From September 29th to October 1st, 2004, the Institute of Mathematics at the University of Graz, in Austria, will host an International Symposium on Commutative Rings and Monoids, in honor of Professor Franz Halter-Koch.
Topics for the Symposium include
- multiplicative ideal theory
- non-unique factorizations
- direct sum decomposition of modules
- integer-valued polynomials
- Prüfer rings and their generalizations
Main lectures will be given by
- Daniel D. Anderson (University of Iowa)
- Marco Fontana (Universitá degli Studi Roma Tre)
- Roger Wiegand (University of Nebraska, Lincoln)
Moreover, there will be about thirty invited talks.
See the Symposium website for more information.
update: there are photos!