Category: Conference Listings

There will be a conference at Purdue University titled “Midwest Commutative Algebra Conference.’’ It will be held  from Monday, August 3, through Friday, August 7, 2015. This meeting is in the tradition of Midwest Algebra and Geometry Conferences. The topics of the conference are recent advances in Commutative Algebra and its intersection with Algebraic Geometry, with particular emphasis on characteristic p methods, multiplicity theory, multiplier ideals, free resolutions, local cohomology, and the homological conjectures.

There will be a poster session to give junior mathematicians and graduate students an opportunity to present their work.  Junior mathematicians and graduate students are particularly encouraged to participate in the conference, as well as mathematicians from traditionally underrepresented groups and faculty of undergraduate institutions. The deadline for being considered for financial support is July 1, 2015.

More details may be found on the website of the conference:  http://www.math.purdue.edu/~ulrich/Purdue_2015/

update 18 June 2015: Confirmed speakers include L. Avramov, C. Berkesch, D. Cutkosky, H. Dao, S. Dutta, L. Ein, D. Erman, M. Hochster, C. Huneke, S. Kleiman, G. Lyubeznik, L. Ma, J. Madsen, J. Montano, S. Sam, H. Schenck, A. Singh, K. Tucker, and W. Zhang. The website also now has information on finding accommodations.

International Conference in Homological Algebra
July 22-24, 2015
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY
The aim is to cover recent developments and applications of the homological methods in areas such as Commutative and Non commutative Algebra, Model Category Theory, and Algebraic Geometry. The conference will include one day honoring Professor Edgar Enochs’ career.

The forty-fifth Summer Research Institute, sponsored by the American Mathematical Society and organized in collaboration with the Clay Mathematics Institute, will be devoted to algebraic geometry and will be held at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, July 13-31, 2015.
The goal of the three-week institute is to review major achievements in and around algebraic geometry in the past decade, and bring the attendants to the forefront of the relevant subjects. The three weeks will be roughly focused respectively on

1. analytic methods, birational geometry and classification, commutative algebra and computational geometry, Hodge theory, singularities, and characteristic p methods.
2. derived algebraic geometry, derived categories, geometric representation theory, Gromov-Witten and Donaldson-Thomas theories, mirror symmetry, tropical geometry.
3. p-adic Hodge theory, rational points and Diophantine problems, arithmetic fundamental groups, topology of algebraic varieties, cycles, and cohomology theories.

The institute will be generally modeled on the 2005 Summer Research Institute held at the University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, with plenary lecture series in the mornings, and parallel seminar series in the afternoons.
For more information about the Summer Institute, including the list of speakers and information about registration, please go to the institute webpage.
Registration deadline: January 15, 2015.

The Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany, will host a conference “Theory and applications of syzygies, on the occasion of Frank-Olaf Schreyer’s 60th birthday” July 1–3, 2015.
Speakers:

• Hans-Christian von Bothmer
• Janko Böhm
• Ragnar Buchweitz
• Wolfram Decker
• David Eisenbud
• Daniel Erman
• Gavril Farkas
• Giorgio Ottaviani
• Kristian Ranestad
• Claire Voisin

Organizers:

• Christian Bopp
• Daniel Erman
• Michael Hahn
• Hannah Markwig
• Fabio Tanturri

For more information, see the web site for the conference.
There is a limited amount of NSF funding to help with travel, and interested students and postdocs are strongly encouraged to apply. You can find details about apply for funding by clicking on the “Registration” link on the webpage or emailing derman@math.wisc.edu.

The 8th Mathematical Society of Japan, Seasonal Institute (MSJ SI) will be held at Hotel Nikko Osaka, Osaka, Japan, July 1 — July 10, 2015. The topic is “Current Trends on Gröbner Bases — The 50th Anniversary of Gröbner Bases”. It consists of a summer school (July 1 — July 4, 2015) for graduate students and an international conference (July 6 — July 10, 2015) for researchers.
The summer school lecturers are
Mathias Drton（University of Washington）
Toshinori Oaku（Tokyo Woman’s Christian University）
Michael Stillman（Cornell University）
Seth Sullivant（North Carolina State University）
For more information, including a list of speakers at the conference, see the web page for the Institute.

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MEGA 2015
Effective Methods in Algebraic Geometry
University of Trento, Department of Mathematics,
Povo (Trento) Italy
June 15-19, 2015
This is the 25th (silver!) anniversary of MEGA. During the conference
we will celebrate this anniversary with a special afternoon programme.
Further information: http://mega2015.science.unitn.it/
Submission page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mega2015

The joint meeting of the American Mathematical Society, the European Mathematical Society, and the Soceidad Portuguesa de Matemática, in Porto, Portugal (10-13 June of 2015) will host several special sessions in Algebra and Geometry.
There will be two sessions in Commutative Algebra are entitled “Commutative Artinian Algebras and Their Deformations” and “Homological and Combinatorial Commutative Algebra”, and organized by Anthony Iarrobino (Northeastern University), Pedro Macias Marques (Universidade de Évora), Maria Evelina Rossi (Università degli Studi di Genova), Inês B. Henriques (University of Sheffield), Lars Winther Christensen (Texas Tech University) and Maria Vaz Pinto (Universidade de Lisboa).
More information on the meeting can be found at: http://aep-math2015.spm.pt/ListOfSessions.

The AMS will hold a “Mathematics Research Community” (MRC) on Commutative Algebra in Snowbird, Utah, from June 7 to 13, 2015.
MRCs are designed “to develop and sustain long-lasting cohorts for collaborative research projects in many areas of mathematics. Women and underrepresented minorities are especially encouraged to participate. The AMS will provide a structured program to engage and guide all participants as they start their careers.”
The organizers for this MRC are

• Srikanth B. Iyengar, University of Utah
• Karl Schwede, University of Utah
• Liana Sega, University of Missouri—Kansas City
• Gregory G. Smith, Queen’s University
• Wenliang Zhang, University of Nebraska

The workshop will focus on the following topics:

1. Singularities in positive characteristic
2. Local cohomology and D-modules
3. Methods from homotopy theory
4. Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity
5. Infinite free resolutions

For more information, including application procedures, see the AMS web page for the MRC.

The International Centre for Mathematical Sciences (ICMS) in Edinburgh, Scotland, will hold a workshop on “Minimal free resolutions, Betti numbers, and combinatorics” June 1–5, 2015. The organizers are Milena Hering and Frank-Olaf Schreyer.
The workshop description says:

Bringing together researchers working on minimal free resolutions, combinatorics, and algebraic geometry this workshop will be a forum to exchange open questions and develop further directions of research. Topics covered by the workshop will include: Boij-Soderberg theory; asymptotic syzygies; combinatorial methods in understanding minimal free resolutions of monomial, toric ideals, or ideals associated to graphs; and methods of representation theory to understand Veronese embeddings.

For more information please see the web page for the workshop.

From Dan Grayson:

We are organizing a Macaulay2 workshop, from Wednesday, May 27, 2015 through Saturday, May 30, 2015 with Tuesday, May 26 and Sunday, May 31 serving as the travel days. The workshop will be at Boise State University in Boise, Idaho. Activities will start first thing Wednesday morning (possibly Tuesday night). Our main funding source for this workshop is the National Science Foundation.
The purpose of the workshop is to bring Macaulay2 developers together with those who would like to share or develop their skills at writing packages for Macaulay2 and those interested in developing the corresponding mathematical algorithms. We are interested in participants with a broad range of experience with Macaulay2, from very experienced to novices. The novices will have the opportunity to learn about Macaulay2 from the more experienced participants. Some examples of projects from past workshops can be viewed at the links at the end of this email. There is ongoing work on many of the packages described there, and we hope that a few teams will propose new projects and work on them at this workshop as well.
Attendance at this workshop is by invitation only — based on a brief application — and all who are interested are encouraged to apply. We anticipate financial support for approximately 30-35 people. We strive to include both experienced Macaulay2 developers and people who want to gain experience in Macaulay2 — there is no minimum amount of experience that is required in order to apply!
If you would like to attend, please apply as soon as possible at the following webpage
http://goo.gl/forms/lLWey61emd

For more information, see http://wiki.macaulay2.com/Macaulay2/index.php?title=Boise2015_Announcement_and_Application.