The 2009 Spring Central Section Meeting of the AMS will be held in Urbana, IL, March 27-29, 2009. There will be a Special Session on Local and Homological Methods in Commutative Algebra organized by Florian Enescu and Sandra Spiroff. For more information on the session, the the website maintained by the organizers or the AMS website for the session.
Month: March 2009
Photos from Bluegrass 2
Javid Validashti has posted some photos from the recent 2nd Bluegrass Algebra Conference in Lexington. Thanks for sending them along, Javid! Go see!
added 19 March: We’re sad to hear that Jim Huckaba, Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at the University of Missouri, died on Tuesday March 10. Jim was a widely respected and admired commutative algebraist. His son, Sam, works in commutative algebra as well.
The Huckaba family is establishing a memorial scholarship fund at MU. Contributions can be made by check (to University of Missouri, with a note saying it is for the “James A. Huckaba Memorial Scholarship Fund”) and sent to Carmen Chicone, Department of Mathematics, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211.
Eighth Colloquiumfest, CUNY
The Eighth Colloquiumfest will be held in New York City at the CUNY Graduate Center on March 6-7, 2009.
The event will present invited talks on valuation theory and algebraic geometry, orderings and model theory.
A tentative list of speakers includes Dale Cutkosky (Missouri), Samar El Hitti (New York City College of Technology), Krishna Hanumanthu (University of Kansas), Olga Kashcheyeva (University of Illinois at Chicago), Kiran Kedlaya (MIT), Philipp Rothmaler (CUNY – Bronx Community College), and Michael Temkin (University of Pennsylvania).
For more information, please see the Colloquiumfest web page.
2nd Bluegrass Algebra Conference
The 2nd Bluegrass Algebra Conference will be held in Lexington, Kentucky, during the period March 6-8, 2009. The conference continues a well established tradition of commutative algebra and algebraic geometry meetings in the Midwest. In order to enhance the visibility of mathematics among the diverse population of the University of Kentucky students, the conference will be preceded by a lecture aimed at the undergraduate level. The lecture will be delivered by Professor David Cox (Amherst College) and it is scheduled at 4:00 pm on Thursday, March 5, 2009. The official beginning of the conference will be marked by a colloquium talk delivered by Professor Steven Kleiman (MIT), which is scheduled at 4:00 pm on Friday, March 6, 2009. The (incomplete) list of distinguished researchers that have agreed to give a talk during this series of events includes:
- David Cox, Amherst College
- Lawrence Ein, University of Illinois at Chicago
- Steven Kleiman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Andrew Kustin, University of South Carolina
- Sonja Petrovic, University of Illinois at Chicago
- Paul Roberts, University of Utah
- Maria Evelina Rossi, Università di Genova (Italy)
- Hal Schenck, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Javid Validashti, University of Kansas
For more information, please see the conference webpage.
4th World Conference on 21st Century Mathematics, 2009
The 4th World Conference on 21st Century Mathematics, 2009 will be held March 4-8, 2009 at the Abdus Salam School of Mathematical Sciences in Lahore, Pakistan. More information on the conference can be found at the meeting website.
Workshop on representations and cohomology, Koeln
The algebra group of the University of Cologne will hold a Workshop on Representations and Cohomology at Koeln, March 1 to March 6, 2009. The workshop will include lecture series by Eric Friedlander, Srikanth Iyengar and Changchang Xi; lectures by Claire Amiot, Osamu Iyama, Bernhard Keller, Matthias Kuenzer, Steffen Oppermann, Dan Zacharia; and further talks to be announced later.
For more information, including accommodation, registration, and support, please see the web page for the Workshop.