Category: Conference Listings

The 2009 Spring Central Section Meeting of the AMS will be held in Urbana, IL, March 27-29, 2009. There will be a Special Session on Local and Homological Methods in Commutative Algebra organized by Florian Enescu and Sandra Spiroff. For more information on the session, the the website maintained by the organizers or the AMS website for the session.

The Eighth Colloquiumfest will be held in New York City at the CUNY Graduate Center on March 6-7, 2009.
The event will present invited talks on valuation theory and algebraic geometry, orderings and model theory.
A tentative list of speakers includes Dale Cutkosky (Missouri), Samar El Hitti (New York City College of Technology), Krishna Hanumanthu (University of Kansas), Olga Kashcheyeva (University of Illinois at Chicago), Kiran Kedlaya (MIT), Philipp Rothmaler (CUNY – Bronx Community College), and Michael Temkin (University of Pennsylvania).
For more information, please see the Colloquiumfest web page.

The 2nd Bluegrass Algebra Conference will be held in Lexington, Kentucky, during the period March 6-8, 2009. The conference continues a well established tradition of commutative algebra and algebraic geometry meetings in the Midwest. In order to enhance the visibility of mathematics among the diverse population of the University of Kentucky students, the conference will be preceded by a lecture aimed at the undergraduate level. The lecture will be delivered by Professor David Cox (Amherst College) and it is scheduled at 4:00 pm on Thursday, March 5, 2009. The official beginning of the conference will be marked by a colloquium talk delivered by Professor Steven Kleiman (MIT), which is scheduled at 4:00 pm on Friday, March 6, 2009. The (incomplete) list of distinguished researchers that have agreed to give a talk during this series of events includes:

• David Cox, Amherst College
• Lawrence Ein, University of Illinois at Chicago
• Steven Kleiman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Andrew Kustin, University of South Carolina
• Sonja Petrovic, University of Illinois at Chicago
• Paul Roberts, University of Utah
• Maria Evelina Rossi, Università di Genova (Italy)
• Hal Schenck, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Javid Validashti, University of Kansas

For more information, please see the conference webpage.

The 4th World Conference on 21st Century Mathematics, 2009 will be held March 4-8, 2009 at the Abdus Salam School of Mathematical Sciences in Lahore, Pakistan. More information on the conference can be found at the meeting website.

The algebra group of the University of Cologne will hold a Workshop on Representations and Cohomology at Koeln, March 1 to March 6, 2009. The workshop will include lecture series by Eric Friedlander, Srikanth Iyengar and Changchang Xi; lectures by Claire Amiot, Osamu Iyama, Bernhard Keller, Matthias Kuenzer, Steffen Oppermann, Dan Zacharia; and further talks to be announced later.
For more information, including accommodation, registration, and support, please see the web page for the Workshop.

GSU-USC Commutative Algebra Seminar
Atlanta, GA February 27- March 1, 2009
Organizers: Florian Enescu and Yongwei Yao
The seminar represents a collaborative effort of commutative algebraists at Georgia State University and University of South Carolina to increase exposure of their research area in the South-East through periodic meetings. For more info please go to: http://www2.gsu.edu/~matfxe/gsu-usc/seminar.html

The CIMPA School “Combinatorial and Computational aspects of Commutative Algebra” will be held in Lahore, Pakistan 21-28 February 2009. For more information, see the CIMPA website or the local website maintained by the organizers.

Combinatorial Algebra meets Algebraic Combinatorics, Sixth Annual Meeting
Location: Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Canada, January 16 – 18, 2009
Invited Speakers:

• Marcelo Aguiar (Texas A&M University)
• Francois Bergeron (UQAM, Montreal)
• Jaydeep Chipalkatti (University of Manitoba)
• Olga Kharlampovich (McGill University)
• Hugh Thomas (University of New Brunswick)
• Jerzy Weyman (Northeastern University)

Organizers:

• Yuri Bahturin (Memorial University)
• Nantel Bergeron (York University)
• Sara Faridi (Dalhousie University)
• Tony Geramita (Queen’s University and University of Genoa)
• Mikhail Kotchetov (Memorial University)

For more information, see the website for the meeting.

At the Joint Mathematics Meetings in Washington, DC, there will be at least two special sessions of interest to commutative algebraists.
There will be a Special Session on Commutative Rings January 7-8, 2009 and a Special Session on Computational Algebra and Convexity January 7, 2009.

The International Centre for Theoretical Sciences at the Tata Institute for Fundamental Research, India, will host a Conference on ‘Affine Algebraic Geometry’ 22–28 December, 2008. The conference will take place at the Fireflies Intercultural Centre, Bangalore.
The conference website contains a schedule of talks, speakers, and abstracts, as well as information about travel, accommodation, and registration.