Author: ssather

The 2010 Fall Central Sectional Meeting of the AMS will be held at Notre Dame University, November 5-7, 2010. This meeting will include the following:

• Special Session on Commutative Algebra and Its Interactions with Algebraic Geometry.
• Special Session on Hilbert Functions in Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Combinatorics.

Title: International school in computational commutative algebra and algebraic geometry, Messina.
Description: The aim of the school is to introduce young mathematicians to recent developments and applications in Commutative algebra. The main topics will be: Theory of Groebner bases with applications to computation of invariants of graded algebras, in particular related to combinatorial objects.
The school will be held from 18 to 23 of October in Villa Pace, Messina. Students from abroad are welcome. In the last day (23) there will be a workshop about the topics discussed in the school. Young participants will be invited to give short communications.
Number of planned participants: 20 (at least 5 from abroad).
Speakers :
Juergen Herzog (University of Essen, Germania)
Volkmar Welker (University of Marburg, Germania)
Organizing commitee:
Gaetana Restuccia (University of Messina)
Juergen Herzog (University of Essen)
For more information, please contact
Gaetana Restuccia
E-mail: gaetana.restuccia <-At-> unime.it; restucciag <-At-> tiscalinet.it
Giancarlo Rinaldo
E-mail: giancarlo.rinaldo68 <-At-> gmail.com
Address: Dipartimento di Matematica, Facoltà di Scienze, Università degli studi, Viale F. Stagno D’Alcontres, 31, 98166 Messina.

The 2010 Fall Eastern Sectional Meeting of the AMS will be held at Syracuse University, October 2-3, 2010. This meeting will include a Special Session on Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry. See the session website for more information.

Commutative Algebra in the Southeast, National Meeting, September 24-26 2010
The Commutative Algebra in the Southeast series of meetings represents a collaborative effort of commutative algebraists at Georgia State University, University of South Carolina and University of Central Florida to increase exposure of their research area in the Southeast through periodic meetings. Each academic year GSU, USC and UCF organize two regional meetings and one national.
In 2010-2011, the national meeting will be hosted by Georgia State University. Organizers: Florian Enescu and Yongwei Yao. The meeting is sponsored by the National Security Agency and Georgia State Research Foundation.
For more information see the following: http://www2.gsu.edu/~matfxe/gsu-usc/nationalmeeting.html.

A Southwest Local Algebra Meeting will be held 5-6 March 2011 at New Mexico State University. More information can be found at the conference website.

Dear Macaulay 2 user,
With funding from the NSA and the NSF, we are organizing a Macaulay 2 workshop, from Sunday, August 8, 2010 through Thursday, August 12, 2010, with Saturday, August 7 and Friday, August 13 serving as the travel days. The workshop will be at Colorado College in Colorado Springs, CO. Activities will start first thing Sunday morning (possibly Saturday night).
The purpose of the workshop is to bring Macaulay 2 developers together with those who would like to share or develop their skills at writing packages for Macaulay 2 and those who are interested in developing the corresponding mathematical algorithms. Sample software projects that might be undertaken are visible at http://www.math.uiuc.edu/Macaulay2/dev/projects/ — although this page is rather out of date at this point and we are looking for participants who might have new packages they are interested in. Past workshops topics and activities can be viewed at http://wiki.macaulay2.com/Macaulay2/index.php?title=MSRI2010_-_Main_Page, http://wiki.macaulay2.com/Macaulay2/index.php?title=AIM2009_-_Main_Page, and http://wiki.macaulay2.com/Snowbird/. The new main Macaulay 2 wiki page is at http://wiki.macaulay2.com/Macaulay2 and a project development page is in the process of being built there. Please take a look and consider posting your project on that page.
Attendance at this workshop by invitation only — based on a brief application — and all who are interested are encouraged to apply. Financial support is available for approximately 20-30 people with preference given to younger researchers.
Also, please note that we expect to have such a workshop approximately once per year, so you should look for future announcements as well.
If you would like to attend, please let us know as soon as possible. Everyone interested is strongly encouraged to apply, including graduate students and postdocs. Your application should include
1. information about what algorithms you would like to work on, and what you have done in the past (this is the most important piece — please put some thought into this and be as specific as possible),
2. whether or not you are a citizen or permanent resident of the US (this assists us with budgeting based on where our funding comes from),
3. a good estimate of travel expenses, and whether you would require financial support for housing and meals (when available), and if you will be willing to share a room, (rooms are in limited supply; if additional single rooms are available, and you want one, we may ask you to pay any additional cost). Everyone should include this information in the event that we obtain additional funds.
4. your current institution and rank, and if you are a graduate student, your advisor’s name.
Applications are due by March 1, 2010 and we hope to allocate funds to participants by April 1, 2010.
Our organizer for this workshop is Amelia Taylor. Applications should be directed to Amelia Taylor at amelia.taylor@coloradocollege.edu.
A few other pieces of information you may need:
1. If we pay for your travel, it must be on an American air carrier, if at all possible.
2. Please commit to being present for the entire workshop.
3. You will need to bring your laptop with Macaulay 2 on it to the workshop.
Hirotachi Abo
David Eisenbud
Daniel R. Grayson
Michael E. Stillman
Amelia Taylor

A Workshop on Computational Aspects of Singularity Theory will be held from 22-31 July, 2010 in Skardu, Pakistan. The workshop is being organized by the Abdus Salam School of Mathematical Sciences. For more information, see the website for the workshop.

The American Institute of Mathematics in Palo Alto, California will host the workshop “Components of Hilbert Schemes” July 19 to July 23, 2010. The workshop is being organized by Robin Hartshorne, Diane Maclagan, and Gregory G. Smith.
Space and funding is available for a few more participants. If you would like to participate, please apply by filling out the on-line form no later than March 19, 2010.
For more information, please consult the webpage for the workshop.

There will be a conference related to commutative algebra this coming May in Ann Arbor. The dates are May 17-22, 2010.
The focus is on Frobenius splitting (involving ideas coming from several areas).
The organizers have some funding for graduate students and young researchers. There is a deadline of March 12th for applications for support. For more information, see the conference website.
update May 30: The organizers of the Frobenius Splitting conference back in May have posted some group photos to the conference website.