Author: Graham Leuschke

There will be a Special Session on Commutative Algebra at the Fall Central Sectional Meeting of the AMS, September 9-10, 2017. The organizers of the session are Jonathan Montano (U. Kansas) and Alessio Sammartano (Purdue U.).
update 15 May: There will also be a Special Session on “Homological Methods in Commutative Algebra” at the Denton meeting, organized by Peder Thompson (Texas Tech) and Ashley Wheeler (U. Arkansas).

The Research Institute of the University of Bucharest, the Institute of Mathematics “Simion Stoilow” of the Romanian Academy, the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Bucharest, and The Romanian Mathematical Society will organize the 25th National School on Algebra, September 4 – September 8, 2017, Bucharest, Romania.
There will be three main courses on syzygies, generic initial ideals, repectively modular invariant theory, each consisting of three one-hour lectures and one tutorial delivered by Marian Aprodu (IMAR & University of Bucharest, Romania), Enrico Sbarra (Universita degli Studi di Pisa, Italy) and Mufit Sezer (Bilkent University, Turkey). Apart from these courses there will also be contributed talks of the participants. Details of this conference can be found at the web page for the conference.
For registration to this conference contact the organizers at vladoiu@fmi.unibuc.ro.

The University of Minnesota will host a conference focusing on recent advances in commutative algebra centered around topics influenced by the contributions of Gennady Lyubeznik: local cohomology, rings of prime characteristic, D-modules, and the homological conjectures. The conference will be held August 7-11, 2017.
Confirmed speakers include:

• Josep Àlvarez-Montaner (Polytèchnic University of Catalonia, Spain)
• Lucho Avramov (University of Nebraska, USA)
• Margherita Baile (University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy)
• Bhargav Bhatt (University of Michigan, USA
• Manuel Blickle (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Germany)
• Holger Brenner (Universität Osnabrück, Germany)
• John Greenlees (University of Sheffield, UK)
• Robin Hartshorne (University of California, Berkeley)
• Daniel Hernández (University of Kansas, USA)
• Jen-Chieh Hsiao (National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan)
• Mel Hochster (University of Michigan, USA)
• Craig Huneke (University of Virginia, USA)
• Mordechai Katzman (University of Sheffield, UK)
• Anton Leykin (Georgia Tech, USA)
• Kazuma Shimomoto (Nihon University, Japan)
• Anurag Singh (University of Utah, USA)
• Nick Switala (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)
• Emily Witt (University of Kansas, USA)

Participants should register by May 1 to be considered for funding.
For more information see the web page for the conference.

The Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences (IASBS) and the Institute for research in fundamental sciences (IPM) are organizing the First Research School on Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry (RSCAAG) on the topic “Algebra, Combinatorics and Geometry of Monomials” from 5 to 17 August 2017 in Zanjan, Iran.
The aim of the school is to introduce research topics in the main streams of Algebraic Geometry and Commutative Algebra to young researchers and PhD students, and encourage them to collaborate in teams leaded by well-known mathematicians. To reach this aim, an educational-research school will be organized for a period of 2 weeks in IASBS. After some intensive courses on special topics, participants will be divided into groups and start work and research on some proposed related problems. These collaborations will be continued after the schools.
The topic of monomial ideals and algebras, as a subject of Commutative Algebra, Homological Algebra, Combinatorics and Geometry will be investigated from several points of view. The common point will be reaching to understand the behavior of monomials when the corresponding ideal or algebra has special properties.
Scientific Committee:

• Eric Babson (University of California at Davis, USA)
• Jürgen Herzog (University of Essen, Germany)
• Abbas Nasrollah Nejad (IASBS, Zanjan, Iran)
• Volkmar Welker (Philips-University Marburg, Germany)
• Ali Akbar Yazdan Pour (IASBS, Zanjan, Iran)
• Rashid Zaare-Nahandi (IASBS, Zanjan, Iran)

Organizers:

• Ali Akbar Yazdan Pour (IASBS, Zanjan, Iran) (yazdan@iasbs.ac.ir)-Chair
• Raheleh Jafari (KHU, Tehran, Iran) (rjafari@ipm.ir)
• Salman Khodayifar (IASBS-Zanjan, Iran) (s.khodayifar@iasbs.ac.ir)
• Abbas Nasrollah Nejad (IASBS-Zanjan, Iran) (abbasnn@iasbs.ac.ir)
• Ashkan Nikseresht (IASBS, Zanjan, Iran) (nikseresht@iasbs.ac.ir)
• Ali Taherkhani (IASBS-Zanjan, Iran) (ali.taherkhani@iasbs.ac.ir)
• Rashid Zaare-Nahandi (IASBS, Zanjan, Iran) (rashidzn@iasbs.ac.ir)

Please find more information at the website for the school.

SIAM Conference on Applied Algebraic Geometry (AG17)
July 31 – August 4, 2017
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia
website: https://www.siam.org/meetings/ag17/
Conference Co-Chairs

• David A. Cox, Amherst College, USA
• Serkan Hosten, San Francisco State University

Program Committee

• Alicia Dickenstein, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Hoon Hong, North Carolina State University, USA
• Teresa Krick, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Kristin Lauter, Microsoft Research, USA
• Lek-Heng Lim, University of Chicago, USA
• Dmitriy Morozov, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, USA
• Frank Sottile, Texas A&M University, USA
• Thorsten Theobald, Goethe-Universitaet, Frankfurt, Germany
• Ruriko Yoshida, Naval Postgraduate School, USA

Local Organizers

• Greg Blekherman, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
• Anton Leykin, Geogia Institute of Technology, USA
• Josephine Yu, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

There will be a Macaulay2 event preceding the SIAM Applied Algebraic Geometry meeting. The organizers plan three full days of M2 tutorials on July 27-29 (Thu-Sat), which will take place at Georgia Tech. These tutorials are intended to appeal to participants with any level of prior M2 experience. The topics will range from the basic functionality of M2 to modeling problems in the M2 language to more specialized tutorials on algebraic statistics and numerical algebraic geometry. We will also reserve ample time for practice and Q&A sessions.
Registration is free, but prospective participants should fill out this form.
The deadline to apply for financial support (for local expenses) is May 15, 2017. Priority will be given to students and early career participants.

The 2017 Mathematical Congress of the Americas, held July 24-28 in Montreal, Canada, will have several sessions of interest to commutative algebraists:

• Advances in Arrangement Theory, organized by Jeremiah Bartz, Christin Bibby, and Max Wakefield
• Applied and Computational Algebra and Geometry, organized by Carina Curto, Alicia Dickenstein, and Luis David Garcia Puente
• Combinatorial Commutative Algebra, organized by Sara Faridi, Susan Morey, and Rafael Villarreal
• Recent Trends in Algebraic Cycles, Algebraic K-Theory and Motives, organized by Guillermo Cortiñas, E. Javier Elizondo, James Lewis, Paulo Lima-Filho, and Chuck Weibel
• Representation Theory of Algebras, organized by Ibrahim Assem, Raymundo Bautista, Flavio Ulhoa Coelho, Ralf Schiffler, and Sonia Trepode

And possibly others we’ve missed! See the scientific program for the meeting for a full listing of sessions.

There will be a conference and workshop at UC Berkeley, July 17-21 2017, on regularity and Stillman’s problem; the conference will honor Mike Stillman’s and Dave Bayer’s 60th birthdays. The conference will be the first two days (July 17-18), and the following 3 days will be the M2 workshop (July 19-21).
For more information please visit the website for the event. On the site you can register for the conference and workshop.
If you would like to apply for travel support please submit your registration by February 15, 2017. All are welcome to apply for support and priority will go to graduate students, postdocs, those from underrepresented communities, and those planning on attending both the conference and the workshop.
Confirmed Speakers:

• Christine Berkesch Zamaere
• Mel Hochster
• Craig Huneke
• Giulio Caviglia
• Sonja Mapes
• Jason McCullough
• Irena Peeva
• Alexandra Seceleanu
• Mauricio Velasco

Organizers:

• David Eisenbud
• Sonja Mapes
• Hal Schenck
• Branden Stone
• David Swinarski
• Amelia Taylor

There will be a conference “The Prospects for Commutative Algebra” at the Hotel Nikko Osaka, in Osaka, Japan, July 10-14, 2017.
Invited Speakers for Plenary Lectures

• Winfried Bruns (Universität Osnabrück)
• Aldo Conca (Università degli Studi di Genova)
• Dale Cutkosky (University of Missouri)
• David Eisenbud (MSRI/University of California Berkeley)
• Daniel Erman (University of Wisconsin)
• Shiro Goto (Meiji University)
• Jürgen Herzog (Universität Duisburg-Essen)
• Osamu Iyama (Nagoya University)
• Srikanth Iyengar (University of Utah)
• Ryo Kanda (Osaka University/University of Washington)
• Kazuhiko Kurano (Meiji University)
• Claudia Polini (University of Notre Dame)
• Tony J. Puthenpurakal (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay)
• Claudiu Raicu (University of Notre Dame)
• Maria Evelina Rossi (Università degli Studi di Genova)
• Frank-Olaf Schreyer (Universität des Saarlandes)
• Karl Schwede (University of Utah)
• Janet Striuli (Fairfield University)
• Ryo Takahashi (Nagoya University)
• Kevin Tucker (University of Illinois at Chicago)
• Brooke Ullery (Harvard University)
• Christine Berkesch Zamaere (University of Minnesota)

Organizing Committee

• Dale Cutkosky (University of Missouri)
• David Eisenbud (MSRI/U.C. Berkeley)
• Shiro Goto (Meiji University)
• Jürgen Herzog (Universität Duisburg-Essen)
• Takayuki Hibi (Osaka University, Chair)

See the conference web page for more information.