Author: Graham Leuschke

GSU-USC Commutative Algebra Seminar March 2007

Georgia State University and the University of South Carolina will be organizing a joint Seminar in Commutative Algebra, March 17-18, 2007 in Atlanta. The seminar represents a collaborative effort of commutative algebraists at the two universities to increase exposure of their research area in the South-East through periodic meetings. Everyone interested is welcome to attend.
The seminar will meet on Saturday March 17, 2007 (10am-5pm) and on Sunday March 18 (10am-12pm). A limited number of contributed talks will be accepted.
Invited speakers:

  • Catalin Ciuperca (North Dakota State University)
  • Neil Epstein (University of Michigan)
  • Ananth Hariharan (University of Kansas)
  • Andy Kustin (University of South Carolina)
  • Sandra Spiroff (Seattle University)
  • Adela Vraciu (University of South Carolina)

A limited number of contributed talks will be accepted. For more information, see the web page for the seminar, or contact one of the organizers, Florian Enescu or Yongwei Yao.

Serre on How to Write Mathematics Badly

We highly recommend this video of Jean-Pierre Serre, speaking on “How to Write Mathematics Badly”. The talk is apparently from the Harvard “Basic Notions” seminar in 2003, and is both educational and hilarious.
We recently learned of the existence of a wiki for academic positions in mathematics. It contains information about the status of faculty searches at various institutions posted anonymously by folks on the job market.
Speaking of jobs, we’ve learned from John Greenlees (email: J.Greenlees@sheffield.ac.uk) of a postdoctoral position to work on the project `Orientability and complete intersections for ring spectra’. The position starts Summer 2007 and has not been posted on the EIMS site. More information can be found at John Greenlees’ website or at one of the following job sites: http://www.shef.ac.uk/jobs/ or http://www.jobs.ac.uk/. The closing date is 04 April.

Workshop honoring Eisenbud at MSRI in April

We’ve updated our announcement for the MSRI Workshop on Advances in Algebra and Geometry in April, to point out that the Workshop coincides with David Eisenbud’s sixtieth birthday and his imminent retirement as Director of MSRI. Thus one goal of the Workshop will be to honor David’s many and varied lifetime contributions to the vitality of the mathematical sciences.
Also, Holger Brenner has alerted us to a petition for guaranteed public access to publicly-funded research results that has (as of 04 Feb) almost 17,000 signatures.

Third Seminar in Commutative Algebra and Related Topics, Tehran

There will be a special session in Commutative Algebra at the School of Mathematics in IPM on Jan. 10-11, 2007. The goal of this session is to bring together many of the people in Iran who are working in Commutative Algebra and related areas, to introduce students and young researchers the topics of recent research.
The session is organized by Hasan Haghighi and Siamak Yassemi. For more information, see the IPM web page for the Seminar.

"Rings and Categories of Modules", in honor of Kent Fuller

The Departamento de Matemáticas, Universidad de Murcia, and the Dipartimento di Matematica Pura ed Applicata, Università di Padova, will sponsor a conference, “Rings and Categories of Modules”, in honor of Kent Fuller, December 14-16, 2006. The conference will take place at Bressanone (Italy). The scientific program will include six main lectures, by (according to the website) Walter Burgess (Ottawa), Robert Colby (Cedar Rapids), Luis Gomez Pardo (Santiago de Compostela), Birge Huisgen-Zimmermann (Santa Barbara), Idun Reiten (Trondheim), and Dan Zacharia (Syracuse).
For more information, see the conference website.

KRAW photos and new algebra journal

Sean Sather-Wagstaff has posted some photos from the recent Kent Regional Algebra Weekend. Thanks, Sean!
We learned from Ragnar-Olaf Buchweitz of the existence of a new journal of interest to commutative algebraists: Algebra & Number Theory. According to the web page, “Algebra & Number Theory publishes high-quality original research articles in algebra and number theory, interpreted broadly, for example including algebraic and arithmetic geometry. […] The policies of Algebra & Number Theory are set by the editorial board – a group of working mathematicians – rather than by a profit-oriented company, so they will remain friendly to mathematicians’ interests.” We at commalg.org applaud this effort!