Author: Graham Leuschke

The 2nd Bluegrass Algebra Conference will be held in Lexington, Kentucky, during the period March 6-8, 2009. The conference continues a well established tradition of commutative algebra and algebraic geometry meetings in the Midwest. In order to enhance the visibility of mathematics among the diverse population of the University of Kentucky students, the conference will be preceded by a lecture aimed at the undergraduate level. The lecture will be delivered by Professor David Cox (Amherst College) and it is scheduled at 4:00 pm on Thursday, March 5, 2009. The official beginning of the conference will be marked by a colloquium talk delivered by Professor Steven Kleiman (MIT), which is scheduled at 4:00 pm on Friday, March 6, 2009. The (incomplete) list of distinguished researchers that have agreed to give a talk during this series of events includes:

• David Cox, Amherst College
• Lawrence Ein, University of Illinois at Chicago
• Steven Kleiman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Andrew Kustin, University of South Carolina
• Sonja Petrovic, University of Illinois at Chicago
• Paul Roberts, University of Utah
• Maria Evelina Rossi, Università di Genova (Italy)
• Hal Schenck, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Javid Validashti, University of Kansas

For more information, please see the conference webpage.

The algebra group of the University of Cologne will hold a Workshop on Representations and Cohomology at Koeln, March 1 to March 6, 2009. The workshop will include lecture series by Eric Friedlander, Srikanth Iyengar and Changchang Xi; lectures by Claire Amiot, Osamu Iyama, Bernhard Keller, Matthias Kuenzer, Steffen Oppermann, Dan Zacharia; and further talks to be announced later.
For more information, including accommodation, registration, and support, please see the web page for the Workshop.

The International Centre for Theoretical Sciences at the Tata Institute for Fundamental Research, India, will host a Conference on ‘Affine Algebraic Geometry’ 22–28 December, 2008. The conference will take place at the Fireflies Intercultural Centre, Bangalore.
The conference website contains a schedule of talks, speakers, and abstracts, as well as information about travel, accommodation, and registration.

There will be a Session on Commutative Algebra at the Pre-ICM International Convention on Mathematical Sciences (ICMS2008) at the Department of Mathematics, University of Delhi during December 18-20, 2008. The Session will be organized by Ayman Badawi.
The Convention is part of “India Mathematics Year 2009”, part of the preparations for the International Congress of Mathematicians in Hyderabad in August 2010.
For more information, please see the web page for the Convention.

The 5th Seminar in Commutative Algebra and Related Topics will be held December 10-11, 2008, in Isfahan, Iran. It is being organized by Javad Asadollahi (Shahre-Kord University and IPM), Bijan Taeri (Isfahan University of Technology), Mohamma Reza Vedadi (Isfahan University of Technology), and Siamak Yassemi (University of Tehran & IPM). More information can be found at the seminar website.

The Mathematics Department at Swansea University (Wales) will host a Workshop on Triangulated Categories, 10-12 December 2008. Speakers will include

• Peter Jørgensen (Newcastle, UK)
• Henning Krause (Paderborn, Germany)
• Matthias Künzer (Aachen, Germany)
• Valery Lunts (Bloomington, USA)
• Robert Marsh (Leeds, UK)
• Teimuraz Pirashvili (Leicester, UK)
• Pierre Schapira (Paris, France)
• Bertrand Toën (Toulouse, France)

The organizers are

• Grigory Garkusha
• Tomasz Brzezinski
• Edwin Beggs

Further details, including information on application and fees can be found on the conference web page

The CMS Winter Meeting 2008, will be held in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada on December 6-8, 2008.
A scientific session in Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry is organized by Sara Faridi (Dalhousie) and Anthony V. Geramita (Queen’s). Its schedule, list of speakers, and abstracts can be found on the conference web page.
There is also a scientific session on Representation Theory of Algebras, which may be of interest to some commalg.org readers. That session is organized by Vlastimil Dlab (Carleton) (Carleton) and Ragnar-Olaf Buchweitz (Toronto), and abstracts are available on the web page.
update 16 December: We’ve posted some photos from the conference. Go see!

The Route 81 Conference on Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry this fall will be at Queen’s University, on the weekend of October 18-19, 2008. Talks will be held on Saturday, October 18. For more details, see the conference website.
update: We’ve posted some photos from the conference. Go see!