Author: Graham Leuschke

SLAM 2017

The 2017 Southwest Local Algebra Meeting (SLAM 2017) will take place at University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, NM, 4-5 March 2017. Confirmed speakers include:

  • Alexandru Buium (University of New Mexico)
  • Youngsu Kim (University of California, Riverside)
  • Karl Schwede (University of Utah)

The organizers are:

  • Lars Winther Christensen (Texas Tech University)
  • Louiza Fouli (New Mexico State University)
  • David Jorgensen (University of Texas at Arlington)
  • Janet Vassilev (University of New Mexico)

For more information, including info about registration, travel, and accommodation, see the web page for the conference.

Topological and Geometric Combinatorics, Tehran

International School on
Topological and Geometric
Combinatorics
February 13-15, 2017
School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, College of Science, University of Tehran
Combinatorics is one of the fastest developing research areas of Mathematics. Much of this development is due to its connections and interactions with other areas of Mathematics, like Algebra, Geometry, Optimization and Topology. This school is devoted to the active area of interaction between Combinatorics with Geometry and Topology. More precisely, the following subjects will be covered in the school:
1. Applications of Topological Combinatorics
2. Modern Convex Geometry
3. Tropical Geometry
The goal of this event is to help the graduate students and young researchers to become familiar with the high standard topics and with the researches of international mathematicians. On the other hand, the invited speakers of the school will recognize the ability of our students and their mathematical knowledge. This will help both sides to make the best decision for starting any exchange collaboration.
Invited Speakers:

  • Afshin Goodarzi (Freie Universität Berlin)
  • Christian Haase (Freie Universität Berlin) (Not Confirmed)
  • Benjamin Matschke (Université de Bordeaux)
  • Amin Nematbakhsh (IPM)
  • Johannes Rau (University of Tübingen)
  • Volkmar Welker (Philipps-Universität Marburg)

Organizers:

  • Peyman Nasehpour (University of Tehran)
  • Seyed Amin Seyed Fakhari (University of Tehran)
  • Siamak Yassemi (University of Tehran)

The web page of this activity is http://intsci.ut.ac.ir/international-school-tgc.

Seminar Grothendieck Alexander (SGA-Tehran-2016)

The University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran will organize the Grothendieck Seminar October 25, 2016. The goal of the seminar is to promote different facets of Grothendieck’s life and heritage.
The organization is still in progress. Contact the organizers at a.g.seminar2016@gmail.com if you have any queries about attending or participating in the seminar. For additional information, see the webpage for the seminar.

Kathmandu 2016

Second International Workshop and Conference in Commutative Algebra (SIWCCA)

Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal
October 17 – 28, 2016
The workshop and conference will feature both preparatory talks and research/expository talks. The First International Workshop and Conference, in April 2015, was interrupted on its last day by the devastating earthquake, but nonetheless gave Nepali students and young faculty a taste of “what’s out there” in our field.
For information, please visit
http://www.cdmathtu.edu.np/index.php?show=commutative_algebra
or contact Roger and Sylvia Wiegand (rwiegand1@unl.edu, swiegand1@unl.edu) for details about the scientific program and Ajaya Singh (Singh.ajaya1@gmail.com) about local arrangements (transportation from the airport, lodging arrangements, etc.)
updated 5 Sept 2016

KUMUNU 2016

KUMUNU 2016 will be hosted by the University of Kansas on October 1-2, organized by Hailong Dao, Daniel Hernández, Daniel Katz, and Emily Witt.
KUMUNU has been an annual conference for commutative algebraists in the Great Plains region since 1999. It has evolved into a conference involving not only commutative algebra but many different fields where commutative algebra has found applications and inspirations.
This year’s speakers are

  • Ian Aberbach, University of Missouri
  • Tom Marley, University of Nebraska
  • Jonathan Montano, University of Kansas
  • Claudia Polini, University of Notre Dame
  • Steven Sam, University of Wisconsin
  • Karl Schwede, University of Utah

The organizers ask that participants register by August 29 since they need to reserve rooms. For more information, see the KUMUNU 2016 web page.

Two pieces of good news and one bad

Here are two fantastic pieces of news, with one piece of bad news in the middle.
The 2016 Mathematical Society of Japan Algebra Prize has been awarded to Kazuhiko Kurano (Meiji University), for his work in intersection theory over local rings and its application to the theory of Cohen-Macaulay modules. Congratulations! The other recipients of this year’s prize are Hidenori Katsurada and Masa-hiko Saito.
The Mathematical Sciences Program of the National Security Agency has announced that they will not be able to fund any new projects in fiscal year 2017.
Yves André has proved the direct summand conjecture using
perfectoid methods and Bhargav Bhatt has simplified the proof greatly and
also proved the derived version. Here are André’s preprint and Bhatt’s preprint.

Multigraded Algebra, Moieciu de Sus, Romania

The 24th National School on Algebra
EMS Summer School on Multigraded Algebra and Applications,
August 17-24, 2016, in Moieciu de Sus, Romania.
There will be the following two main courses:

  • Monomial and binomial ideals, by Juergen Herzog and Apostolos Thoma.
  • Applicable combinatorial commutative algebra, by Ezra Miller and Thomas Kahle.

Funds for covering the local expenses to a limited number of selected participants will be available. Preference will be given to graduate students and early career mathematicians.
Registration is closed.
For more information, please visit the website:
http://math.univ-ovidius.ro/sna/edition.aspx?cat=Index&itemID=10

ICRA 2016, Syracuse

The 17th bi-annual Workshop and International Conference on Representations of Algebras (ICRA 2016) will be hosted by Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York, USA.
Workshop: August 10–13, 2016 (Wednesday–Saturday).  The workshop will feature lecture series by leading researchers:

  • Claire Amiot (Institut Fourier)
  • Michel Brion (Institut Fourier)
  • Markus Linckelmann (City University London)
  • Robert Marsh (University of Leeds)
  • Julia Pevtsova (University of Washington)
  • Ryo Takahashi (Nagoya University)

The exact workshop schedule will be posted closer to the event.
Conference: August 15–19, 2016 (Monday–Friday). The conference will include both plenary speakers and parallel sessions. The plenary speakers will include

  • Srikanth Iyengar (University of Utah)
  • Bernard Leclerc (Université de Caen)
  • Steven Sam (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
  • Catharina Stroppel (Universität Bonn)
  • Hugh Thomas (University of New Brunswick)
  • Antoine Touzé (Université Paris 13)

Additional plenary and parallel talks will be selected based on the submitted abstracts by the participants.

Organizing Committee

  • Frauke Bleher
  • Calin Chindris
  • Harm Derksen
  • Mark Kleiner
  • Graham Leuschke
  • Ralf Schiffler
  • Dan Zacharia (chair)

Advisory Committee

  • Luchezar Avramov
  • Karin Erdmann
  • Birge Huisgen-Zimmermann
  • Henning Krause
  • Idun Reiten
  • Jerzy Weyman

Contact

For more information, see the ICRA 2016 web page.