The University of Leeds will host a conference, “Ring Theory: recent progress and applications”, in honor of Professors J. C. McConnell and J. C. Robson, Friday and Saturday May 5-6, 2006. A preliminary speaker list includes
- I. G. Gordon (Glasgow) Representations of rational Cherednik algebras
- L. Levy (Wisconsin) Modules over HNP rings
- R. Rouquier (Leeds) Calabi-Yau algebras
- L. W. Small (San Diego) Noetherian Rings: Before and After McConnell and Robson
- S. P. Smith (Seattle) Stacks and noncommutative algebraic geometry
- A. Smoktunowicz (Edinburgh) Some results on rings with Gelfand-Kirillov dimension less than three
- J. T. Stafford (Michigan) Noncommutative surfaces
For more information, see the conference webpage.