Category: Conference Listings

International Conference on Ring and Module Theory, Ankara, Turkey

Hacettepe University (Beytepe Campus) at Ankara, Turkey will host the International Conference on Ring and Module Theory from August 18-22, 2008. The program will consist of Plenary talks (approx. 45 min.) and Regular talks (20-25 min.). Confirmed plenary speakers include:

  • Prof. Dr. Toma ALBU (Institute of Mathematics, Romanian Academy, Bucharest)
  • Prof. Dr. Edgar ENOCHS (University of KENTUCKY)
  • Prof. Dr. Surender K. JAIN (OHIO University)
  • Prof. Dr. Friedrich KASCH (University of MUNICH)
  • Prof. Dr. Lance W. SMALL (University of CALIFORNIA, San Diego)
  • Prof. Dr. Patrick F. SMITH (University of GLASGOW)
  • Prof. Dr. Roger WIEGAND (University of NEBRASKA)
  • Prof. Dr. Efim I. ZELMANOV (University of CALIFORNIA, San Diego)

Participants pay either: (1) Basic Registration Fee of approximately $100 USD, €75 or 130 YTL which will include conference materials, social program, tea and coffees and bus transportation, or (2) Full Registration Fee of approximately $450 USD, or 325euros which will cover the Basic Registration Fee, accomodation (on Campus) and meals (breakfast, light lunch, dinner).
The deadline for preliminary registration and submission of an abstract is May 1, 2008. Conference details and registration, along with more information, can be found on the conference website.

Ann Arbor 2008: Conference in honor of Mel Hochster

A conference will take place in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in honor of Mel Hochster’s 65th birthday. It is scheduled for July 31–August 5, 2008, and details will be forthcoming.
The organizers are Craig Huneke, Anurag Singh, and Karen Smith.
update: The dates of the conference are now July 31–August 5, and there is a web page, including a list of speakers.

Macaulay2 at Snowbird

We received the following announcement from Dan Grayson:
Dear Macaulay 2 user,
With funding from the NSF, we are organizing a Macaulay 2 workshop, for the period Saturday, June 28, 2008 to Thursday, July 3, just after the MRC meetings of the AMS. Pending final confirmation, the location of the workshop will be Snowbird, Utah. Travel days will be the Saturday and the Thursday, and activities will start Saturday evening. (This is not the same event as the Macaulay 2 conference in March.)
The purpose of the workshop is to bring the Macaulay 2 developers together with those who would like to share or to develop their skills at writing packages for Macaulay 2 and at developing the corresponding mathematical algorithms. Sample software projects that might be undertaken are visible here.
Attendance is by invitation only, and financial support is available for approximately 15 people. If you would like to attend, please let us know as soon as possible. Everyone interested is 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,
  2. a good estimate of travel expenses, and whether you would require financial support for housing and meals, 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, we may ask you to pay the additional cost of $52 per night).
  3. your current institution, and if you are a graduate student, your advisor’s name.

We would like to receive applications by March 1 (THIS SATURDAY) and to allocate funds to participants by March 15.
Our organizer for the workshop is Amelia Taylor, and applications should be directed to her.
A few other pieces of information you may need:

  1. If we pay for your travel, it should be on an American air carrier, if at all possible.
  2. Please commit to being present for the entire workshop.
  3. Our meals will be joint and our menus will be arranged in advance.
  4. You will need to bring your laptop with Macaulay 2 on it to the workshop.

David Eisenbud
Daniel R. Grayson
Michael E. Stillman
Amelia Taylor

Fez Conference 2008

The Faculty of Science and Technology (FST) Fez-Saiss, University S. M. Ben Abdellah organizes the fifth international Fez conference on commutative algebra and applications during the period of June 23 – 27, 2008 at Fez, Morocco. The purpose of the conference is to present recent progress and new trends in commutative algebra and applications.
For more information, see the conference website.

Computational Algebra & Convexity Workshop at Snowbird

The AMS’s new program, Mathematics Research Communities (MRC), will feature in its first year a Workshop in Computational Algebra & Convexity, June 21-27, 2008.
The workshop is aimed at peridoctoral students at U.S. institutions (where “peridoctoral” means 2 years before or after the Ph.D.). It will be held at the Snowbird Resort outside Salt Lake City, UT. The organizers are H. Schenck (UIUC), M. Stillman (Cornell), and J. Verschelde (UIC); the deadline for applications is March 1, 2008.
For more information, please see the MRC web page, or a recent article in the Notices of the AMS (PDF link).

Athens OH 2008: Algebra and its Applications

In honor of the seventieth birthday of Surender K. Jain, Ohio University will hold a Conference on Algebra and its Applications, June 18-21, 2008. The Conference is dedicated to recent developments in classical Ring Theory, Module Theory, Representation Theory, Group Algebras, Rings with Polynomial Identities, and related topics including applications.
There will be invited and contributed talks; the deadline for submitting abstracts for all talks is May 15, 2008.
For registration, submission of abstract, and other information, please see the conference web page.