Category: Conference Listings

The “Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry Conference”, organized by Alberto Corso, Sankar Dutta, Claudia Polini, and Hal Schenck, will be held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Urbana, Illinois) during the period November 4 – 6, 2011.
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 October 1, 2011.
For more information, please visit the website: http://www.math.illinois.edu/Urbana2011/
update 24 August 2011: changed deadline for financial support.

The 2011 Fall Western Sectional Meeting of the AMS will be held at the University of Utah, October 22-23, 2011. This meeting will include a Special Session on Algebraic Geometry and a Special Session on Commutative Algebra. See the session web page for more information.
update:The AMS is offering travel grants for this meeting. See this post for more information.

There will be an International School on computational commutative algebra and algebraic geometry 17-29 October 2011 in Messina, Villa Pace, Italy.
The aim of the school is to introduce young mathematicians to recent developments in Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry emphasizing the connection with Combinatorics.
The program will be as follows.
Lectures, 17-21 October:

• Juergen Herzog (University of Essen, Germany): Selected applications of Groebner bases theory in Commutative Algebra.
• Volkmar Welker (University of Marburg, Germany) : Selected applications of Combinatorics in Commutative Algebra.

Lectures, 24-28 October:

• Cristodor Ionescu (Academy of Bucarest, Romania): Algebraic invariants of commutative rings with geometric applications.
• Mustapha Lahyane (University of Michoacan, Mexico): Geometry of Rational Surfaces  with a  View Toward Coding Theory.

29 October: Workshop
Scientific commitee:

• Juergen Herzog (University of Essen)
• Gaetana Restuccia (University of Messina)

For more information, please contact

• Gaetana Restuccia
  E-mail: gaetana.restuccia <-At-> unime.it
• Giancarlo Rinaldo
  E-mail: giancarlo.rinaldo <-At-> tiscali.it

Website: http://ww2.unime.it/algebra/scws2011.html
Address: Dipartimento di Matematica, Facoltà di Scienze, Università degli studi, Viale F. Stagno D’Alcontres, 31, 98166 Messina.

The Fall Central Section Meeting of the AMS will be held at the University of Nebrask-Lincoln, October 14-16, 2011 (Friday – Sunday). This meeting will include at least three special sessions of interest to the commalg community:

• Special Session on Algebraic Geometry and Graded Commutative Algebra co-organized by Susan Cooper and Brian Harbourne.
• Special Session on Local Commutative Algebra co-organized by H Ananthnarayan, Ines B. Henriques and Hamid Rahmati.
• Special Session on Commutative Algebra co-organized by Christina Eubanks-Turner and Aihua Li.

update: The AMS is offering travel grants for this meeting. See this post for more information.
update 2011-10-20/28: Brian Harbourne from UNL is hosting group photos and PDFs of slides from the sessions. Go see! In particular, here are photo 1 and photo 2.
commalg.org is also hosting some of the material from the special Appreciation Event for Roger and Sylvia Wiegand, titled “The Wiegands’ Algebra Family”:

• The presentation in PowerPoint or PDF.
• The Wiegands’ mathematical family trees, combined
• Roger’s mathematical family tree with students and grandstudents
• Sylvia’s mathematical family tree with students and grandstudents
• Showercap photo

The 21st annual Route 81 Conference on Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry will be held Saturday, September 24, 2011, at Cornell University.
If you would like to give a talk, contact the organizers and also send a title and short abstract. We might need to limit the number of talks to ensure enough time for discussions.
Please let one of the organizers know if you plan to attend, and whether you will be in town friday night for dinner.
For more information, see the conference web site.
Organizers:
— Mike Stillman (mike at math.cornell.edu)
— Irena Peeva (irena at math.cornell.edu)
— Kristine Jones (kej27 at cornell.edu)

The National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and CIMPA will sponsor a Summer School on the topic Singularities: algebra, geometry and applications in Kiev, Ukraine, August 8–19 2011.
The aim of the Summer School is to introduce younger researchers and graduate students to modern trends of the theory of singularities, including both algebraic and geometric aspects, and both classical approaches and the newest ones, related to derived categories, noncommutative geometry, representation theory, tropical geometry, etc. In particular, introductory courses in these areas will be given.
The lecture courses will include:

• Isolated Gorenstein Singularities (R.-O.Buchweitz, University of Toronto)
• Cohen-Macaulay modules over surface singularities (I.Burban, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitaet Bonn)
• Derived categories and tilting with applications to singularities (I.Drozd, Institute of Mathematics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine)
• Lie algebras and singularity theory (A.Elashvili, Mathematical Institute of Georgian Academy of Science)
• Invariants and deformations of hypersurface singularities (G.-M.Greuel, Universitaet Kaiserslautern)
• Poincaré series of filtrations, integrals with respect to the Euler characteristic, and monodromy zeta-functions (S.Gusein-Zade, Moscow State University)
• Vanishing cycles of polynomial functions (M.Tibar, Universite de Lille 1, and D.Siersma, Universiteit Utrecht)
• SINGULAR in the theory of singularities (O.Drozd-Koroleva, Kiev Taras Shevchenko University)

There will also be talks by the participants.
For more information, including a registration form, see the web site for the Summer School.

The First Latin American School on Algebraic Geometry and Applications / Primera Escuela Latinoamericana de Geometría Algebraica y Aplicaciones (ELGA 2011) will take place in Argentina in August 2011.
There will be one week of Courses, primarily for graduate students, followed by a Workshop/Conference during the second week.
The dates and locations are:
Courses: 1/August – 5/August/2011, Buenos Aires (Argentina).
Conference/Workshop: 8/August – 12/August/2011, Córdoba (Argentina).
This is a CIMPA School an external activity of the ICTP and the 4th. Luis Santaló School (Departamento de Matemática, FCEN-Universidad de Buenos Aires).
ACADEMIC PROGRAM:
First Week: SCHOOL
1/August – 5/August/2011, Buenos Aires (Argentina).
The following courses will be offered:
1) Intersection Theory: Joe Harris (Harvard, USA).
2) Deformation Theory: Robin Hartshorne (Berkeley, USA).
3) Tropical Algebraic Geometry: Diane Maclagan (Warwick, England).
4) Algebraic Geometric Codes: Peter Beelen (Copenhaguen, Denmark).
Second Week: CONFERENCE/WORKSHOP
8/August – 12/August/2011, Córdoba (Argentina).
The program consists of Plenary Lectures and several special Sessions.
Please consult the web page for details and updates.
More information (including the REGISTRATION form) may be found at the web page.
The organizers expect to obtain financial support to cover lodging expenses for invited speakers and selected Latin American participants.
DEADLINE to apply for financial support: May 20, 2011.

The “monica conference” MONomial Ideals, Computations and Applications will be held at the CIEM Castro Urdiales (Cantabria, Spain) July 11-13, 2011. more information can be found at the conference website.

The Max-Planck-Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences (MPI MIS) and the University of Leipzig are organizing a workshop on “Combinatorial Methods in Algebraic Geometry and Commutative Algebra”, that takes place at the Max-Planck-Institute from July 5th to July 7th, 2011.
Speakers will include:
– Winfried Bruns (Universität Osnabrück, Germany)
– Thomas Kahle (Institut Mittag-Leffler, Sweden, and Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik in den Naturwissenschaften, Germany)
– Tim Römer (Universität Osnabrück, Germany)
– Bernd Sturmfels (University of California, USA)
– Santiago Zarzuela (Universitat de Barcelona, Spain)
Further information about the workshop, including online registration, can be found on the webpage for the workshop.

The IPM School of Mathematics in Tehran will organize a workshop on Computational Commutative Algebra, July 2–7, 2011. The organizers are Hossein Sabzrou (University of Tehran and IPM) and Rashid Zaare-Nahandi (IASBS, Zanjan).
Speakers:
* Mohamed Barakat, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany: Computational Homological Methods in Commutative Algebra
* Massimo Caboara, University of Pisa, Italy: CoCoA Tutorials
* Jürgen Herzog, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany: Generic Initial Ideals
* Maria Rossi, Università degli Studi di Genova, Italy: Castelnuovo-Mumford Regularity
* Andreas Steenpass, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany: SINGULAR Tutorials
Please see the workshop web site for more information, including the program, registration info, and travel info.