Category: News Postings

The University of South Carolina in Columbia has announced an assistant-professor-level position in Algebra. For more details, see this PDF.
The due date for applications is January 10, 2012.

Srikanth Iyengar writes to let us know that the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has announced an assistant-professor-level position in Algebra. For more details, see this PDF.
The due date for applications is November 30, 2011.

The Simons Foundation has announced the Simons Fellows Program in Mathematics. The Fellows Program provides funds to faculty for up to a semester long research leave from classroom teaching and administrative obligations. Such leaves can increase creativity and provide intellectual stimulation. The goal of the Simons Fellows Program in 2011 is support extending a 1-semester sabbatical leave to a full academic year.
This program is particularly relevant for people hoping to take part in the MSRI year-long program in Commutative Algebra. The deadline is September 30, 2011, and application instructions are available on the Foundation website.

The first 10 volumes of the Séminaire Bourbaki are now freely available online at NUMDAM. Until recently, only later volumes were available for free, and the earlier ones were subscriber-only. These 10 volumes cover the years 1948-1968, so they contain a lot of great material from the history of commutative algebra and algebraic geometry.
My personal favorites: Hirzebruch’s exposition of Mumford’s theorem and Grothendieck on formal schemes. What are your hidden gems from these seminars? Leave a comment!

We have learned that Daniel Quillen passed away recently. The message below was posted to a topology listserve by his widow.

Dear friends and colleagues,
My husband of almost 50 years, Daniel Gray Quillen died quietly and peacefully on Saturday morning around 7 AM, April 30, 2011 at the age of 70. He is finally at rest and no longer suffering. In the last week of his life he was wonderfully cared for by the people of Haven Hospice. My son David, daughter-in-law Amy, daughter Cindy and I were constantly at his side. Dan died from the final stages of Alzheimer’s and the associated complications. We were able to follow his wishes of comfort and not making his suffering last any longer than nature had planned.
Alzheimer’s is truly a terrible disease. It was very hard to watch what it did to Dan over the past 5+ years. It stole the things he loved and took him from me too early. It first took his ability to do mathematics, then ability to play music, read, rational thinking and finally recognition of those he loved (except me, thank goodness).
I have no plans for an organized service. Dan’s body has been donated to medical science, following his clear and long standing wishes. If the mathematics community would like to organize a memorial service or a memorial colloquium we would be very pleased.
Please do not send flowers. I don’t know what I would do with them. If people feel that they would like to do something, I would very much support any assistance to your local hospice or to or Alzheimer’s research.
The work that hospice does in amazing and finding an answer to this awful disease is unbelievably important.
Thank you for all your support and friendship recently and for almost 50 years.
Jean Quillen
jeanquillen1@yahoo.co.uk

The International Journal of Algebra and Computation has expanded in scope, and now includes computational commutative algebra and algebraic geometry.

From the AMS:

The American Mathematical Society, with support from a private gift, is now accepting applications for travel grants in partial support of attendance by graduate students at one of the fall, 2011 AMS Sectional Meetings. Applications will be accepted through April 15, 2011. Applications for any one of these four sectional meetings will be accepted and considered as a group. Notifications of awards/declines: early June, 2011. This program accepts applications from current full time doctoral students.
Application deadline is April 15, 2011. See the web page for details and instructions.

Adam Van Tuyl has posted some photos from the recent Combinatorial Algebra meets Algebraic Combinatorics conference that was held in Thunder Bay in January.
People can access the photos and information about the session at: http://flash.lakeheadu.ca/~avantuyl/research/CombAlgMeetsAlgComb_Lakehead_2011.html.

Adam Van Tuyl has posted some photos from the recent special session at the Canadian Math Society Winter Meeting in Vancouver.
People can access the photos and information about the session at: http://flash.lakeheadu.ca/~avantuyl/research/CMS_2010_Vancouver.html. Go see!

Anton Leykin writes:

Dear Macaulay2 user,
You are invited to apply to participate in a Macaulay2 workshop that will take place at Institute for Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) from Monday, July 25, 2011 through Friday, July 29, 2011. The default arrival/departure is Sunday/Friday (night). Activities will start Monday morning (possibly Sunday night).
The application form is accessible from the IMA website. The application deadline is March 31, 2011.
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