Category: News Postings

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.
Continue reading “Macaulay2 at IMA, July 2011”

Amelia Taylor writes:

Dear Macaulay 2 user,
With funding from the Deutsche Forschungs Gemeinschaft (DFG — the German Research Council), we are organizing a Macaulay 2 workshop, from Monday, February 28, 2011 through Friday, March 4, 2011 with Sunday, February 27 and Saturday, March 5 serving as the travel days. The workshop will be at the Courant Center for Higher Order Structures in Göttingen (www.crcg.de). Activities will start first thing Monday morning (possibly Sunday night).
The purpose of the workshop is to bring Macaulay 2 developers together with those who would like to share or develop their skills at writing packages for Macaulay 2 and those interested in developing the corresponding mathematical algorithms. Continue reading “Macaulay2 Workshop in Germany, Feb 2011”

We’re saddened to note the passing of two giants of twentieth-century algebra, Goro Azumaya and Gerhard Hochschild.
Azumaya, who introduced the idea of an Azumaya algebra and was a professor emeritus at Indiana University, died July 8 at the age of 90. He received his PhD in 1949 from Nagoya University under the direction of Shokichi Iyanaga.
Hochschild, who introduced Hochschild cohomology, died July 8 at the age of 95. He received his PhD in 1941 from Princeton University under the direction of Claude Chevalley. Among the institutions where he worked are the Institute for Advanced Study, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the University of California, Berkeley, where he spent most of his career and from where he retired. In 1979 Hochschild was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. The next year he received the Leroy P. Steele Prize for “his significant work in homological algebra and its applications.”
On a lighter note, did you catch the theorem on an animated TV show last month? (Thanks to Ian Aberbach for this.)

Scott Chapman has been appointed Editor-Elect of the American Mathematical Monthly effective January 1, 2011. He will serve a five year term as Editor from January 1, 2012 to December 31, 2016. His appointment was approved by the MAA Board of Governors at MathFest in Pittsburgh in August. Congratulations to Scott!

Lorenzo Robbiano points out that Springer is discounting some prices on some books. For example, Kreuzer–Robbiano’s “Computational Commutative Algebra 1 and 2” are discounted on sale at €39.54 instead of the usual €64.15/€58.50. The discounts don’t appear to be available in the US, but Lorenzo tells us they are valid in some areas until July 31 2010.

The organizers of the Frobenius Splitting conference in Ann Arbor have posted some group photos to the conference website.
Go see!

We received two links to pictures from the recent Midwest Algebra, Geometry and their Interactions Conference (MAGIC’10):
Pictures by Juan Migliore
Pictures by Adam Coffman
Enjoy!