This will be a weekly Commutative Algebra webinar, hosted by MSRI, that will take place at 1:30pm 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 … Continue reading "Fellowship of the Ring: Singh, “Hankel determinantal rings”"

The next iteration of CA+ (short for Commutative Algebra Plus) will take place in Ames, IA on the campus of Iowa State University from Saturday, April 18, 2020 to Sunday, April 19, 2020. Conference participants are encouraged to visit the webpage: http://www-users.math.umn.edu/~cberkesc/CA/CA2020.html The registration page will be available soon. There is some travel funding, especially … Continue reading "CA+, Ames Iowa"

This will be a weekly Commutative Algebra webinar, hosted by MSRI, that will take place at 1:30pm 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 … Continue reading "Fellowship of the Ring: Stillman, “Quadratic Gorenstein rings and the Koszul property”"

The ninth annual URiCA(pronounced like eureka)-KUMUNUjr conference will be on April 25-26, 2020, at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Inspired by the success of the KUMUNU commutative algebra conferences (KU, MU, NU) KUMUNUjr brought together graduate students and postdocs studying commutative algebra in the midwest, a term that now stretches from Utah to Michigan and North … Continue reading "URiCA-KUMUNUjr 2020"

Update 17 March 2020: This event has been cancelled. There will be a two-day commutative algebra conference which will take place at West Virginia University in Morgantown, WV during April 25-26, 2020 (Saturday-Sunday).  The conference will have 8 research talks and a  poster session for graduate students. The poster session will allow numerous young researchers … Continue reading "Morgantown Algebra Days 2020, West Virginia University "

Sean Sather-Wagstaff and Juliette Bruce are holding a virtual online conference bringing together people in commutative algebra and related fields. The conference is being held via the video conferencing service Zoom on April 25 - 26, 2020. Speakers: Christine Berkesch, Adam Boocher, Jenny Kenkel, Monica Lewis, Jenna Rajchgot, Rebecca RG, Kevin Tucker, and Keller VandeBogert. … Continue reading "CAZoom"

Update 17 March 2020: This event has been cancelled. The AMS Spring Western Sectional Meeting will be held at California State University, Fresno, Fresno, CA, May 2-3, 2020 (Saturday - Sunday). The following special sessions might be of interest. Special Session on DG Methods in Commutative Algebra and Representation Theory Confirmed Speakers: James Cameron (University … Continue reading "AMS Sectional, California State University, Fresno"

This Zoom special session, in lieu of a physical meeting in Fresno, will serve as an opportunity for researchers in commutative algebra and representation theory to share their DG ideas with one another. You can find more information on the conference website: https://www.math.utah.edu/~briggs/dgsession The meeting is open to the public, but will only be accessible … Continue reading "Zoom Special Session on DG Methods in Commutative Algebra and Representation Theory (AMS Fresno replacement)"

Dear Colleagues, We are organizing a Macaulay2 workshop at Cleveland State University in Cleveland, OH from Monday, May 11, 2020 through Friday, May 15, 2020 (with Sunday, May 10 and Saturday, May 16 serving as travel dates). The purpose of the workshop is to bring Macaulay2 developers together with those who would like to share … Continue reading "Macaulay2 workshop, Cleveland State University"

There will be a conference "Unexpected and Asymptotic Properties of Algebraic Varieties." (aka BrianFest) which will focus on interpolation problems in algebraic geometry and asymptotic invariants of homogeneous ideals. The conference will also celebrate Brian Harbourne's work in this area as he celebrates his 65th birthday. The conference will take place May 15-17, 2020 at … Continue reading "Unexpected and Asymptotic Properties of Algebraic Varieties (BrianFest)"

There will be a workshop on “Purity, Approximation Theory and Spectra” at Grand Hotel San Michele in Cetraro, Italy, 18-22 May 2020. Purity and approximation theory influence a wide range of areas in mathematics including model theory of modules, silting and tilting theory, cotorsion pairs and abelian model structures and many more. Moreover, related classification … Continue reading "Purity, Approximation Theory and Spectra, Cetraro, Italy"

International school on Tropical Geometry http://tropicalschool2020.uva.es/ This school is organized by the IMUVA-Mathematics Research Institute of the University of Valladolid (Spain) in May, 25th-29th, 2020. The main objective of is to offer to future and young researchers of distinct branches of mathematics a series of courses at doctorate level on a new field connected to … Continue reading "Tropical Geometry, Valladolid (Spain)"

The conference "Homological trends in Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry" will take place in Bucharest, June 1st-5th, 2020. Organizers: Cristodor Ionescu (IMAR, Romania) Marius Vladoiu(Bucharest Univ. & Purdue Univ.). updated 30 December 2019 Web page: http://www.imar.ro/~imar/2019/site_conferinta_2020/index.html List of speakers: Josep Alvarez-Montaner Marian Aprodu Nero Budur Christine Berkesch Giulio Caviglia Marc Chardin Aldo Conca Alexandru Dimca … Continue reading "Homological trends, Bucharest"

PASCA 2020 (Pan-American School in Commutative Algebra) will be a two-week summer school on commutative algebra at Universidad del Norte in Barranquilla, Colombia, June 1-12 2020. The lecturers of the school will be José Luis González (UC Riverside) Luis Nuñez-Betancourt (CIMAT) Claudia Polini (Notre Dame) Karen Smith (Michigan) For more information, including an application form, … Continue reading "PASCA 2020, Barranquilla Colombia"

update 5 April 20: This event has been cancelled. The National School on Algebra, the 28th edition, will take place in Bucharest, 8-12th of June, right after the conference, part of the same event and thus having the same title "Homological trends in Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry". The website for the school is math.univ-ovidius.ro/sna/edition.aspx?cat=GeneralInfo&itemID=15 … Continue reading "28th National School on Algebra, Bucharest"

On June 25 2020 there will be a one-day online conference, "Qolloquium: Quivers, Representations, Resolutions", which will bring together geometers and representation theorists working on various aspects of quiver varieties and symplectic resolutions. Through both established and emerging research, these topics enjoy multiple points of contact with investigations into birational geometry, universal enveloping algebras, hyperplane … Continue reading "Qolloquium: Quivers, Representations, Resolutions"

The first eCARs (Early Commutative Algebra Researchers) online conference will take place on June 27-28 on Zoom. The aim of this conference is to foster connections among the current upcoming crowd of researchers in commutative algebra and to provide an opportunity for graduate students and postdocs on the academic job market to share their research … Continue reading "eCARs"

The 2020 WARTHOG workshop will be on the topic of "Infinite-dimensional methods in commutative algebra". It will be held July 27-31, 2020 at the University of Oregon, and will be led by Andrew Snowden. More information can be found here: https://pages.uoregon.edu/belias/WARTHOG/infcomm/index.html WARTHOG is a summer graduate school which is focused on a single topic. The … Continue reading "WARTHOG 2020"

There will be a workshop Aug 3-7, 2020 at ICERM on: Free Resolutions and Representation Theory. Abstract The structure of free resolutions plays an important role in analyzing singularities of varieties of low codimension. Codimension 2 Cohen-Macaulay varieties (resp. codimension 3 Gorenstein varieties) come from rank conditions on an n x (n+1) matrix (resp. a … Continue reading "Free Resolutions and Representation Theory, ICERM"

We are pleased to announce a masterclass "Local cohomology and related topics" in Stockholm, August 10-14 2020. Our goal is to give an introduction for graduate students to the current research. Two sets of lectures will be given by Josep Alvarez-Montaner and Wenliang Zhang. Registration is open until April 30. For more details, visit the … Continue reading "Local cohomology and related topics (Summer School), Stockholm"