Author: Graham Leuschke

There will be two sessions of interest to commutative algebraists at the 2006 Spring Central Sectional Meeting of the AMS at the University of Notre Dame, April 8–9, 2006.

• Juan Migliore (Notre Dame) and Uwe Nagel (Kentucky ) will organize a Special Session on Combinatorial Algebraic Geometry
• Claudia Polini (Notre Dame), Alberto Corso (Kentucky) and Bernd Ulrich (Purdue) will organize a Special Session on Commutative Algebra

For more information, see the AMS web page for the Meeting.

There will be a Winter School on Commutative Algebra at the Institut de Matemàtica of the Universitat de Barcelona in Barcelona, Spain from January 30 to February 3 of 2006.
The Winter School will consist of three lecture series  surveying and highlighting recent developments in Commutative Algebra and Applications and some additional one-hour-lectures.
The lecture series will include 4 one-and-half-hour-lectures on the following topics:

• Tight closure and vector bundles, by Holger Brenner (University of Sheffield)
• Combinatorics and Commutative Algebra, by Juergen Herzog (Mathematik Universitat Duisburg-Essen)
• On desingularization theorems, by Orlando Villamayor (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)

For more information, contact one of the organizers (G. Colomé, T. Cortadellas, J. Elias, or S. Zarzuela) or see the Winter School web page.

The third in a series of workshops that began at Kingston in 2004 and continued at Ottawa in 2005, the Workshop on Combinatorial Inverse Systems will be held at the Fields Institute in Toronto, January 13-16, 2006.
The main achievement of the past events has been that they have established an on-going dialog between two separate research communities who had been using similar techniques to study different mathematical problems. The two groups are algebraic combinatorialists working on the representation theory of symmetric groups, and commutative algebraists studying resolutions and inverse systems.
The connections between these topics were highlighted in a successful meeting that took place in January 2004 at Queen’s University in Kingston. In this meeting, through a series of expository lectures by Tony Geramita and François Bergeron, among others, it was made evident that interesting special cases of the notion of Macaulay’s inverse systems of Commutative Algebra are essentially the same objects as coinvariants spaces studied in Algebraic Combinatorics and Representation Theory.
This year’s meeting will continue in the same tradition. It will be organized by

• Sara Faridi (Dalhousie)
• Christophe Hohlweg (Fields Institute), and
• Mike Zabrocki (York).

The main speakers are:

• François Bergeron (UQAM)
• Nantel Bergeron (York University)
• Mats Boij (KTH, Stockholm)
• Tony Geramita (Queen’s Univerity)
• Christophe Reutenauer (UQAM)

For more information, see the Workshop web page2006-01-13 16:00

The Institute of Mathematics of the Vietnamese Academy of Science and Technology will host the CIMPA School on Commutative Algebra, 26 December 2005 — 7 January 2006, in Hanoi, Vietnam.
Organized by M. Chardin (University of Paris VI-VII, France), D. Eisenbud (MSRI, Berkeley, USA), N. T. Cuong, L. T. Hoa, and N.V. Trung (Institute of Mathematics, Hanoi, Vietnam), the aim of the School is to introduce mathematicians from developing countries to some fundamental techniques and recent developments in Commutative Algebra and to promote the collaboration between mathematicians of different developing and developed countries.
Host Institution: Institute of Mathematics, Vietnamese Academy of Science and Technology
Address: 18 Hoang Quoc Viet, 10307 Hanoi, Vietnam
Scientific program: The school will be divided into two parts. The first week (26 – 30.12.05) is a school with 4 instructional courses on the following topics:

• Local cohomology (M. Brodmann)
• Toric rings and varieties (D. Cox)
• Finite free resolutions (J. Herzog)
• Blow-up algebras (B. Ulrich)

The second week (3-6 January) is devoted to an international conference. Besides invited lectures on recent development in Commutative Algebra, there will be opportunities for mathematicians from developing countries to present their research works.
Participation: The school and the conference are open to all mathematicians. The local organizers will arrange for visa and accommodation. Requests for participation should be sent to the local coordinator before September 15, 2005. Conference fees: 100 USD.
Support: There are a limited number of grants which cover travel and living expenses for mathematicians from developing countries. Applications form can be found at the CIMPA website and should be submitted before September 15, 2005 to the address:
CIMPA, “Le Du Bellay”, Bât B, 4 avenue Joachim, F-06100 Nice, France.
Address: 18 Hoang Quoc Viet, 10307 Hanoi, Vietnam
Local coordinator: L. T. Hoa
Telephone: 0084-4-8361317 (Ext. 202)
Fax: 0084-4-7564303
Email address for all correspondences: cimpa@math.ac.vn
For more information, see the CIMPA 2005 web page.

The 12th Union College Mathematics Conference will be held on December 3-4, 2005. The conference topics will be algebraic topology, category theory and commutative algebra.
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There will be plenary lectures of interest to the entire conference audience, by John Baez, David Cox and Jesper Grodal. In addition, there will be shorter contributed talks in parallel sessions. Anyone interested in giving such a talk should contact one of the organizers. The deadline for submission of abstracts is November 11th, and for registration is November 18th.
The meeting will begin with an evening reception on Friday, December 2, and end on Sunday afternoon. For more information about the conference, including registration, submission of abstracts, housing and transportation, please visit our conference website.
Union College is centrally located in New York’s capital district, about 10 miles from the Albany International Airport, easily accessible by train from NYC, and just 3 to 4 hours by car from NYC, Boston and Montreal.
CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS:

• Category Theory: Susan Niefield
• Algebraic Topology: Brenda Johnson and Kathryn Lesh
• Commutative Algebra: Pedro Teixeira and David Vella

There will be an International Conference on Algebra, in Honor of Adalbert Bovdi’s 70th Birthday, November 18-23, 2005, in the Institute of Mathematics, at the University of Debrecen (Hungary).
In addition to an extensive program of plenary talks, several sessions of contributed talks are planned.
The registration deadline is October 10, 2005.
The registration fee of this conference is 75 EUR. This amount covers the conference abstracts and an excursion to Eger. This town is the center of one of the historic wine-growing regions of Hungary. A lunch and a visit to a wine-cellar is covered by the registartion fee.
For more information, see the conference website.

There will be a special session in Commutative Algebra at the School of Mathematics in IPM on Nov. 16-17, 2005. 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 tentative plan is to have some talks of 30 minutes each.
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Confirmed speakers include:

• Ahmad Abbasi (Guilan University)Local-Global principle for generalized local cohomology modules
• Alireza Abdollahi (Isfahan University)A combinatorial condition on an infinite ring to be commutative
• Javad Asadollahi (Shahrekord University & IPM)A generalization of Auslander’s delta invariant using injectives
• Mahmood Behboodi (Isfahan University of Technology)Classical prime modules over commutative rings
• Mohammad Taghi Dibaei (Teacher Training University & IPM)Local cohomology and the intersection Theorem
• Kamran Divaani-Aazar (Alzahra University & IPM)Associated primes of local cohomology modules of weakly Laskerian modules
• Hassan Haghighi (K.N. Toosi University)The role of embedded components in the intersection of algebraic varieties
• Kazem Khashyarmanesh (Mashhad University)Associated primes of graded components of generalized local cohomology modules
• Amir Mafi (Arak University)Some results of local cohomology modules
• Hamidreza Maimani (Shahid Rajaee University & IPM)Zero divisor graph of a commutative semigroup
• Alireza Naghipour (Shahre-Kord University)Superficial elements for modules
• Reza Naghipour (University of Tabriz)Local cohomology modules and integral closure
• Mohammad Reza Pournaki (Sharif University of Technology & IPM)Tensor products of vector spaces
• Hossein Sabzrou (IPM)Scarf toric varieties
• Shokrollah Salarian (Isfahan University & IPM)Complete cohomology and Gorensteinness of schemes
• Reza Sazeedeh (Oromieh University & IPM)Hilbert-Kirby polynomial and graded local cohomology modules
• Massoud Tousi (Shahid Beheshti University & IPM)Different kinds of purity
• Siamak Yassemi (University of Tehran & IPM)A Theorem of Bass: past, present, and future
• Rahim Zaare-Nahandi(University of Tehran)Seminormality of generic projections with canonical forms
• Rashid Zaare-Nahandi (IASBS)Domination ideals of a graph

For more information, see the seminar webpage.

Chris Francisco (Missouri) and Irena Peeva (Cornell) will organize a Special Session on Resolutions at the AMS Western Section Meeting in Eugene, OR, November 12-13, 2005.
For more information, see the AMS web page for the session.