Category: Conference Listings

The Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, will host a Workshop on Combinatorics and Commutative Algebra, August 27-September 1, 2007. This is the second of a two-part workshop; the first part took place in September 2006 at the University of Ioannina, Greece.
The Thessaloniki workshop will feature a series of lectures by Jürgen Herzog and Takayuki Hibi surveying and highlighting recent developments in Commutative Algebra and Combinatorics.
For more information please contact one of the organizers, Apostolos Thoma and Hara Charalambous, or see the workshop web page.

Mircea Mustata is organizing a workshop on F-singularities and D-modules August 6 – 10, 2007 at the University of Michigan. Please see the workshop website for more information.

XVII Coloquio Latinoamericano de Algebra
Medellin, Colombia, South America
July 23 to 27, 2007
The XVII Coloquio Latinoamericano de Algebra brings together several researchers of the International Algebra Community to show their latest works. This XVII edition of the event is going to be in Medellin City, Colombia, July 23 to 27, 2007.
Deadlines
Speakers: April 20, 2007
Participants: July 23, 2007
For Participants and speakers request financial aid for hotel, meals and inscription: May 26, 2007.
Invited speakers

• Philip Kutzko (Iowa University, USA)
• Carlos Julio Moreno (CUNY, USA)
• Cesar Polcino (Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil)
• Federico Ardila (San Francisco State University, USA)
• Ivan P. Shestakov (Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil)
• Antonio Giambruno (Universita Di Palermmo, Italia)
• Eli Aljadeff (Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel)
• Ualbai Umirbaev (Universidad Nacional Euro-Asian de Astana, Kazakhstan)
• Vyacheslav Futorny (Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil)
• Le Dung Trang (International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Italy)
• Marcelo Aguiar (Texas A&M University, USA)
• Vladislav Khartchenko ( Universidad Nacional Autonóma de México, México)
• Zoran Sunic (Texas A&M University, USA )
• Angus MacIntyre (Queen Mary University of London, UK)
• Roberto Cignoli (Instituto Argentino de Matemática-CONICET, Argentina)
• Aron Simis (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brasil)
• Gerard Gonzalez Sprinberg (Institut Fourier, Université de Grenoble I, France)
• Daniel Panário (Carleton University, Canada)

Topics

• Number Theory
• Combinatorics
• Rings
• Non-associative algebras and rings
• Commutative algebra
• Algebraic Geometry
• Hopf algebras and mathematical methods in physics
• Representation theory
• Homological algebra
• Logic and Models
• Group theory
• Applications of algebra to number theory

Scientific Committee

• Carlos Julio Moreno (CUNY, USA)
• Cesar Polcino Milies (Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil)
• Federico Ardila (San Francisco State University, USA)
• Ivan P. Shestakov (Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil)
• Jose Antonio de la Peña (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico. Mexico)
• Julio Cesar Lopez (Universidad de Campinas, Brasil)
• Le Dung Trang (International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Italia)
• Marcel Morales (Institut Fourier, Université de Grenoble I, France)
• Nicolas Andruskiewisch (Universidad de Cordoba, Argentina)
• Sylvie Paycha (Universite Blaise Pascal, France)
• Olga Patricia Salazar (Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia)
• Xavier Caicedo (Universidad de los Andes, Colombia)

Local organizing committee:

• Hernán Giraldo (Coordinator), (Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia)
• Carlos Trujillo (Universidad del Cauca, Colombia)
• Mario Estrada (Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia)
• Juan Diego Velez (Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia)
• Gilberto García (Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia)
• Faber Gómez (Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia)
• Juan Miguel Velásquez (Universidad del Valle, Colombia)

Inquiries: claxvii@matematicas.udea.edu.co or cla.xvii@gmail.com
For more information about the Colloquium you can visit the main website
http://altenua.udea.edu.co/~claxvii/ and for an english version log in to http://altenua.udea.edu.co/~claxvii/inglesindex.htm.
Other:
http://www.math.binghamton.edu/cla17/
http://altenua.udea.edu.co
Participants and speakers request financial aid, please contact
Hernan Giraldo, Ph.D
Professor of Mathematics
Universidad de Antioquia
Medellin Colombia
E-mail: heragis@matematicas.udea.edu.co
Faber Gomez, MA
Universidad de Antioquia
Medellin-Colombia
E-mail: fabergomez75@gmail.com

The Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy , Bucharest, and Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Bucharest University, in cooperation with Romanian Mathematical Society and Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Ovidius University of Constanta will organize a Conference on Homological and Combinatorial Aspects in Commutative Algebra, July 5-10, 2007, in Buşteni, Romania.
Confirmed speakers so far include:

• Luchezar Avramov
• Winfried Bruns
• Craig Huneke
• Jürgen Herzog
• Takayuki Hibi
• Craig Huneke
• Mordechai Katzman
• Graham Leuschke
• Gaetana Restuccia
• Tim Römer
• Sean Sather-Wagstaff
• Peter Schenzel
• Aron Simis
• Santiago Zarzuela

For more information please see the conference web page.

International Conference on Rings and Things
Dedicated to Carl Faith on his 80th birthday and Barbara Osofsky on her 70th birthday
June 15-17, 2007
Ohio University, Zanesville Campus
Supported by: National Security Agency, Center of Ring Theory and Applications at Ohio University, and Ohio University regional campuses at Chillicothe, Lancaster, and Zanesville
Invited Speakers include:

• Victor P. Camillo (University of Iowa, USA)
• Alberto Facchini (University of Padova, Italy)
• Kent R. Fuller (University of Iowa, USA)
• Jose Luis Gomez Pardo (University de Santiago de Compostela, Spain)
• Charudatta Hajarnavis (University of Warwick, UK)
• Birge Huisgen-Zimmermann (University of California Santa Barbara, USA)
• T.Y. Lam (University of California Berkeley, USA)
• Patrick F. Smith (University of Glasgow, UK)
• Agata Smoktunowicz (The University of Edinburgh, UK)
• Jan Trlifaj (Charles University, Czech Republic)
• Robert Wisbauer (University of Dusseldorf, Germany)

The conference will also have contributed talks. The main topics covered at the conference include Structure Theory of Rings and Modules, Representation Theory, and Group Rings, among others.
For registration, submission of an abstract, and other information, please go to the conference website.
Deadline for submitting abstract: April 30, 2007
Organizing Committee:
Nguyen Viet Dung, Ohio University, Zanesville Campus
Franco Guerriero, Ohio University, Lancaster Campus
Lakhdar Hammoudi, Ohio University, Chillicothe Campus
Pramod Kanwar (Coordinator), Ohio University, Zanesville Campus
For more information: Contact Pramod Kanwar.

The 2007 Abelian Groups and Modules over Commutative Rings Conference will be held June 11-15, 2007 at the University of Connecticut, USA.
The Conference will include sessions for invited and plenary speakers. In addition, the organizers plan a mathematical education component, which includes a public lecture, and a session of invited talks on the subject of undergraduate projects in algebra. More information will be forthcoming in the next few months, and will be posted on the online program page
For more information, consult the conference website.

On the occasion of David Mumford’s 70th birthday there will be a one-day conference, in algebraic geometry, held on June 2, 2007. The venue will be at Brown University, in Providence, Rhode Island.
The Clay Mathematics Institute is kindly sponsoring the event.
The conference will feature five one-hour talks, on recent developments in algebraic geometry following from Mumford’s work. The speakers will be

• Valery Alexeev
• Igor Krichever
• Michael Rapoport
• Vyacheslav Shokurov
• Ulrike Tillmann

We have applied for funding to support graduate students, postdocs and early-career researchers. If the funding materializes, we will be happy to invite as many as we can.
The algebraic geometry conference is part of a two-day event. On June 1 there will be a sister meeting on computer vision. The computer vision component will be held in Newport, Rhode Island.
Further details, about both conferences, can be found from the joint web page.
The organising committee,
Ching-Li Chai, Amnon Neeman, Takahiro Shiota

As part of the theme semester on Recent Advances in Combinatorics at the Centre de Recherches Mathématiques F. Bergeron (UQAM), A. Geramita (Queen’s), A. Knutson (Berkeley), R. Vakil (Stanford) and S. Faridi (Dalhousie) are organizing two events.

• A school on Algebraic Geometry and Algebraic Combinatorics May 21-25, 2007.
• A workshop on Interactions between Algebraic Combinatorics and Algebraic Geometry May 28 – June 1, 2007.

NSF funding is available to support travel to the workshop and/or school for graduate students, postdocs, and junior researchers up to 5 years past the PhD. Genaral funding is also available. The deadline for funding applications is November 15. To apply, please follow the instructions that appear on the web page for the workshop under the heading “Financial Aid”.

Jim Coykendall and Scott Chapman are organizing a workshop titled “The Art of Factorization in Multiplicative Structures.” The workshop is funded through a PREP grant from the Mathematical Association of America. It will take place on the campus of Trinity University from May 21 – May 25, 2007. This five-day workshop will present the fundamental mathematical concepts of the theory of non-unique factorization at a basic level suitable for a beginning graduate student or University level faculty unfamiliar with this area. The main speakers will each deliver a series of 4 lectures:

• David Anderson, The University of Tennessee at Knoxville
• Alfred Geroldinger, Karl-Franzens-Universität in Graz, Austria
• Ulrich Krause, Universität Bremen, Bremen, Germany.

The lectures will focus on the algebraic, number theoretic, combinatorial and geometric aspects of factorization theory. Aside from the main lectures mentioned above, the workshop will include keynote addresses by the organizers, seminars by graduate students who have worked in this field and have experienced research directed work in their studies, and a series of problem/discussion sessions which will address how this material can best be applied in both the classroom and the undergraduate research project setting. More information can be found at the conference website.
Information concerning travel, accommodations, meals and background reading will be updated periodically. Registration for the workshop is handled by the MAA and the registration fee covers participants’ on-campus accommodations and meals. Either Scott Chapman or Jim Coykendall are happy to answer any of your questions.

A workshop on Advances in Algebra and Geometry will be held at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute April 28 to May 05, 2007. The workshop is being organized by Joe Harris, Craig Huneke, Hugo Rossi, Frank-Olaf Schreyer, and Bernd Sturmfels.
From the workshop web page:
The goal of the workshop is to focus on some long term developments in Algebra, Geometry and Computation. It will bring together individuals working in these different areas who by-and-large have not had the opportunity to interact with one another, much less collaborate with each other. Despite this lack of opportunity, there is a great deal of common mathematics which can be shared by this group. Specifically, the main topics of the workshop will be:

1. Enumerative and birational geometry of the moduli space of curves
2. Homological algebra
3. Symbolic computation
4. Commutative algebra
5. Postulation, equations, and syzygies
6. Special varieties

It is not a coincidence that these topics represent areas in which MSRI’s Director, David Eisenbud, has made seminal research contributions. The timing of the workshop also coincides with David’s 60th birthday and occurs as he is preparing to step down as Director at the end of this academic year. Thus this workshop will also afford the opportunity to honor David’s many and varied lifetime contributions to the vitality of the mathematical sciences.
Invited speakers include:
Luchezar Avramov*, David Buchsbaum*, Persi Diaconis, Mark Green*, Juergen Herzog, Melvin Hochster, Sheldon Katz, Janos Kollar, Gennady Lyubeznik*, Mircea Mustata*, Irena Peeva*, Sorin Popescu*, Claudio Procesi, Michael Singer*, Greg Smith*, Karen Smith, Mike Stillman*, Bernd Ulrich*.
(* indicates confirmed [as of 23 Jan 07])
For more information, see the workshop web page.