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Workshop in Celebration of Mark Green’s 60th Birthday: Hodge Theory and Algebraic Geometry
February 22 – 23, 2008
UCLA Department of Mathematics
This workshop will focus on recent work by a number of distinguished researchers in Hodge theory and algebraic geometry. It is also an opportunity to recognize Mark Green’s contributions to Mathematics.
Dr. Green obtained his PhD from Princeton, where his thesis adviser was Phillip Griffiths. After teaching at Berkeley and MIT, he came to UCLA as an Assistant Professor in 1975. Dr. Green’s research has taken him into several areas of mathematics–several complex variables, differential geometry, commutative algebra, Hodge theory and algebraic geometry. He received an Alfred P. Sloan fellowship and was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin. Along with Eitan Tadmor, he was one of IPAM’s Founding Co-Directors. He has been Director of IPAM since 2002 and is responsible for its remarkable success.
Organizing Committee

• David Gieseker , Chair (UCLA, Mathematics)
• David Eisenbud (University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley))
• Phillip Griffiths (Institute for Advanced Study)
• Stan Osher (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Mathematics)

Speakers

• James Carlson (Clay Mathematics Institute)
• Herb Clemens (Ohio State University)
• Ron Donagi (University of Pennsylvania)
• David Eisenbud (University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley))
• Phillip Griffiths (Institute for Advanced Study)
• Peter Jones (Yale University)
• Robert Lazarsfeld (University of Michigan)
• Stefan Muller-Stach (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz)
• Madhav Nori (University of Chicago)
• Stan Osher (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))
• Chris Peters (Université de Grenoble I (Joseph Fourier))
• Christoph Thiele (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))

More information and a registration form is available online at http://www.ipam.ucla.edu/programs/ht2008/. Please register in advance. There is no registration fee for the workshop. There will be an optional dinner held on Friday night in honor of Mark Green; a fee will be charged to those who attend.
For further information, send an email to ht2008@ipam.ucla.edu.

Combinatorial Algebra meets Algebraic Combinatorics
Fifth Annual Meeting
Dalhousie University,
Halifax, Canada
January 18 – 20, 2008
This meeting is a continuation of four previous annual workshops focusing on the interplay between commutative algebra (particularly, resolutions and inverse systems) and algebraic combinatorics (the representation theory of symmetric groups).
Invited Speakers (pending confirmation):

• Yuri Bahturin (Memorial University, St. John’s)
• Francois Bergeron (UQAM, Montreal)
• Nantel Bergeron (York University, Toronto)
• Tony Geramita (Queen’s University, Kingston)
• Greg Smith (Queen’s University, Kingston)
• Mike Zabrocki (York University, Toronto)

Organizers:

• Sara Faridi (Dalhousie University, Halifax)
• John Irving (Saint Mary’s University, Halifax)
• Hugh Thomas (University of New Brunswick, Fredericton)

If you are interested in attending and giving a talk, please contact one of the organizers. There is some funding available to help with expenses. For more information, please write to the organizers.

The 2008 Joint Mathematics Meetings will be held January 6-9, 2008 at the San Diego Convention Center. Lars W. Christensen, Sean Sather-Wagstaff, and Janet Striuli are organizing a Special Session on Progress in Commutative Algebra. Go here for the website maintained by the session organizers.

The CIMPA school and international conference on commutative algebra will be held at IIT-Bombay, India, Jan 2-12, 2008. 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 collaboration between mathematicians of different developing and developed countries.
The first week (Jan 2-6) will be a school with 4 instructional courses on the following topics:

1. Cohen-Macaulayness in the associated graded rings of certain m-primary ideals in a Noetherian local ring (S. Goto)
2. Using triangulated categories in commutative algebra (S. Iyengar)
3. Lectures in Determinantal ideals (R. M. Miró-Roig)
4. Vertex cover Algebras (N. V. Trung)

The second week (Jan 8-12) is devoted to an international conference. Besides invited lectures on recent developments in Commutative Algebra, there will be opportunities for mathematicians from developing countries to present their research works.
Organizing committee: L. L. Avramov, M. Chardin, M. E. Rossi, J. K. Verma, and T. J. Puthenpurakal
For more information, consult the conference website.

The 4th Seminar in Commutative Algebra and Related Topics will be held November 28-29, 2007 at IPM, Tehran, Iran. It is being organized by Siamak Yassemi. More information can be found at the seminar website.

The seminar represents a collaborative effort of commutative algebraists at Georgia State University and University of South Carolina to increase exposure of their research area in the South-East through periodic meetings. The organizers are Andy Kustin and Adela Vraciu. More information can be found on the web page of the seminar.

The 2007 Fall Eastern Section Meeting of the AMS will be held October 6-7, 2007 at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ. Jooyoun Hong and Wolmer Vasconcelos are organizing a Special Session on Commutative Algebra.

The Route 81 Conference on Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry this fall will be at Cornell University, on the weekend of September 21-22, 2007. Talks will be held on Saturday, September 22. For more details, see the conference website.