Category: News Postings

Some recent job postings that may be of interest:

• The University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Syracuse University, and Oklahoma State University all have postdoc positions starting in Fall 2021. More information in the links above.
• The University of Sheffield is advertising a permanent position in Algebra, Geometry and Topology, including interactions with Mathematical Physics. The appointment will be made at either Senior Lecturer or Chair level (roughly equivalent to Associate Professor or Professor) according to the experience of the successful candidate. More information here.

The following is a note we recently received from David Eisenbud:

I’m writing to announce news that deeply saddens me: David Buchsbaum died at his home on January 8, 2021, of heart failure. David was born on November 6, 1929, and earned his PhD at Columbia University in 1954 under Samuel Eilenberg for the definition and exploration of Abelian categories. He and Maurice Auslander had a famous collaboration laying some of the foundations of homological commutative algebra; among their notable results were the formula relating depth and projective dimension, and the factoriality of regular local rings. His later interests were at the intersection of representation theory and commutative algebra. David spent most of his career at Brandeis University, and was very much engaged in building its mathematics department. He was elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1995.

David had and communicated a deep love of mathematics as an integral part of life and of culture. He loved to travel, most of all to Rome. He was a mentor to students and postdocs from all over the world, but especially in Italy. Many Italians arranged to spend time at Brandeis to be near him. In honor of his contribution to Italian mathematics, David was internationally celebrated in three locations throughout Italy during a six-week conference in 1998.

David and I first met in 1968 at the first conference I attended as a graduate student: my advisor, Saunders MacLane, told me I should pay special attention to David’s lectures. David became my postdoctoral mentor, longtime collaborator in a particularly productive and happy period, and a very dear friend.

David shared deep intellectual interests with Betty, his wife for more than 70 years, a poet and professor of English, who survives him. David and Betty were very close to their three daughters, Helen, Susan and Marion, and their warm family life has always been a model for me. Susan’s son Gabriel Frieden has followed his grandfather into mathematics, and is currently a postdoctoral student in Montreal.

There will be a weekly Commutative Algebra webinar, hosted by MSRI, that will take place at 1:30pm 12:00 noon Pacific time every Thursday. The organizing committee is listed below. Each talk will have two parts: the first part should be accessible to graduate students after a first course in commutative algebra, and should survey the basic facts and the goals of some area of commutative algebra; the second part will typically cover recent research.

Register for the Fellowship of the Ring here.

You can see old talks on the MSRI YouTube channel.

Organizing Committee:

• David Eisenbud <de@msri.org>, chair
• Mel Hochster <hochster@umich.edu>
• Craig Huneke <huneke@virginia.edu>
• Srikanth Iyengar <iyengar@math.utah.edu>
• Claudia Miller <clamille@syr.edu>
• Irena Peeva <ivp1@cornell.edu>
• Steven Sam <ssam@ucsd.edu>
• Karl E Schwede <schwede@math.utah.edu>
• Bernd Ulrich <bulrich@purdue.edu>

The backend of the site is currently down for updates.
This is a read-only version, and we won’t be able to add new posts for a while. Thanks for understanding.
You can always contact us at webmaster@commalg.org.

The AWM student chapter at the University of Utah is organizing a conference, May 20-22, 2020, aimed towards early graduate students and advanced undergraduate students interested in representation theory, number theory, and commutative algebra.
The goal of this conference is to:

• Foster a sense of community amongst underrepresented groups in mathematics,
• Introduce possible research areas,
• Expose the participants to role models and possible mentors.

Potential funding may be available for travel and accommodation for 40 participants, priority will be given to participants from underrepresented groups. To be considered for funding please register before January 31st, 2020. More information can be found at the conference website:
https://www.math.utah.edu/awmchapter/conference/index.html.

The organizers of the collaborative research workshop Women in Commutative Algebra (WICA) 2019 invite researchers who are interested in participating to fill out the WICA Interest Form linked from the workshop website by April 1. For more information see our commalg.org post.

Inviting submission for a special issue in “Current Trends on Monomial and Binomial Ideals”
Dear Colleagues,
Recently, new trends on monomial ideals and binomial ideals have emerged. Remarkable developments in, for example, finite free resolutions, syzygies, regularity and symbolic powers of monomial ideals, and binomial ideals arising from combinatorial objects including finite graphs, lattice polytopes, and finite partially ordered sets have been brought about by a large number of authors. We

• Takayuki Hibi
• Tai Ha

are editing for a Special Issue which aims to summarize recent achievements in these topics and to stimulate further research that invites breakthroughs in the theory of monomial and binomial ideals.
This Special Issue will be published in Mathematics (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/mathematics), an open access journal. We are inviting submissions for the issue. The deadline for submitting a paper is July 31, 2019.
For further information, please see the journal’s special issue announcement. 
Takayuki Hibi and Tai Ha

The workshop “FACARD, Frobenius Action in Commutative Algebra: Recent Developments” will be held at the Institute of Mathematics of the University of Barcelona on January 16 – 18, 2019.
The focus of the workshop is on recent developments in positive characteristic algebra and other related topics. It is addressed to Ph.D. students, postdocs and interested researchers in general. There will be two minicourses at graduate level and research talks given by international experts and young emerging scientists.
Minicourse speakers:

• Holger Brenner (Universität Osnabrück)
• Linquan Ma (Purdue University)

Speakers:

• Josep Àlvarez Montaner (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya)
• Angélica Benito (Universitad Autonoma de Madrid)
• Javier Carvajal Rojas (University of Utah)
• Alberto F. Boix (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
• Ricardo García López (Universitat de Barcelona)
• Eloísa Grifo (University of Michigan)
• Jack Jeffries (University of Michigan)
• Jonathan Montaño (New Mexico State University)
• Julio José Moyano Fernández (Universitat Jaume I de Castelló)
• Yusuke Nakajima (KAVLI IPMU)
• Luis Núñez Betancourt* (CIMAT)
• Ilya Smirnov (University of Michigan)
• Francesco Strazzanti (INdAM)
• Naoki Taniguchi (Waseda University)
• Matteo Varbaro (Università degli Studi di Genova)

* To be confirmed
For more information see the workshop website.