Category: News Postings

Postdoc at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa is hiring a 2-year postdoc to start in Fall 2026 as part of an NSF FRG grant on connections between commutative algebra, algebraic geometry, and symplectic geometry. Per NSF requirements, candidates must be US citizens or permanent residents. For more information, and to apply, see the mathjobs post.

Tenure-track job at Syracuse

Syracuse University is hiring a mathematician for a slightly unusual position, that might be of interest to many commutative algebraists:

https://www.mathjobs.org/jobs/list/27104

Help spreading the word! The position is labeled Assistant Professor, Quantum Information Science, but they really want a mathematician. It is in the Mathematics Department, and they expect to hire a mathematician, but the applicant should be able to participate in Syracuse University’s new Institute for Quantum and Information Sciences. For example, anyone that uses Koszul duality, D-modules, QFT, mirror symmetry or any other areas that have applications to physics would be excellent fits (as would math people in various other areas, such as parts of analysis, geometry, topology, probability, etc)! It’s a fancy job, funded by the Simons Institute for the first 3 years.

The due date November 15 but earlier is always better so they have time to read it.

Jesse Elliott (1973 – 2025)

We are deeply saddened to share with the community the news of the passing of Jesse Elliott, died on June 29, 2025, at the age of 52. Elliott was a student of Hendrik Lenstra, and was a Professor of Mathematics at California State University Channel Islands. Elliott authored the book Rings, Modules, and Closure Operations. Elliott’s forthcoming book Analytic Number Theory and Algebraic Asymptotic Analysis will be published posthumously in 2025.

Jesse’s obituary can be found here.

YouTube Channel: Commutative Algebra at Nebraska

The new YouTube channel Commutative Algebra at Nebraska contains videos on topics within commutative algebra. This includes videos produced by the Nebraska graduate students, and video presentations from the International REU in Commutative Algebra held at CIMAT this summer and the FGFY REU held at UNL this summer.

This work is supported by NSF RTG Grant DMS-2342256Commutative Algebra at Nebraska, which supports activities for undergraduates, graduate students, and postdocs in commutative algebra. More information can be found here.

WICA proceedings: call for submissions

Sara Faridi, Elisa Gorla, Elisa Postinghel and Alexandra Seceleanu are editing a proceedings volume to appear in the Association for Women in Mathematics series published by Springer Nature. This proceedings volume will showcase the progress of the groups formed during the conferences WICA II (Trento, 2023) and WICA III (Oaxaca, 2024), but will also include papers developed outside of this conference series.

This is a last call for submissions to this volume. If you would like to submit a paper, please let the editors know of your intention as soon as possible. Alternatively, please follow the  link “Make a new submission” at this webpage. Please do not hesitate to contact the editors if you have any questions.

WICA IV seeking proposals

The workshop WICA IV – ICMS will be held July 20-24, 2026 at the International Centre for Mathematical Sciences (ICMS) in Edinburgh, Scotland. All program participants should hold a PhD or equivalent degree by the time the workshop takes place.
The organizers are currently seeking proposals for research problems and also for topics for dialogue groups.  Proposals should be submitted via this link.  The deadline for proposals is July 1, 2025.  The form will ask for a PDF upload describing your proposed topic, following the description given below. A (likely proper) subset of the proposals will become part of the information available to those who apply to participate in the workshop.  (Applications to participate in the workshop will open in July 2025.)  Selection of topics will depend on interest from potential participants.
Workshop participants will participate in one of three types of working groups during the week.
  1. Traditional groups: There will be two research groups in the by-now-traditional WICA format, each with group leaders who have been recruited in advance of this announcement by workshop organizers.
  2. Proposed research groups: There will be three research groups whose group leaders are selected from among those who propose a research problem via the link above.  Proposals may be made by a single mathematician or by a team of two.  Proposers need not be senior mathematicians. They are expected to take the lead in getting the group started on the proposed problem during the workshop. However, because proposers will not necessarily be more senior than other group members, there is less of an expectation that they will serve as mentors within the group if the group chooses to continue the project beyond the week of the workshop.  Because (parts of) these problem proposals will be posted publicly, we understand that people may wish to keep the statements of their problems somewhat vague. The most important information is the general topic of the problem and the background that would be required for someone to work on it.
  3. Research dialogue groups: There will be two groups, each with four to six participants, who will work together to learn background material on topics on which they are not yet experts. The goals in these groups will be to build working relationships and lay the foundation for future research collaborations. There is no expectation that these groups will continue beyond the week of the workshop itself.
In order to propose a research problem, please prepare a brief summary (~1/4 page to a page) of the problem itself and, roughly, of the background one would need to have in order to engage meaningfully with the problem.  Please submit at most one research problem proposal.
In order to propose a dialogue topic, please choose a survey article, book chapter(s), research paper, or similar that you would like to study with others during the workshop week.  If there is a topic that you would like to learn and a small family of references you would be happy to learn from, including all of the options that would be appealing to you is perfectly fine.  If you want to propose more than one topic, please submit separate proposals.  Please submit at most three dialogue topic proposals.
Funding is available through ICMS and from a gift from Jane Street Capital to cover participants’ local expenses.  We are in the process of seeking sources of funding to defray the costs of participant travel; there is no guarantee that such funding will be obtainable.  Additionally, there may be a 150 GBP registration fee.
If you have questions about the workshop or about proposal topics, please email the workshop organizers, Susan Cooper, Elena Guardo, Sema Güntürkün, and Patricia Klein.