Category: Conference Listings

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.

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.

The Department of Mathematics, St Berchmans College Changanassery, Kerala, India, is organizing an International Seminar on Algebra and Coding Theory (INSACT 2017) from 8th to 10th February 2017.

The seminar website:https://sites.google.com/site/insact2017/

The 2017 Joint Math Meetings will be held January 4-7 (Wed-Sat) in Atlanta, GA (http://jointmathematicsmeetings.org/jmm). Here are some special sessions that might be of interests.

Commutative Algebra: Research for Undergraduate and Early Graduate Students

This session meets Friday 1/6 1:00-5:50 and will include a few 45-minute lectures from senior researchers with experience working with young commutative algebraists as well as 20-minute talks from undergraduates and early graduate students. The focus of this session is serious but student-friendly commutative algebra research, and should be accessible to anyone having had a first course in ring theory. The aim is to promote future commutative algebra research with undergraduates and early graduate students by highlighting new results and interesting, tractable open problems.

Session Webpage

Organizers: Nick Baeth and Courtney Gibbons.

The University of Illinois at Chicago will host an RTG Workshop on the Homological Conjectures in Commutative Algebra from November 18th through the 20th of 2016. The minicourses will be geared toward graduate students, postdocs, and young researchers; titles are speakers are listed below:

• Introduction – Chris Skalit (UIC)
• Minicourse 1 – Mel Hochster (Michigan): An overview of the homological conjectures, recent progress on the direct summand conjecture, big Cohen-Macaulay modules and algebras, and lim Cohen-Macaulay sequences
• Minicourse 2 – Mark Walker (Nebraska): Tackling homological conjectures using algebraic K-theory
• Minicourse 3 – Linquan Ma (Utah): The vanishing conjecture for maps of Tor, splinters, and derived splinters

Workshop and registration information may be found at (http://kftucker.people.uic.edu/homconj/). Those seeking funding should apply by October 10th.

There will be a special session at the Fall Southeastern Sectional Meeting, North Carolina State University at Raleigh, Raleigh, NC on November 12-13, 2016 (Saturday – Sunday)
See more information at: http://www.ams.org/meetings/sectional/2241_program.html

Special Session on Homological Methods in Commutative Algebra.

Organizers:

Alina Iacob: Georgia Southern University

Saeed Nasseh, Georgia Southern University

CA+, a mini-conference hosted jointly by Minnesota and Wisconsin and highlights work in commutative algebra and related fields like algebraic geometry, number theory, combinatorics, and more. Colloquium-style talks will be targeted at a broad audience of people interested in algebra. The dates are Nov 4-5, 2016 in Madison, WI. For more information, see the conference website:

 http://www.math.umn.edu/~cberkesc/CA/CA2016.html.

 

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.

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 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.