Author: ssather

Andre Conference, Lausanne

Michel André, renowned commutative algebraist and former EPFL professor, died in a tragic hiking accident in July 2009 at the age of 73. In honor of his memory and of his important contributions to both algebra and topology, a conference will be held 11 – 13 May 2011, at the Bernoulli Centre of the EPFL.
Building upon the foundations laid during the Summer School on the Interactions between Homotopy Theory and Algebra, held at the University of Chicago in 2004, this conference will provide an opportunity for algebraists and topologists working on closely related subjects at the interface between commutative algebra and stable homotopy to meet and learn about each other’s work.
The conference will consist of 14 lectures on recent research in algebra and topology related to the work of Michel André, in particular to André-Quillen cohomology and the cotangent complex.
The following mathematicians have agreed to speak at the conference.
Luchezar Avramov (Nebraska)
Maria Basterra (New Hampshire)
David Blanc (Haifa)
Ragnar Buchweitz (Toronto)
Srishti Chatterji (EPFL)
Paul Goerss (Northwestern)
Jürgen Herzog (Essen)
Cristodor Ionescu (Romanian Academy)
Srikanth Iyengar (Nebraska)
Nick Kuhn (Virginia)
Mike Mandell (Indiana)
Haynes Miller (MIT)
Birgit Richter (Hamburg)
Bernd Ulrich (Purdue)
Further information can be found on the conference website: http://sma.epfl.ch/~hessbell/andre_memorial/index.html.
Registration for the conference should be done on-line at http://cib.epfl.ch/PublicRegistrationFormHess.php?id=787. Participants should register for the conference by April 15 at the latest.
A list of hotels offering reduced rates to conference participants can be found here: http://sma.epfl.ch/~hessbell/andre_memorial/Hotels.pdf.

Thunder Bay, ON: Combinatorial Algebra meets Algebraic Combinatorics VIII

Combinatorial Algebra meets Algebraic Combinatorics
Eighth Annual Meeting
Lakehead University
Thunder Bay, ON
January 21 – 23, 2011
Invited Speakers

  • Nantel Bergeron (York University, Toronto)
  • François Bergeron (UQAM, Montreal)
  • Victor Reiner (University of Minnesota)
  • Jessica Sidman (Mt. Holyoke)
  • Jerzy Weyman (Northeastern University)

Organizers

  • Sara Faridi (Dalhousie)
  • Tony Geramita (Queen’s and Genoa)
  • Adam Van Tuyl (Lakehead)

Contributed talks are very welcome. Please contact Sara Faridi with titles and abstracts.
Funding available especially for students and postdocs. Please contact Sara Faridi to apply.
Website: http://flash.lakeheadu.ca/~avantuyl/research/CombAlgMeetsAlgComb_Lakehead_2011.html

Lincoln, NE: KUMUNU

KUMUNU 2011 will take place April 2 – 3 at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln. A conference web page with information about speakers and a tentative schedule has been set up at http://www.math.unl.edu/~bharbourne1/KUMUNU/. The organizers have applied to NSF for travel and lodging support. Thus, information about possible reimbursements will be provided at a later date.
Registration and Lodging: In order to prepare for KUMUNU the organizers ask that you take a moment to fill out the on-line registration, which will be available soon. The organizers are expecting to request a small registration fee, especially if NSF does not fund our proposal. Lodging information will also be included in the upcoming email.
New This Year: This year there will be a poster session for graduate students! This will take place on the afternoon of April 2. If you would like to present a poster then please indicate so when you register.
Special This Year: KUMUNU 2011 is being held in association with the 2011 Rowlee Lecture, to be given by David Eisenbud, Friday, April 1, 2011 at 4 p.m. For information on the Rowlee Lecture, see http://www.math.unl.edu/events/rowlee/.

New Orleans, LA: JMM

The 2011 Joint Mathematics Meeting will be held in New Orleans, LA, January 6-9, 2011. This meeting will include at least two special sessions of interest to the commalg community:

Canary Islands, Spain: Computer Algebra

EACA´s First International School on Computer Algebra and its Applications
(Costa Adeje, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain)
January 24-28, 2011
http://www.eacaschool.com
Registration is now open (deadline December 9, 2010)
The EACA´s First International School on Computer Algebra and its Applications is an activity of the Spanish network Red EACA, Red Tematica de Calculo Simbolico, Algebra Computacional y Aplicaciones (see http://www.redeaca.tk), partially supported by the Ministry of Education, under the Accion Complementaria MTM2009-06305-E.
The School will take place from Monday, January 24 to Friday, January 28, 2011 at the Hotel H10, Costa Adeje, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain (see http://www.hotelh10costaadejepalace.com).
This School intends to provide an opportunity for young researchers (namely, Master students, PhD students and Postdocs with less than 5 years since their PhD) in Computer Algebra and Symbolic Computation or in its Applications from all over the world, to learn from three internationally recognized lecturers, about recent developments on the following topics:
– Algebraic phylogenetics, by Marta Casanellas (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain)
– Polynomial equations in Singular and applications, by Wolfram Decker (TU Kaiserslautern, Germany)
– The diophantine Frobenius problem: algorithms, applications and generalizations, by Jorge Ramirez Alfonsin (Universite de Montpellier 2, France)
(see abstracts at http://www.eacaschool.com/school_lectures)
Each course will include, as detailed in the Program (see a href=”http://www.eacaschool.com/program”>http://www.eacaschool.com/program), both theoretical lectures and exercise/lab sessions. Participants are expected to bring their own laptop.
The School also welcomes experienced researchers interested in these topics.
Poster Session
Participants will also have an opportunity to show some of their on-going work, by presenting a Poster at the designed Poster Session on Friday, January 28. Instructions about how to submit a Poster appear here http://www.eacaschool.com/poster_session Submissions will be supervised by the School’s Scientific committee (see http://www.eacaschool.com/scientific_committee).
Social Program
Costa Adeje is, in January, a wonderful place to explore and to develop different social activities on your own (swimming at the nearby beaches, hotel pools, excursions to the Teide, to Anaga etc.), see http://www.eacaschool.com/tourist_information. The School organizes Wednesday afternoon a specific social activity (http://www.losgigantes.com/nashira.htm).
Registration
Participants, both young and experienced researchers, should fill the registration form on-line before December 9, 2010 at 23.30 at http://www.eacaschool.com/registration.
We provide financial support for participation of young researchers. They should pay the registration fee of 200 euros when registering. This fee, in addition to the financial support, covers course materials, housing (shared rooms) in the Hotel H10 Costa Adeje Palace (School’s venue) with breakfast and dinner included from January 23 (arrival at dinner) to January 29 (departure after breakfast), and also includes the participation at the social activity.
Experienced researchers do not have to pay the registration fee, but they will not benefit from any financial support. If they are interested in the possibility to be lodged at the Hotel H10 Costa Adeje Palace, advance payment for the room should be done at the registration moment. Else, AFID Congresos can help them finding other lodging facilities at Costa Adeje (eacaschool@aficongresos.com).
We highly recommend flying to Tenerife Sur airport (TFS).
For more information, please visit the website at http://www.eacaschool.com.
The Organizers (email address: EACAskul@ull.es)
Isabel Bermejo (Universidad de La Laguna, Spain)
Tomas Recio (Universidad de Cantabria, Spain)
Eva Garcia Llorente (Universidad de La Laguna, Spain)
Ignacio Garcia Marco (Universidad de La Laguna, Spain)