Category: Conference Listings

Wake Forest: M2

With funding from the National Science Foundation and National Security Agency,
a Macaulay2 workshop will be held Sunday, August 5, 2012 through
Thursday, August 9, 2012 with Saturday, August 4 and Friday, August 10 serving
as the travel days. The workshop will be at Wake Forest University in
Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Activities will start first thing Sunday morning
(possibly Saturday night).
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
Macaulay 2 and those interested in developing the corresponding mathematical
algorithms. Some sample software projects that might be undertaken are visible
at http://www.math.uiuc.edu/Macaulay2/dev/projects/ although the organizers are also
looking for participants who might have new packages they are interested
in. Further examples of possible projects are available as part of past
workshop topics, which can be viewed at

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 projects 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 the organizers 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. 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, the organizers 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 Monday, April 16, 2012 and the organizers hope to allocate funds to participants by Tuesday, May 1, 2012.
The application page is available here
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.

Organizers:

  • David Eisenbud
  • Daniel R. Grayson
  • Frank Moore
  • Michael E. Stillman
  • Amelia Taylor

π-School: Seattle

There will be a Summer School and Workshop on “Cohomology and Support in Representation Theory” in Seattle, Washington, July 27–August 5, 2012. The Seattle Summer π-School will run July 27–30, and the conference will be held August 1–5.
From the website:

The theme of this two week event will be a survey of the state of the art in the use of cohomology and supports in the study of representation theory. The first week will be a prepatory summer school intended for graduate students, recent doctoral recipients, or others new to the field to introduce the fundamental ideas. Three speakers will each present a series of four lectures. The second week of the conference will consist of talks on latest develoments in the field with ample time for discussion and collaboration.

The summer school speakers will be Paul Balmer, Dave Benson, and Srikanth Iyengar. See the web page for more information about the school and the conference.

Stockholm: Discrete Morse Theory and Commutative Algebra

Summer School
Discrete Morse Theory and Commutative Algebra
July 18 – August 1, 2012 at Institut Mittag Leffler, Stockholm, Sweden
Organized by Bruno Benedetti and Alexander Engström.
The summer school will focus on recent developments in combinatorial topology and discrete geometry, with an emphasis on the interaction with toric geometry and commutative algebra. A promising contemporary method for getting simple explicit descriptions of topological spaces is discrete Morse theory. Its applications range from real world problems, such as shape recognition, to theoretical studies of topological spaces, which encode important invariants from algebra, geometry and topology.
Program participants will learn how to use these state-of-the-art tools to investigate a variety of topics such as: complements of hyperplane arrangements, resolutions of monomial and toric ideals, knots in triangulated manifolds, metric structures on simplicial complexes, spaces realizing desired cohomology rings, and topological representations of matroids.
Practical information:
Free accommodation and meals are provided. Visitors are responsible to pay for their own travel costs to and from Djursholm/Stockholm, Sweden. However, the Institute has some limited funds available to assist those visitors whose home institutions or research grants cannot pay for their travel costs. Please let us know as soon as possible if you need travel support.
Apply at latest by April 15, 2012 at http://www.mittag-leffler.se/summer2012/summerschools/discrete_morse_theory/.

Paris: Additive Combinatorics

Additive Combinatorics in Paris 2012, at the IHP, Paris, France from July 9th – 13th, 2012.
Details at http://caparis2012.wordpress.com/
“Additive Combinatorics in Paris 2012” will be held at the Institut Henri Poincaré in Paris during the week 9th-13th July 2012. The conference will be dedicated to the memory of Yahya ould Hamidoune, who passed away earlier this year. As such, the scope of the conference encompasses topics in additive and combinatorial number theory, additive group theory, graph theory and probabilistic combinatorics as well as adjacent fields.
In particular, this also includes certain topics on the arithmetic of commutative domains and monoids (Dedekind, Krull, numerical,…), in which Yahya had an active interest, where methods from additive combinatorics are key. There will be at least two talks, by A.Geroldinger (plenary) and S.T.Chapman. which will discuss such arithmetic aspects.
There will be a special talk on Yahya’s mathematical achievements, a movie documenting his battle against environmental destruction in his native Mauritania as well as a themed conference dinner.

IMA summer school at GTech

The Institute for Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) will hold a 2012 PI Summer Graduate Program on “Algebraic Geometry for Applications” at Georgia Tech, June 18 – July 6, 2012. The program is currently:
Organizers and Main Lecturers

  • Greg Blekherman School of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Anton Leykin School of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Josephine Yu School of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology

Guest Lecturers

  • Alicia Dickenstein University of Buenos Aires
  • Diane Maclagan University of Warwick
  • Pablo Parrilo Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Mike Stillman Cornell University
  • Bernd Sturmfels UC Berkeley
  • Rekha Thomas University of Washington
  • Charles Wampler General Motors

For more information, see the IMA web page for the Summer School, or the Georgia Tech page for the Summer School.

Bluegrass Algebra, Lexington

The “3rd Bluegrass Algebra Conference,” organized by Alberto Corso, Claudia Polini, Bernd Ulrich and Javid Validashti, will be held at the University of Kentucky (Lexington) during the period June 14-16, 2012.
This conference continues a well established tradition of Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry meetings in the Midwest. Young mathematicians are especially encouraged to attend. There is a limited amount of support provided by the National Science Foundation through the Special Algebra Meetings in the Midwest grant (NSF DMS-0753127). The deadline for being considered for financial support is June 1, 2012.
For more information, please visit the website: http://www.ms.uky.edu/~corso/BAC3_2012

Hyperplanes in Pyrénées

There will be a school and conference on hyperplane arrangements and related topics, June 11-15 in Pau (France), mostly addressed to Ph.D. students and young researchers but also of interest for experienced researchers.

Main lectures

E. Artal Bartolo (University of Zaragoza) “Topology of arrangements and position of singularities”
L. Paris (Universite de Bourgogne) “Hyperplane arrangements and Artin groups”
G. Denham (University of Western Ontario) “Commutative algebra and algebraic geometry of hyperplane arrangements”
A. Suciu (University of Northeastern) “Topology of the Milnor fibration of hyperplane arrangements”
M. Yoshinaga (University of Kyoto) “Freeness of hyperplane arrangements and divisors”

Invited speakers

N. Budur (University of Notre Dame)
F. Callegaro (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa)
A. Dimca (Universite de Nice – Sophia Antipolis) – to be confirmed
M. Granger (Universite d’Angers) – to be confirmed
S. Yuzvinsky (University of Oregon)

Scientific committee

A. Libgober (University of Illinois at Chicago)
S. Papadima (IMAR Bucharest)
M. Salvetti (Universita di Pisa)

Organizers

D. Faenzi (Pau)
V. Florens (Pau)
D. Matei (IMAR Bucharest)
J. Vallès (Pau)

Web page

lma.univ-pau.fr/equipes/algebre-geometrie/arrangements/

Deadlines

Registration is required by April 15. Applications for funding and for contributed talks will be considered until March 15th. Check out the registration page on our the school’s web page.

Aims of the school

The school’s lectures will be mainly aimed at Ph. D. students and young researchers, and should be of interest for all researchers in this area of mathematics, as it should cover many of the combinatorial, topological, algebraic and geometric aspects of the topic. Participants are encouraged to propose contributed talks of 30 minutes.

Sponsors

The school is financed by the ANR projects ANR Interlow, ANR GeoLMI, by the department of mathematics LMA in Pau, by the Institut Pluridisciplinaire de Recherche Appliquee, by GDR Geometrie Algebrique et Geometrie Complexe, GDR Tresses, GDR Singularites, Conseil de la Recherche de l’Universite de Pau, Conseil Regional d’Aquitaine, Communaute d’agglomeraiton de Pau, Conseil General 64.
The school will take place at Pau’s university Campus. Lectures should begin on Monday 11 in the morning, and end on Friday the 15th before lunch.
For more information, see the web page for the school.