Category: Conference Listings

UIC-Purdue Workshop on Algebraic Geometry and Commutative Algebra This meeting will take place at Purdue University on December 2nd and 3rd.
Confirmed speakers are:

• – Sankar Dutta, U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• – Anatoly Libgober, U. of Illinois at Chicago
• – Gennady Lyubeznik, U. of Minnesota
• – Andrei Mustata, U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• – Mihnea Popa, U. of Chicago
• – Jaroslaw Wlodarczyk, Purdue U.

For more information please contact Lawrence Ein or Bernd Ulrich, or see the conference web page.

The University of Essen will host a Workshop on Commutative Algebra on Monday 20 November 2006. Speakers will include Kei-ichi Watanabe, Shiro Goto, Siamak Yassemi, Jugal Verma, and Tony Puthenpurakal. For more information, see the workshop web page.

The first annual Kent Regional Algebra Weekend will be held November 18-19, 2006 on the Kent campus of Kent State University. The meeting will consist of approximately eight 50-minute colloquium-style lectures given by researchers from Ohio and neighboring states. The speakers will represent many sub-disciplines of algebra and we expect that the talks will appeal to a broad spectrum of algebraists. The meeting is being organized by Misha Chebotar, Steve Gagola, Mark Lewis, Sean Sather-Wagstaff, and Don White. Further information about the meeting can be found at the conference website.

R.-O. Buchweitz (Toronto), D. Happel (Chemnitz), H. Krause (Paderborn), D. Kussin (Paderborn), I. Reiten (Trondheim) are organizing a conference Representations of Algebras and their Geometry in honor of Helmut Lenzing, November 10-11, 2006 at Universität Paderborn.
Speakers:

• R.-O. Buchweitz (Toronto)
• W.W. Crawley-Boevey (Leeds)
• J.A. de la Pena (Mexico)
• L. Hille (Hamburg)
• M. Prest (Manchester)
• I. Reiten (Trondheim)
• O. Schiffmann (Paris)
• A. Skowronski (Torun)
• M. van den Bergh (Hasselt)

In addition, a special colloquium will be given on November 10 by C. M. Ringel (Bielefeld).
For more information, consult the conference website.

The seventh annual KUMUNU meeting at the University of Kansas will be held November 4–5, 2006. The following people have tentatively agreed to speak:

• Lars Winther Christensen, University of Nebraska
• Zongzhu Lin, Kansas State University
• Mel Hochster, University of Michigan
• Jeffrey Mermin, University of Kansas
• Mara Neusel, Texas Tech University
• Jing Zhang, University of Missouri
• Mircea Mustata, University of Michigan

For more information, including titles of the talks, see the KUMUNU home page.

There will be a 5-day workshop on “Syzygies and Hilbert Functions” at the Banff International Research Station, October 14-19, 2006.
The workshop will be organized by Irena Peeva and Michael Stillman (Cornell).
You can read more about the focus of the workshop at the BIRS web page for the conference.

The Institute of Mathematics, Hanoi, Vietnam, and the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy, are organizing an International School and Workshop on Polynomial Automorphisms and Related Topics from October 9 to October 20, 2006, in Hanoi, Vietnam. The aim of the conference is to introduce mathematicians from Asian developing countries to recent developments in the field of Polynomial Automorphisms and its related topics in Commutative Algebra and Affine Geometry and to promote the collaboration between mathematicians from different developing and developed countries in this field.
The main topics include polynomial automorphisms, the Jacobian Conjecture and related topics, topology of polynomials and global diffeomorphisms.
The scientific program will consist of an Advanced School October 9 – 13, with 5 instructional courses for graduate students and young mathematicians from Asian developing countries, and an International Conference October 14 – 20, on recent developments in the field.
For more information, including an application form, please see the conference web page at ICTP.

At the AMS Fall Western Sectional Meeting in Salt Lake City, UT, October 7-8, 2006, Paul Roberts, Anurag Singh, and Oana Veliche will organize a Special Session on Commutative Algebra.

The Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics of Bucharest University, the Institute of Mathematics “Simion Stoilow” of the Romanian Academy, the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, “Ovidius” University of Constanta, and the Romanian Mathematical Society are organizing the 15th edition of the School on Algebra, September 25–30, 2006, in Constanta. The topic of the School is “Toric Algebra”. The lectures are based on the book Combinatorial Commutative Algebra, by E. Miller and B. Sturmfels, and will be completed by problem sessions, computer demos, and discussions.
For more information, see the School website.

The first joint meeting between the Canadian Mathematical Society (CMS) and the Sociedad Matemática Mexicana (SMM) will be held in Guanajuato, Mexico. The meeting will take place during September 21 – 23, 2006. Of particular interest to the commutative algebra community will be a Session on Algebra, organized by Ragnar-Olaf Buchweitz (Toronto), José Antonio de la Peña (UNAM) and Arturo Pianzola (Alberta). Confirmed speakers for the Session include:

• Michael Barot (UNAM),
• Raymundo Bautista (UNAM),
• Yuly Billig (Carleton),
• Thomas Bruestle (Sherbrooke),
• James Carrell (UBC),
• Vladimir Chernousov (Alberta),
• Xavier Gomez Mont (CIMAT),
• Ivan Gutman (Kragujevac, Serbia & Montenegro),
• Srikanth Iyengar (Nebraska – Lincoln, USA),
• Graham Leuschke (Syracuse, USA),
• Shiping Liu (Sherbrooke),
• Roberto Martinez (UNAM),
• Juan Rada (Universidad de Los Andes, Venezuela),
• Dieter Vossieck (UNAM).