Category: Conference Listings

Positive Characteristic Algebraic Geometry Workshop
March 21 – 23, 2014 at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC)
Organized by Zsolt Patakfalvi, Karl Schwede, and Kevin Tucker
Description: This workshop, aimed at graduate students and young postdocs, will expose participants to the use of Frobenius in the study of local singularities and global higher dimensional geometry in positive characteristic. We hope to incorporate a mix of introductory talks and problem sessions in groups, and will focus on presenting a number of open questions with sufficient background to be worked on both during and after the workshop.
The funding for this workshop comes from a National Science Foundation Research Training Grant (DMS 1246844).
Important Dates/Information:
Limited funding for travel and lodging is available — to apply, simply indicate that funding is needed when submitting the registration form on this website. The deadline for consideration for funding is February 1.
Participants should plan to arrive in Chicago in the afternoon on Friday, March 21, and the first session of the workshop will be on Friday evening. The workshop will conclude with lunch on Sunday, and participants can plan to depart from Chicago in the afternoon on Sunday, March 23.

MOCCA 2014: Meeting On Combinatorial Commutative Algebra 2014.
The meeting will take place September 8-12, 2014, with the 7th and 13th as travel days. The meeting will be held in the Bellavista Relax Hotel in Levico Terme (Löweneck), a municipality in Trentino in the northern Italian region Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, located about 15 km southeast of Trento.
See the conference website for more information

Combinatorial Algebra meets Algebraic Combinatorics
Eleventh Annual Meeting
Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS
January 24 – 26, 2014
Description
The purpose of this conference is to encourage unique collaborations between combinatorial algebraists and algebraic combinatorics. This is both a regional meeting and an opportunity for researchers with similar mathematical interests but variations of focus to develop and exchange ideas
Dates and Location
The meeting will take place starting in the afternoon of Friday, January 24th, 2014 and end early in the afternoon on Sunday, January 26th, 2014 and will take place at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Invited Speakers
The following people agreed to be our main speakers.

• Drew Armstrong (University of Miami)
• tentative: Ezra Miller (Duke University)
• tentative: Mike Roth (Queens University)
• Mark Skandera (Lehigh University)
• Julianna Tymoczko (Smith College)

In addition to the invited speakers there is opportunity for a limited number of submitted presentations. If you are interested in giving a talk, please email Sara Faridi (faridi@mathstat.dal.ca) with a title and abstract before November 15.
Online registration and application for support
Registration and application for funding for the Combinatorial Algebra meets Algebraic Combinatorics Meeting January 24-26, 2014 will be handled online. There will be a registration fee to offset the hosting costs. Details will be forthcoming.
There are some limited funds for support for travel. The application for travel support has a deadline of November 15, 2013. Please send an email to Mike Zabrocki (zabrocki@mathstat.yorku.ca). Students and post-docs should have a supervisor write an email letter of support to explain need and other sources of funding.
Organizers

• Sara Faridi (faridi@mathstat.dal.ca)
• Hugh Thomas (hthomas@unb.ca)
• Mike Zabrocki (zabrocki@mathstat.yorku.ca)

Please contact any of the organizers if you have any questions about the conference.
Additional information is available and will be posted at the
website for the conference:
http://garsia.math.yorku.ca/CAAC_2014/

The 2014 Joint Mathematics Meetings will be held in Baltimore, MD, January 15-18, 2014 (Wednesday – Saturday). This meeting will include an AMS Special Session on Homological and Characteristic p Methods in Commutative Algebra on the 16th and 17th, co-organized by Neil Epstein, George Mason University, Sean Sather-Wagstaff, North Dakota State University, and Karl Schwede, Penn State University.

From the organizers:

Dear Macaulay2 user,
We are organizing a Macaulay2 workshop, from Monday, January 6, 2014 through Friday, January 10, 2014 with Sunday, January 5 and Saturday, January 11 serving as the travel days. The workshop will be at the University of California, Berkeley, in Berkeley, CA. Activities will start first thing Monday morning (possibly Sunday 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. 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 20-30 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:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dGRwZUdJWE9HZWdkdjBrMWpYVWhoVUE6MA#gid=0
Your application should include:
1. information about what projects/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. 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 may be in limited supply; if additional single rooms are available, and you want one, we may ask you to pay any additional cost).
3. your current institution and rank, and if you are a graduate student, your advisor’s name.
Applications are due by 11:59pm on Monday, September 30, 2013. We plan to allocate funds to participants by Friday, October 11, 2013.
A few other pieces of information you may need:
1. Please commit to being present for the entire workshop.
2. You will need to bring your laptop with Macaulay2 on it to the workshop.
Sincerely,
Sonja Mapes,
Frank Moore, and
David Swinarski,
the organizers

There will be a conference on “Commutative Algebra and its interaction to Algebraic Geometry and Combinatorics” in Hanoi, December 16-20, 2013.
The aim of the Conference is to present recent developments in Commutative Algebra and its interaction in Algebraic Geometry and Combinatorics. There will be also discussion on how to promote mathematics in Vietnam.
Host institutions:

• Institute of Mathematics Hanoi
• Vietnam Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics

Organisation committee: N. T. Cuong (Hanoi), N. V. Dung (Hanoi), D. Eisenbud (Berkeley), S. Goto (Tokyo), J. Herzog (Essen), L. T. Hoa (Hanoi)
Visit the conference site for more details: http://vie.math.ac.vn/CA-2013/

The 35th Japan Symposium on Commutative Algebra will be held in Kyoto, Japan, 2-6 December 2013. For more information please see the web page for the Symposium.
The deadline for application for travel support is 16th September.

The University of South Carolina will host “Commutative Algebra — Algebraic Geometry in the Southeast” in Columbia, SC, November 8 –10, 2013. The conference will last from 3:30 on Friday, Novemebr 8, 2013 until noon on Sunday, November 10. There will be nine lectures, a poster session, and plenty of mathematical conversation. Graduate students and recent graduates are strongly urged to present a poster in the poster session.
Current speakers include:

• Neil Epstein (George Mason University),
• Angela Gibney (University of Georgia),
• Robin Hartshorne (University of California — Berkeley),
• Craig Huneke (University of Virginia),
• Ezra Miller (Duke University),
• Joseph Rabinoff (Georgia Institute of Technology)
• Kirsten Wickelgren (Georgia Institute of Technology)

For more information, see the conference web page.

The Western Fall Sectional Meeting of the AMS will be held at the University of California Riverside, November 2-3, 2013 (Saturday – Sunday). This meeting will include a Special Session on Commutative Algebra and its Interaction with Algebraic Geometry and Combinatorics, co-organized by Kuei-Nuan Lin and Paolo Mantero, University of California, Riverside.

The Opening Colloquium of the DFG Research Training Group “Combinatorial Structures in Geometry” at the University of Osnabrück will be held Friday, 1st November, 2013. The Colloquium will feature talks by Bernd Sturmfels (University of California, Berkeley), Anita Schöbel (Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen), and Peter Gritzmann (Technische Universität, München).
For more information, see the web page for the Colloquium.