Author: Graham Leuschke

30th Arkansas Spring Lecture Series

The 30th annual Arkansas Spring Lecture Series in the Mathematical Sciences, at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, will be held April 14 – 16, 2005. The topic for this year’s Lecture Series is “Recent Developments in Tight Closure.” The principal lecturers are

  • Mel Hochster (University of Michigan)
  • Craig Huneke (University of Kansas).
  • Invited speakers include
  • Holger Brenner (University of Sheffield)
  • Nobuo Hara (Tohoku University)
  • Gennady Lyubeznik (University of Minnesota)
  • Anurag Singh (Georgia Tech University)
  • Shunsuke Takagi (Kyushu University).

There will also be a public lecture by Mel Hochster, “Women in Mathematics”.
For more information, consult the conference website.

Northcott

The London Times of Monday April 11th announces the sad news that Professor Douglas Geoffrey Northcott FRS, who was Professor of Pure Mathematics at the University of Sheffield from 1952 until his retirement in 1982, and whose name is well known to many commutative algebraists, died on Friday April 8th, 2005, aged 88 years. Here is a link to the obituary in the Times. Thanks to Rodney Sharp for passing along this sad news.

Workshop on Cohen-Macaulay Rings at Ovidius University of Constanta

From April 5 to April 10, 2005, there will be a Workshop on Cohen-Macaulay Rings and Related Structures at Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, Ovidius University of Constanta, Romania. The workshop is organized by Department of Mathematics, University of Kaiserslautern, supported by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, in cooperation with Institute of Mathematics “Simion Stoilow” of the Romanian Academy , Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, Bucharest University, Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, Ovidius University, Constanta, and Romanian Mathematical Society.
For more information, including a list of organizers and main speakers, see the Workshop web page.

Ottawa Workshop on Resolutions, Inverse Systems, and Coinvariants

The Fields Institute is sponsoring the 2nd Workshop on Resolutions, Inverse Systems, and Coinvariants at the University of Ottawa, January 13-15, 2005. The Workshop brings together Algebraic Combinatorialists and Commutative Algebraists to discuss relationships between special cases of the notion of Macaulay’s inverse systems in Commutative Algebra, and coinvariant spaces studied in Algebraic Combinatorics and Representation Theory.
Invited speakers include François Bergeron (UQAM), Nantel Bergeron (York), Tony Geramita (Queen’s), and Christophe Reutenauer (UQAM).
For more information, please see the Fields Institute’s web page for the Workshop, or contact one of the organizers: Riccardo Biagioli (UQAM), Sara Faridi (University of Ottawa), or Mercedes Rosas (York University).

Photos from Graz and Montreal

We’ve posted several photos from the recent International Symposium on Commutative Rings and Monoids that was held in Graz, Austria, back in October 2004. Thanks to Karl Kattchee for the great pictures. Go see!
Also, Adam Van Tuyl has posted a great number of photos that Leslie Roberts took at the recent Commutative Algebra Session at the Montreal meeting of the Canadian Mathematics Society. Thanks, Adam and Leslie! Go see!

Atlanta Joint Meetings

Srikanth Iyengar, Anurag Singh, Sean Sather-Wagstaff, and Carolyn Yackel will organize a Special Session on Commutative Algebra at the annual Joint Meetings of the AMS and MAA, in Atlanta, GA, January 5-8, 2005.
For more information, see the AMS page for the Session.
There will also be a Special Session on D-modules, organized by Uli Walther and Steve Sperber. For more information, see the AMS page for the Session, or for the meeting.