Category: Conference Listings

In honor of the 60th birthday of Luchezar Avramov, the University of Nebraska will host a week-long conference in Commutative Algebra in May 2008, organized by Lars Winther Christensen, Srikanth Iyengar, and Roger Wiegand. The tentative dates for the conference are May 18–22.
Eventually, more information (including firm dates etc.) will appear on the conference web page.
update 31 August: the link above for the conference web page has changed; the new page now has information on the schedule, registration, travel and accommodations, and a list of confirmed speakers.

The GSU-USC Commutative Algebra Seminar, April 25-27 2008, Atlanta.
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. The organizers for this meeting in Atlanta are Florian Enescu and Yongwei Yao. The speakers are:

• Ian M. Aberbach
• Joe Brennan
• Tai Ha
• Andrew Kustin
• Liana Sega
• Adela Vraciu
• Diana White

More information can be found on the web page of the seminar.

The University of Illinois at Chicago will host a conference in Algebraic Geometry and Commutative Algebra on April 11-13, 2008, to celebrate Robin Hartshorne’s 70th birthday. The speakers include:

• Marta Casanellas (Barcelona)
• David Gieseker (U.C.L.A.)
• Mark Gross (San Diego)
• Robin Hartshorne (U.C. Berkeley)
• Melvin Hochster (Michigan)
• Craig Huneke (Kansas)
• Rob Lazarsfeld (Michigan)
• Juan Migliore (Notre Dame)
• David Mumford (Brown)
  Ignacio Sols (Madrid)

For more information, including the organizing committee and information about housing and transportation, see the conference web page.

The 2008 Spring Central Section Meeting of the AMS will be held April 5-6, 2008 at Indiana University, Bloomington IN. Juan Migliore and Uwe Nagel are organizing a Special Session on “Combinatorial and Geometric Aspects of Commutative Algebra”. For more information, see the AMS web page for the meeting.

Zach Teitler (Texas A&M University) and Kent Neuerburg (Southeastern Louisiana University) are organizing a Special Session on Algebraic Geometry of Matrices and Determinants at the Baton Rouge AMS sectional meeting in March 2008. More information is available at the AMS web page for this session.

There will be a conference on Commutative Algebra in Yokohama, Japan, March 17–21 2008. The conference is organized by Shiro Goto, Kei-ichi Watanabe, Koji Nishida, and Kazuhiko Kurano.
The main theme of the conference is the recent trends on commutative algebra, including the following topics.

• Blow-up algebras (Rees algebras of ideals and modules, graded rings associated to ideals, fiber cones of ideals)
• Hilbert functions and Sally modules
• Integral closures of ideals and rings, tight closures, multiplier ideals
• Homological conjectures
• Invariant theory
• Representation theory of local algebras

For more information, please see the conference web site.

Cornell University will host the first Macaulay2 conference, organized by Macaulay2 authors Mike Stillman and Dan Grayson, together with David Eisenbud, March 16-19, 2008.
The meeting will begin with some surveys of recent work on the Boij-Soederberg conjectures, in which Macaulay2 has already played a major role. Starting the second day there will be talks of different kinds. Some will present more research for which Macaulay2 was useful or would likely be useful. Others will present useful algorithms or packages written in Macaulay2; or algorithms that would be useful in a future version of Macaulay2. Not everyone coming will be a Macaulay2 expert, so this would also be an opportunity to learn Macaulay2 or to improve your Macaulay2 skills. There is no registration fee.
For more information, including registration, hotel and travel information, and funding, please see the conference web page.

Workshop in Celebration of Mark Green’s 60th Birthday: Hodge Theory and Algebraic Geometry
February 22 – 23, 2008
UCLA Department of Mathematics
This workshop will focus on recent work by a number of distinguished researchers in Hodge theory and algebraic geometry. It is also an opportunity to recognize Mark Green’s contributions to Mathematics.
Dr. Green obtained his PhD from Princeton, where his thesis adviser was Phillip Griffiths. After teaching at Berkeley and MIT, he came to UCLA as an Assistant Professor in 1975. Dr. Green’s research has taken him into several areas of mathematics–several complex variables, differential geometry, commutative algebra, Hodge theory and algebraic geometry. He received an Alfred P. Sloan fellowship and was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin. Along with Eitan Tadmor, he was one of IPAM’s Founding Co-Directors. He has been Director of IPAM since 2002 and is responsible for its remarkable success.
Organizing Committee

• David Gieseker , Chair (UCLA, Mathematics)
• David Eisenbud (University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley))
• Phillip Griffiths (Institute for Advanced Study)
• Stan Osher (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Mathematics)

Speakers

• James Carlson (Clay Mathematics Institute)
• Herb Clemens (Ohio State University)
• Ron Donagi (University of Pennsylvania)
• David Eisenbud (University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley))
• Phillip Griffiths (Institute for Advanced Study)
• Peter Jones (Yale University)
• Robert Lazarsfeld (University of Michigan)
• Stefan Muller-Stach (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz)
• Madhav Nori (University of Chicago)
• Stan Osher (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))
• Chris Peters (Université de Grenoble I (Joseph Fourier))
• Christoph Thiele (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))

More information and a registration form is available online at http://www.ipam.ucla.edu/programs/ht2008/. Please register in advance. There is no registration fee for the workshop. There will be an optional dinner held on Friday night in honor of Mark Green; a fee will be charged to those who attend.
For further information, send an email to ht2008@ipam.ucla.edu.

The Departamento de Algebra of the Universidad de Sevilla, will host a Conference on Commutative, Combinatorial, and Computational Algebra in Memory of Pilar Pisón-Casares. The conference will run February 11-16, 2008.
Invited speakers include:

• Klaus Altmann
• Mats Boij
• Ana Bravo
• Winfried Bruns
• Antonio Campillo
• Marta Casanellas
• Marc Chardin
• Alicia Dickenstein
• David Eisenbud
• Elisa Gorla
• Gert-Martin Greuel
• Sabir Gusein-Zade
• Juergen Herzog
• Takayuki Hibi
• Ilia Itenberg
• Diane Maclagan
• Thomas Markwig
• Juan C. Migliore
• Ezra Miller
• Ignacio Ojeda
• Aron Simis
• Bernd Sturmfels
• Bernard Teissier
• Santiago Zarzuela

For more information, including the Scientific and Organizing Committees, as well as information on registration, accommodation, and the program, please see the conference web site.
Participants who have registered by December 10, 2007, will have the opportunity to present their mathematical work in the form of a poster. Please see the conference web site for more details.

Combinatorial Algebra meets Algebraic Combinatorics
Fifth Annual Meeting
Dalhousie University,
Halifax, Canada
January 18 – 20, 2008
This meeting is a continuation of four previous annual workshops focusing on the interplay between commutative algebra (particularly, resolutions and inverse systems) and algebraic combinatorics (the representation theory of symmetric groups).
Invited Speakers (pending confirmation):

• Yuri Bahturin (Memorial University, St. John’s)
• Francois Bergeron (UQAM, Montreal)
• Nantel Bergeron (York University, Toronto)
• Tony Geramita (Queen’s University, Kingston)
• Greg Smith (Queen’s University, Kingston)
• Mike Zabrocki (York University, Toronto)

Organizers:

• Sara Faridi (Dalhousie University, Halifax)
• John Irving (Saint Mary’s University, Halifax)
• Hugh Thomas (University of New Brunswick, Fredericton)

If you are interested in attending and giving a talk, please contact one of the organizers. There is some funding available to help with expenses. For more information, please write to the organizers.