Author: Graham Leuschke

The Institute for Advance Study will host a year-long special program in Algebraic Geometry, Fall 2006 through Spring 2007. According to the IAS website, they

don’t want to focus on any single aspect, but rather aim to have many flavors of algebraic geometry and its applications represented, including (not exhaustive list) cohomology theories, motives, moduli spaces, Shimura varieties, complex or p-adic analytic methods and singularities.

School faculty members Pierre Deligne and Phillip Griffiths will organize and lead the program.
During term II there will be a seminar and two workshops on homological mirror symmetry. The first workshop, “Mathematical Foundations of Homological Mirror Symmetry”, will take place during the period January 22-27, 2007; the second, “Applications of Homological Mirror Symmetry” from March 25 to March 31.

The 2006 International Congress of Mathematicians will be held in Madrid (Spain) from 22 to 30 August, 2006. While there are no plenary lectures scheduled in commutative algebra proper, there are several that may be of interest to commutative algebraists, including (at least):

• Jean-Pierre Demailly, “Compact Kähler manifolds and transcendental techniques in algebraic geometry”, and
• Ib Madsen, “Moduli spaces from a topological viewpoint”

There will also be a Section on Algebra.
Finally, there are a number of satellite conferences scheduled around the time of the ICM, including:

• Satellite conference on Algebraic Geometry, Segovia (Spain) August 16-19
• Workshop on Triangulated Categories, Leeds (UK), August 13-19
• CIMPA-School: New Trends in Singularities, Madrid (Spain), August 14-21

The University of Leeds will host a Workshop on Triangulated Categories, 13 – 19 August 2006.
The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers from many parts of mathematics who all use triangulated categories and related structures. Hopefully, the event will promote interactions across traditional borders. Moreover, it should give postgraduate students and post docs the opportunity to learn about exciting modern developments.
Preliminary list of speakers:

• Paul Balmer (Zürich)
• John Greenlees (Sheffield)
• Srikanth Iyengar (Lincoln)
• Bernhard Keller (Paris)
• Henning Krause (Paderborn)
• Ralf Meyer (Münster)
• Amnon Neeman (Canberra)
• Dmitri Orlov (Moscow)
• Jeremy Rickard (Bristol)
• Stefan Schwede (Bonn)

The workshop is (so far) sponsored by the following institutions: Leverhulme Trust, London Mathematical Society, University of Leeds.
Organizing Committee: Thorsten Holm, Peter Jørgensen, Raphaël Rouquier.
More information is available on the conference webpage.

There will be a Summer School & Conference on Valuation Theory and Integral Closures in Commutative Algebra at the University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada, July 3-22, 2006.
Organizers:

• Steven Dale Cutkosky (University of Missouri),
• Sara Faridi (Dalhousie University),
• Franz-Viktor Kuhlmann (University of Saskatchewan),
• Irena Swanson (New Mexico State University)

For more information, please see the website for the Summer School and Conference.

There will be an International Algebra Conference dedicated to the 60th birthday of Luigi Salce, in Padova, Italy, June 16-17, 2006. Invited speakers include:

• David Arnold (Baylor University)
• Alberto Facchini (Università di Padova)
• Marco Fontana (Università di Roma 3)
• Laszlo Fuchs (Tulane University)
• Ruediger Goebel (Duisburg-Essen University)
• Bruce Olberding (New Mexico State University)
• Jan Trlifaj (Charles University Prague)
• Peter Vamos (University of Exeter)
• Roger Wiegand (University of Nebraska)

For more information, including registration and accommodation, see the conference website.

The Istituto Nazionale di Alta Matematica (INdAM) will sponsor a Workshop on Commutative Rings, June 4-10, 2006, in Cortona, Italy. The aim of the Workshop is to bring together researchers in the area of commutative ring theory.
The main emphasis will be on factorization and divisibility properties, decomposition of ideals, class groups; multiplicative ideal and module systems, star and semistar operations, Gabriel-Popescu localizing systems; Prüfer domains and their generalizations; Krull and Mori domains; integer valued polynomials; chain conditions and prime spectra; analytically irreducible one-dimensional rings and their value semigroups; one-dimensional Noetherian rings and algebroid curves.
Young researchers interested in these areas are welcome.
The program for the mornings consists in a series of 45-minute lectures and a few 30-minute invited plenary talks. The afternoons will be devoted to 20-minute talks, some of them in two parallel sessions.
Scientific Committee:

• Valentina Barucci (Università degli Studi La Sapienza ),
• Paul-Jean Cahen (Université Paul Cézanne, Aix-Marseille III),
• Marco Fontana (Università degli Studi Roma Tre ),
• Stefania Gabelli (Università degli Studi Roma Tre ),
• Evan G. Houston (University of North-Carolina, Charlotte).

Organizing Committee:

• Florida Girolami (Università degli Studi Roma Tre ),
• Giampaolo Picozza (Università degli Studi Roma Tre ),
• Francesca Tartarone (Università degli Studi Roma Tre )

For more infomation, see the web page for the Workshop, or contact the organizers directly at cortona2006[AT]mat.uniroma3.it .

In honor of the 60th birthday of Winfried Bruns there will be a conference, June 02 – 03, 2006 at the University of Osnabrück. The conference will focus on his contributions to Commutative Algebra and his influence to this field. Invited speakers are:

• Luchezar L. Avramov (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
• Margherita Barile (Università degli Studi di Bari)
• Ragnar-Olaf Buchweitz (University of Toronto)
• Marc Chardin (C.N.R.S. & Université Pierre et Marie Curie)
• Aldo Conca (Università di Genova)
• Hubert Flenner (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
• Hans-Bjørn Foxby (Københavns Universitet)
• Joseph Gubeladze (San Francisco State University)
• Peter Schenzel (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg)
• Ngô Viêt Trung (Institute of Mathematics, Hanoi)

The conference is being organized by Jürgen Herzog and Tim Römer. For more information see the conference web page.

The Texas Algebraic Geometry Seminar (TAGS) will be held May 20-21 2006 at Texas A&M University. TAGS is a joint seminar with Rice University and The University of Texas. Confirmed speakers include A. Givental, S. Kovacs, S. Kumar, J. Little, L. Matusevich, and J. Weyman. For more information see the TAGS website.
There will also be a preconference workshop on Algebraic Coding Theory, May 17-19. For more details, including information on registration and support, see the TAGS website.

The VIIIth annual Antalya Algebra Days will be held in Antalya, Turkey, May 17–21, 2006. The aim of the Antalya Algebra Days is to support students and young researchers in Turkey by providing a place to interact with other mathematicians from Turkey and abroad.
For more information, see the conference website.

The University of Leeds will host a conference, “Ring Theory: recent progress and applications”, in honor of Professors J. C. McConnell and J. C. Robson, Friday and Saturday May 5-6, 2006. A preliminary speaker list includes

• I. G. Gordon (Glasgow) Representations of rational Cherednik algebras
• L. Levy (Wisconsin) Modules over HNP rings
• R. Rouquier (Leeds) Calabi-Yau algebras
• L. W. Small (San Diego) Noetherian Rings: Before and After McConnell and Robson
• S. P. Smith (Seattle) Stacks and noncommutative algebraic geometry
• A. Smoktunowicz (Edinburgh) Some results on rings with Gelfand-Kirillov dimension less than three
• J. T. Stafford (Michigan) Noncommutative surfaces

For more information, see the conference webpage.