Author: Graham Leuschke

At the CMS meeting in Montreal, Quebec on December 11-13, 2004, there will be a special session in Commutative Algebra. One of the goals of the session is to bring together many of the people in Canada who are working in commutative algebra and related areas (e.g., algebraic combinatorics, algebraic geometry, invariant theory). The tentative plan is to have approximately 20 talks, of about 20 minutes each. There will be 10 minutes between talks for questions and discussion. A number of slots have been left open for other talks, especially by graduate students and recent PhDs. If you are interested in giving a talk, please contact one of the organizers listed below.

• Sara Faridi (LaCIM, University of Quebec at Montreal, faridi@math.uqam.ca)
• Sindi Sabourin (York University, lsabouri@yorku.ca)
• Will Traves (US Naval Academy, traves@usna.edu)
• Adam Van Tuyl (Lakehead University, avantuyl@sleet.lakeheadu.ca)

More information, including confirmed speakers, is on the session web page.
update: There are photos!

The 16th Seminar on Algebra at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, Zanjan, Iran, will take place 27-29 November 2004.
This seminar is one of the serial specific annual seminars of the Iranian Mathematical Society.  For more information and registration see the conference website.

The Red Raider Symposium 2004, “Invariant Theory in Perspective”, will be held November 11-13 2004, at Texas Tech University, Lubbock TX.
Confirmed speakers include Roger Howe, Yale University; Peter Olver, University of Minnesota; Karen Parshall, University of Virginia; Vladimir Popov, Moscow State University; David Wehlau, Royal Military College; Clarence W. Wilkerson, Purdue University; Anne Shepler, University of North Texas; and Sarah Witherspoon, Texas A&M University.
For more information please see the web page for the Symposium.

The sixh annual KUMUNU meeting at the University of Kansas will be held on October 30th, 2004. The speakers are:

• Sean Sather-Wagstaff (U. Nebraska),
• Mrinal Das (U. Kansas),
• Liana Sega (Michigan State U.),
• Greg Piepmeyer (U. Nebraska),
• Qi Zhang (U. Missouri), and
• Chris Francisco (U. Missouri).

More information, including links to maps, housing information, etc., is available on the KUMUNU web page.

On the occasion of Gert-Martin Greuel‘s 60th birthday, there will be a conference “Singularities and Computer Algebra”, October 18-20, 2004, at Kaiserslautern University.
The conference is organized by Christoph Lossen and Gerhard Pfister.
For information see the conference website.

At the 2004 Fall Western Section meeting of the American Mathematical Society, in Albuquerque, NM, October 16-17, 2004, Hirotachi Abo and Chris Peterson will organize a Special Session in Algebraic Geometry.
For more information, please see the AMS page for the meeting.

The 999th Sectional Meeting of the AMS will take place in Nashville, TN, October 16-17, 2004. There will be two Special Sessions related to Commutative Algebra:
Juan Migliore and Uwe Nagel will organize a session on Algebraic Geometry and Commutative Algebra, and
Florian Enescu and Adela Vraciu will organize a session on Local and Homological Algebra.
Please see the AMS page for the meeting for more information.

This year’s Route 81 Conference on Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry will be at Cornell University, on the weekend of October 2-3, 2004.
This year the route 81 conference is in honor of Graham Evans’ retirement. Many of Graham’s co-authors, friends, and students are planning on attending.
There will be talks on Saturday, October 2, and Sunday morning, October 3, and a social hike/walk on Sunday afternoon, for people who can stay until Monday.
For more information, including information on lodging (update: also a schedule and list of speakers), see the conference web page. Also see the Workshop on Resolutions (for young researchers).

There will be a Workshop on Resolutions for young researchers at Cornell University, September 30 — October 4, 2004. The workshop is in conjunction with the Route 81 2004 conference. Please see the workshop web page for more information (update: the web page now includes a schedule and list of speakers, in addition to lodging information and directions).

From September 29th to October 1st, 2004, the Institute of Mathematics at the University of Graz, in Austria, will host an International Symposium on Commutative Rings and Monoids, in honor of Professor Franz Halter-Koch.
Topics for the Symposium include

• multiplicative ideal theory
• non-unique factorizations
• direct sum decomposition of modules
• integer-valued polynomials
• Prüfer rings and their generalizations

Main lectures will be given by

• Daniel D. Anderson (University of Iowa)
• Marco Fontana (Universitá degli Studi Roma Tre)
• Roger Wiegand (University of Nebraska, Lincoln)

Moreover, there will be about thirty invited talks.
See the Symposium website for more information.
update: there are photos!