The University of Minnesota will host a conference focusing on recent advances in commutative algebra centered around topics influenced by the contributions of Gennady Lyubeznik: local cohomology, rings of prime characteristic, D-modules, and the homological conjectures. The conference will be held August 7-11, 2017.
Confirmed speakers include:
- Josep Àlvarez-Montaner (Polytèchnic University of Catalonia, Spain)
- Lucho Avramov (University of Nebraska, USA)
- Margherita Baile (University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy)
- Bhargav Bhatt (University of Michigan, USA
- Manuel Blickle (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Germany)
- Holger Brenner (Universität Osnabrück, Germany)
- John Greenlees (University of Sheffield, UK)
- Robin Hartshorne (University of California, Berkeley)
- Daniel Hernández (University of Kansas, USA)
- Jen-Chieh Hsiao (National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan)
- Mel Hochster (University of Michigan, USA)
- Craig Huneke (University of Virginia, USA)
- Mordechai Katzman (University of Sheffield, UK)
- Anton Leykin (Georgia Tech, USA)
- Kazuma Shimomoto (Nihon University, Japan)
- Anurag Singh (University of Utah, USA)
- Nick Switala (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)
- Emily Witt (University of Kansas, USA)
Participants should register by May 1 to be considered for funding.
For more information see the web page for the conference.