Category: Conference Listings

Pragmatic 2014 (First announcement)
Catania, Italy
June 23th – July 11th, 2014
(Arrival date June 22th; departure date July 12th)
Lecturers:

• Prof. Aldo Conca – University of Genova (Italy)
• Prof. Anurag Singh – University of Utah (USA)
• Prof. Srikanth Iyengar – University of Nebraska (USA)

Subject: “Local cohomology and syzygies of affine algebras”
The goal of the school is to introduce the participants to some recent developments in the study of local cohomology and syzygies. We will study the local cohomology of polynomial rings with respect to arbitrary ideals and, in particular, how these may be regarded as modules over rings of differential operators. Applications of local cohomology to questions on the minimal number of defining equations of algebraic sets will be described. A second topic will be recent developments concerning the degrees of syzygies of affine algebras and their Koszul homology, with a focus on Koszul algebras, like Veronese subrings of polynomial rings. Strong versions of Koszulness and comparison among them will be discussed as well as some computational issues.
Local committee:

• Alfio Ragusa
• Francesco Russo
• Giuseppe Zappalà

People who wish to be considered either for participation and/or for financial support should fill out the  application form below, which should be sent to one of the following addresses:
E-mail: zappalag@dmi.unict.it
or
E-mail: ragusa@dmi.unict.it
The deadline for applications is March 15th, 2014. The Committee of Pragmatic will decide about financial supports and admissions within March 31th, 2014.  Interested people who need more information about Pragmatic can contact any member of the local committee.
The Organization of Pragmatic 2014 will cover the boarding and lodging expenses of the participants which are not supported by their institutions, but not the travel expenses.
APPLICATION FORM TO PRAGMATIC 2014
Surname:
Name:
Male or Female:
Date of Birth:
Nationality:
Institution:
Academic qualification (Ph.D., Master,…):
Name of advisor:
Professional Status and Current Position:
E-mail address:
Field of interest:
Can you be supported by your institution?: (Possible answers: totally, partly, no)
If you have a Ph.D, when did you get it and where?
Reasons for wanting to participate in the session:
It is suggested that the applications include both a recommendation letter and a brief Curriculum vitae.

XIV Encuentro de Álgebra Computacional y Aplicaciones: EACA 2014
(XIV Meeting on Computer Algebra and Applications)
Barcelona June 18-20 2014
http://www.ub.edu/eaca2014
The “Encuentros de Álgebra Computacional y Aplicaciones, EACA” (Meetings on Computer Algebra and Applications) are organized by the Spanish Red EACA, a thematic network devoted to symbolic computation, computer algebra and applications, partially supported by the Accion Complementaria MTM2011-13133-E . More information about the network can be found at http://www.unirioja.es/dptos/dmc/RedEACA/ The EACA meetings provide a meeting frame for researchers in the fields of Computer Algebra and Symbolic Computation, and for those who use these techniques in their research.
This XIV Meeting (biannual since 2002) is the natural continuation of those organized in Santander (1995), Sevilla (1996), Granada (1997), Sigüenza (1998), Tenerife (1999), Barcelona (2000), Ezcaray (2001), Valladolid (2002), Santander (2004), Sevilla (2006), Granada (2008), Santiago de Compostela (2010), and Alcalá de Henares (2012). We emphasize and specially favor the participation of young researchers.
Topics:
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– Effective Methods in Algebra, Analysis, Geometry and Topology
– Algorithmic Complexity
– Scientific Computation by means of Symbolic-Numerical Methods
– Symbolic-Numeric Software Development
– Analysis, Specification, Design and Implementation of Symbolic
Computation Systems
– Applications to Science and Technology
Invited Speakers:
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– Elisenda Feliu, University of Copenhagem, Denmark
– Deepak Kapur, University of New Mexico, USA
– Manuel Ladra, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
– Bernard Mourrain, INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, France
– Francisco Santos, University of Cantabria, Spain
Important Dates
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– Submissions’ deadline: February 21, 2014.
– Notification of acceptance: April 15, 2014.
– Deadline to apply for financial support: April 25, 2014.
– Final version of extended abstract: May 10, 2014.
– Early registration deadline: May 20, 2014.
– Conference: June 18-20, 2014.
Contributions:
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Participation at EACA 2014 can be done through an oral presentation. Everyone doing research and/or applications around the topics of the meeting is welcome to participate.
Contributions should present recent and original research work. Authors willing to submit a proposal for an oral communication at EACA 2014 should send an extended abstract of their contribution, with no more than 4 pages, by February 21st, 2014. Authors will receive notification of acceptance/rejection of their communication as well as on the possible changes requested by the Scientific Committee, by April 15th, 2014. A final version of the accepted abstracts will be requested for inclusion in a book of Proceedings.
For each talk 20 minutes are allowed, plus 5 minutes for discussion. We encourage participants to use English in the written documents used in their presentations.
More information is available at http://www.ub.edu/eaca2014/submission.html
Registration
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The ordinary registration fee is 120 Euros
Early payment (before May 20th, 2014): 100 Euros
Students’ fee: 80 Euros
The registration fee includes access to the conference, conference materials and coffee breaks. A social dinner is scheduled on Thursday, June 19th, with an additional cost of 30 Euros per person.
Financial Support
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RSME Grants: A limited number of grants by RSME (Real Sociedad Matemática Española) will be available. They are targeted to senior undergraduate/graduate students, or young researchers attending to the conference, and would primarily cover the registration fees.
Local Grants: Some lodging in shared rooms at Residència d’Investigadors will be available for young participants attending the conference who apply for financial support.
The deadline to apply for financial support is April 25th.
Scientific Committee:
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– María Emilia Alonso, U. Complutense de Madrid
– Isabel Bermejo, U. de La Laguna
– José Luis Bueso, U. de Granada
– Francisco J. Castro, U. de Sevilla
– Carlos D’Andrea, U. Barcelona
– Joan Elías, U. de Barcelona
– Philippe Giménez, U. de Valladolid
– José Gómez-Torrecillas, U. de Granada
– Laureano González-Vega, U. de Cantabria
– Manuel Ladra, U. de Santiago de Compostela
– Antonio Montes, U. Politècnica de Catalunya
– Tomás Recio, U. de Cantabria
– Julio Rubio, U. de la Rioja
– J. Rafael Sendra, U. de Alcalá de Henares
Local Committee:
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– Maria Alberich. U. Politècnica de Catalunya
– Josep Àlvarez, U. Politècnica de Catalunya
– Marta Casanellas, U. Politècnica de Catalunya
– Gemma Colomé, U. Pompeu Fabra
– Teresa Cortadellas, U. de Barcelona
– Carlos D’Andrea, U. de Barcelona
– Joan Elías, U. de Barcelona
– Alberto Fernández, U. Pompeu Fabra
– Jesús Fernández, U. Politècnica de Catalunya
– Antonio Montes, U. Politècnica de Catalunya
– Marta Narváez, U. de Barcelona
– Martín Sombra, ICREA & U. de Barcelona

The “Encuentros de Álgebra Computacional y Aplicaciones, EACA” (Meetings on Computer Algebra and Applications) are organized by the Spanish Red Temática de Cálculo Simbólico, Álgebra Computacional y Aplicaciones to provide a meeting frame for researchers in the fields of Computer Algebra and Symbolic Computation, and for those who use these techniques in their research.
This XIV Meeting (biannual since 2002) is the natural continuation of those organized in Santander (1995), Sevilla (1996), Granada (1997), Sigüenza (1998) , Tenerife (1999), Barcelona (2000) , Ezcaray (2001) , Valladolid (2002), Santander (2004), Sevilla (2006), Granada (2008), Santiago de Compostela (2010), and Alcalá de Henares (2012).
We emphasize and specially favor the participation of young researchers.
EACA 2014 will take place in Barcelona, at the Institut d’Estudis Catalans from June 18th to 20th, 2014.

update 19 March 2014: there is funding available both for those wishing to attend the 3 day research meeting and for those wishing to attend that and the Macaulay2 school! Those who wish to apply for funding should do so by April 4, 2014. See below.

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There will be a Macaulay2 school and research meeting at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, from Monday, June 16, 2014 through Friday, June 20, 2014 with Sunday, June 15 and Saturday, June 21 serving as the travel days.
Research Meeting
The research meeting will take place from June 18-20, open to all who wish to attend, with talks ranging from high-level descriptions of research in where computational algebra plays an important role to descriptions of advances in computational algebra systems and packages. There is a large and vital community of people using the system in a wide variety of ways, from computational biology to string theory to algebraic geometry. Because the spread of fields is great, many do not know the techniques that the others are using. One purpose of the research meeting is to bring together these disparate communities and foster bridges between them. At this point, speakers include

• David Eisenbud (Berkeley)
• Dan Erman (Wisconsin)
• Yang-Hui He (City University London)
• Milena Hering (Edinburgh)
• Anton Leykin (Georgia Tech)
• Diane Maclagan (Warwick)
• Dave Morrison (Santa Barbara) (*to be confirmed)
• Greg Smith (Queens)

For planning purposes, those who intend to attend the research meeting are requested to register at http://tinyurl.com/m5j3qdk .
Macaulay2 School
The school will take place June 16-17, and space is limited. The school will center on three tutorials (Greg Smith on Toric Varieties, Dan Bates on Numerical Algebraic Geometry, and a third TBA). The organizers plan to include a mix of advanced graduate students, recent postdocs, and some senior people who are relatively inexperienced with Macaulay2 for hands on training. Funding is available; indicate that you wish to attend on the registration form mentioned above. Please also include a short statement of purpose on why you wish to attend. Graduate students and postdocs should also arrange for a letter of endorsement from their advisor to be sent to Sonja Mapes <smapes1@nd.edu>.
Those who wish to attend the school should commit to being present for all days of the school and conference, and should install Macaulay2 on the laptops they will bring with them to the school and ensure that it runs.
Organizers:

• Sonja Mapes
• Hal Schenck

and

• David Eisenbud
• Daniel R. Grayson
• Michael Stillman

There will be a Workshop on “NonLinear Algebra: Interactions among Algebraic Geometry, Combinatorics, Commutative Algebra, Convexity, Statistics, Optimization and Computational Biology” in Berlin, Germany, May 29-30, 2015.
This is the kickoff workshop for the project on NonLinear Algebra that is funded for 2015-2018 by the Einstein Foundation. The organizers are Fatemeh Mohammadi (Osnabrück University) and Bernd Sturmfels (UC Berkeley). For more information see the web page for the workshop.

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln will host the third annual KUMUNUjr conference April 26-27 2014. Registration is now open: visit http://www.math.unl.edu/~jlutz3/KUMUNUjr/2014/registration.html.
Registration closes March 22nd. To be considered for funding or a 20 minute talk, please register by March 8th (with an abstract if you’d like to talk).
Dates: April 26-27, 2014
Location: University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Website: http://www.math.unl.edu/~jlutz3/KUMUNUjr/2014/
Confirmed Speakers (as of February 19, 2014):

• Justin Hoffmeier (University of Missouri-Kansas City)
• Van Nguyen (Texas A&M University)
• Denise Rangel (University of Texas at Arlington)
• Sarang Sane (University of Kansas)
• Zheng Yang (University of Nebraska)

KUMUNUjr provides an opportunity for young mathematicians studying commutative algebra in the Midwest to share their research and expertise with one another. Our discipline is an active one, with connections to algebraic geometry, cluster algebras, combinatorics, homological algebra, representation theory, statistics, and other areas. Furthermore, midwestern commutative algebra research continues to reflect the activity and diversity of the commutative algebra research community.
Through funding from the NSF, we anticipate being able to provide at least partial funding for travel and lodging.
Feel free to contact any of the organizers with questions.
Michael Brown mbrown15@math.unl.edu
Jason Lutz jlutz3@math.unl.edu

The next AGNES will take place at Stony Brook on April 25-27. There are funds to support participants, particularly junior participants. The registration deadline is March 15th (or thereabouts).
The list of confirmed and tentative speakers is as follows.

• Ron Donagi (University of Pennsylvania): TBD
• Eugene Gorsky (Columbia University): Refined Knot Invariants and Hilbert Schemes
• Sandor Kovacs (University of Washington): TBD
• James McKernan* (UC San Diego): TBD
• Zsolt Patakfalvi (Princeton University): On Subadditivity of Kodaira Dimension in Positive Characteristic
• Michael Thaddeus (Columbia University): TBD
• Burt Totaro (Cambridge University and UCLA): The Chow Ring of a Finite Group
• Cynthia Vinzant (University of Michigan): Symmetroids and Quartic Spectrahedra

*To be confirmed
There will also be a panel discussion on directing research projects for undergraduates led by Sam Payne (Yale), Jessica Sidman (Mount Holyoke) and Jenia Tevelev (UMass Amherst).
For more details and a registration please see the workshop webpage.
There are funds to support participants, but participants with significant travel costs are encouraged to explore partial support from their home institutions.
Organizers:

• Samuel Grushevsky,
• Radu Laza,
• Robert Lazarsfeld,
• Jason Starr

The Central Spring Sectional Meeting of the AMS will be held at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, TX, April 11-13, 2014 (Friday – Sunday).
There are several sessions of potential interest to commutative algebraists:

• Brian Harbourne and Alexandra Seceleanu are co-organizing a special session on “Interactions between Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry” at this meeting (link to schedule)
• David Weinberg is running a special session on “Algebraic Geometry” (link to schedule)
• Kenneth Chan and Jack Jeffries are running a special session on “Developments from PASI 2012: Commutative Algebra and Interactions with Related Disciplines” (link to schedule)
• Lars W. Christensen, Hamid Rahmati and Janet Striuli are running a special session on “Homological Methods in Algebra” (link to schedule)

There will be several events of interest to commalg.org readers at the Western Spring Sectional Meeting of the AMS at University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, held April 5-6, 2014.

• There will be a Special Session on Commutative Algebra organized by Daniel J. Hernandez, Karen E. Smith, and Emily E. Witt. Here is the AMS page for the Session.
• There will be a Special Session on Interactions in Commutative Algebra organized by Louiza Fouli, Bruce Olberding, and Janet Vassilev. Here is the AMS page for the Session.
• Also, Karen E. Smith of the University of Michigan will be giving one of the plenary addresses.

The Southeastern Spring Sectional Meeting of the AMS will be held at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Knoxville, TN, March 21-23, 2014 (Friday – Sunday). This meeting will include a Special Session on Commutative Ring Theory (in honor of the retirement of David E. Dobbs) co-organized by David Anderson, University of Tennessee, Knoxville and Jay Shapiro, George Mason University.