There will be a conference on Commutative Algebra in Yokohama, Japan, March 17–21 2008. The conference is organized by Shiro Goto, Kei-ichi Watanabe, Koji Nishida, and Kazuhiko Kurano.
The main theme of the conference is the recent trends on commutative algebra, including the following topics.
- Blow-up algebras (Rees algebras of ideals and modules, graded rings associated to ideals, fiber cones of ideals)
- Hilbert functions and Sally modules
- Integral closures of ideals and rings, tight closures, multiplier ideals
- Homological conjectures
- Invariant theory
- Representation theory of local algebras
For more information, please see the conference web site.