Category: News Postings

Luchezar Avramov, David Eisenbud, and Irena Peeva are organizing the 7-day MSRI Workshop “Representation Theory, Homological Algebra, and Free Resolutions”, Feb 11, 2013 to Feb 17, 2013. To apply for funding, you must register by Mon, Oct 15 2012. Graduate students and postdocs should arrange that their Ph.D. advisor e-mails a brief recommendation letter to the organizers.

Rodney Sharp writes, “I took the attached photo of David and Joan Rees on David’s 94th birthday (last Tuesday, May 29) at the care home where he now lives. It might remind some users of the conference we had about 14 years ago in Exeter to celebrate David’s 80th year, and the one we had 24 years ago to mark his 70th birthday.”
Many thanks, Rodney. It’s good to see them both.  For those who may not know much about David Rees FRS, here is some background: wikipedia, mathscinet, math. genealogy.

David Eisenbud has been named as the next director of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley, California. His four-year term starts August 1, 2013. (He was previously Director of MSRI 1997-2007.) Congratulations, David! It’s great news for the visibility of commutative algebra and algebraic geometry, as well as for mathematics in general.

The Simons Foundation has announced the first round of Simons Fellows in Mathematics (previously on commalg.org), and it includes a number of our colleagues in commutative algebra and closely related fields. Congratulations to Robert Guralnick, Srikanth Iyengar, Irena Peeva, and Bernd Ulrich on this honor! (Hope we didn’t accidentally miss anyone!)

From Moty Katzman:

The School of Mathematics at the University of Sheffield is hiring a post-doctoral research assistant to work on an EPSRC funded project entitled “Common threads in the theories of local cohomology, D-modules and tight closure, and their interactions.”
The position will last for three years from September 1st, 2012 to June 30th, 2015. The successful applicant will have no teaching duties and will devote their time to study problems originating from prime characteristic methods, local cohomology modules and D-modules. The salary is approximately GBP 28,251 (USD 45,200) with an additional GBP 5,000 for travel expenses for the three year period. Continue reading “Postdocs at Sheffield”

From Sara Faridi:

These postdoctoral positions were not advertised on the AMS website, so I am posting a link here for anyone who is interested. The application procedures for the two types of postdocs available are somewhat different than normal, so please read the instructions carefully.
http://www.mathstat.dal.ca/positions.html

From Aldo Conca:

At the following web page
http://cofund.altamatematica.it/
you find the second call for the INdAM post-doc fellowships in mathematics. These are 2-years post-doc grants payed according to the EU standards.
The dead-line is december 20. Some grants are reserved to non-italians. There will be a third call in the spring 2012.

The local organizer of the recent AMS Sectional Meeting in Lincoln, NE has generously volunteered to host slides from the three commutative-algebra-related Special Sessions at the meeting. Brian Harbourne has posted slides from many of the talks in the “Commutative Algebra“, “Local Commutative Algebra“, and “Algebraic Geometry and Graded Commutative Algebra” sessions. He’s also posted group photos (1, 2).
In addition, we’re hosting some of the material from the special Appreciation Event for Roger and Sylvia Wiegand, titled “The Wiegands’ Algebra Family”. It’s linked on the commalg.org page for the meeting.

The School of Mathematics at the University of Sheffield will be hiring 2 lecturers starting from September 1st, 2012. These are permanent positions equivalent to tenured Assistant Professorships in the US. More details can be found on the University website. The ad indicates that the search will focus on candidates in Algebra, Field Theory, Geometry, Mathematical Biology, Probability, Solar Physics or another area linking with existing strengths of the School. The closing date for applications is 24th November 2011. For more information, see the ad or contact Moty Katzman (M.Katzman AT sheffield DOT ac DOT uk).
(Thanks to Moty and Srikanth Iyengar for sending this in.)

From Dan Grayson:

The Macaulay2 free software project seeks one or more part-time programmers. Macaulay2 is a free software computer algebra system designed for research in mathematics and related fields. It contains its own high-level interpreted user language, and the program is written in a combination of C and C++, another language that we created to help write the interpreter that gets translated into C, and the user language. Macaulay2 depends on a number of other free software libraries.
This is a temporary position funded by an NSF contract that terminates in August, 2015, but other funding may be available after that. Applications received by Friday, November 11, 2011 will receive full consideration. […] Pay will be competitive, and will depend on experience. There are several projects available, and there will be others in the future. An applicant may be suitable for all, or for only one.

For more information, including the specific positions available and how to apply, see http://www.macaulay2.com/Jobs/.

From Igor Burban:

Yuriy Drozd, Gert-Martin Greuel and myself organize a summer school on Cohen-Macaulay modules over surface singularities and McKay Correspondence in Oberwolfach:
http://www.mfo.de/occasion/1147b
The application deadline is September 15. We have already a number of applications, but there are still some free places available and so far there were no applications from North America. Since the commutative algebra community in US is rather big, so I would like to encourage your students interested in this activity to apply. As usual, MFO covers all living expanses but additionally it offers some moderate travel support (about 200 Euro).

The Seminar runs November 20–26, 2011. For more information, see the programme on the MFO website.