more information, see the meeting website.

There will be (at least) three Special Sessions of interest to commutative algebraists at the Western Section Meeting of the AMS in Riverside, CA, November 7-8, 2009:

• John Baez and Julie Bergner will organize a Special Session on Homotopy Theory and Higher Algebraic Structures.
• Ken Goodearl, Dan Rogalski, and James Zhang will organize a Special Session on Interactions Between Algebraic Geometry and Noncommutative Algebra.
• Frauke Bleher, Birge Huisgen-Zimmerman, and Markus Schmidmeier will organize a Special Session on Representations of Finite Dimensional Algebras.

Please see the AMS web pages for the Sessions for more information.

The 2009 Fall Southeastern AMS Meeting will be held in Boca Raton, FL, October 30 – November 1, 2009. There will be at least two three special sessions of interest to the commalg community at this meeting:

• Special Session on Commutative Ring Theory, organized by Alan Loper and Lee Klingler. See the AMS website for this session for more information.
• Special Session on Homological Aspects of Module Theory, organized by Andy Kustin, Sean Sather-Wagstaff, and Janet Vassilev. See the webpage maintained by the organizers or the AMS website for the session for more information.
• Special Session on Graded Resolutions, organized by Chris Francisco and Irena Peeva. See the AMS website for the session for more information.

There will be a workshop, sponsored by AIM, October 26 to October 30, 2009, devoted to developing the following three packages for Macaulay 2.

1. Algebraic statistics
2. Numerical algebraic geometry
3. Toric algebraic geometry

These three topics are all very active areas of research in computational algebra and algebraic geometry and are linked in surprising ways which lends them nicely to be the three packages of focus for this workshop.
For more information on the packages, the goals of the workshop and the application to attend, please go to the workshop web page.

There will be (at least) three Special Sessions of interest to commutative algebraists at the 2009 Fall Eastern Section Meeting of the AMS in University Park, PA, October 24-25, 2009:

• Amanda Beecher and Alex Tchernev will organize a Special Session on Combinatorial and Homological Aspects of Commutative Algebra.
• Janet Striuli and Jooyoun Hong will organize a Special Session on Commutative Algebra and applications to Algebraic geometry. A website maintained by the organizers can be found here.
• Sunil Chebolu and Keir Lockridge will organize a Special Session on New trends in triangulated categories and their associated cohomology theories.

Please see the AMS web pages for the Sessions for more information.

The 2009 Fall Central Section Meeting of the AMS will be held in Waco, TX, October 16-18, 2009. There will be a Special Session on Commutative Algebra: Module and Ideal Theory organized by Lars W. Christensen, Louiza Fouli and David Jorgensen. For more information on the session, the the AMS website for the session.

The 19th Annual Route 81 Conference on Algebraic Geometry and Commutative Algebra will take place on Saturday, October 17, 2009, hosted by the Mathematics Department of Syracuse University. The conference is organized by Steven P. Diaz, Graham Leuschke, and Claudia Miller.
The deadline to request a speaking slot is Friday, September 11. The schedule will be published shortly thereafter.
For more information, see the conference web page.