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The 2010 Joint Mathematics Meetings will be held in San Francisco, January 13-16, 2010. Susan Cooper, Graham Leuschke and Sean Sather-Wagstaff are organizing a Special Session on Commutative Algebra.
update: There is now a web page for the Special Session.
Check back for more information about this and other special sessions of interest to the commalg community.

The Institute of Mathematics, Universität Osnabrück will hold a conference on “Combinatorial structures in algebra and topology” October 8 – 10, 2009.
Invited speakers:

• C. Berger, Nice
• M. Blickle, Essen
• M. Boij, Stockholm
• M. Brun, Bergen
• A. Conca, Genoa
• J. Gubeladze, San Francisco
• T. Hüttemann, Belfast
• U. Nagel, Lexington
• F. Santos, Santander
• S. Schwede, Bonn
• N. Semenov, München
• V. Welker, Marburg
• T. Wendt, Freiburg

The invited lectures will be supplemented by short communications.
Organizing committee: H. Brenner, W. Bruns, T. Römer, O. Röndigs, R. Vogt
For further information see the conference web site. Conference e-mail address: confcsat@math.uos.de

KUMUNU 2009 will be held September 19-20, 2009 at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Check the KUMUNU website for more information.

There will be an “Advanced School on Homotopy Theory and Algebraic Geometry”, September 7th to September 10th, 2009, in Sevilla, Spain. The School is addressed to Ph.D. students and young post-doc researchers working on Algebraic Geometry and related areas. It will be organized by the Mathematical Research Institute of the University of Sevilla (IMUS) and will take place at the Faculty of Mathematics.
There will be three main minicourses:

1. Derived Algebraic Geometry.
2. Model Categories and Derivators.
3. Cartan-Eilenberg Categories and Descent Categories.

The speakers of the school include:

• Francisco Guillén Santos, University of Barcelona
• Bernhard Keller , University of Paris 7
• Georges Maltsiniotis, University of Paris 7
• Vicente Navarro Aznar, University of Barcelona
• Beatriz Rodríguez González, CSIC-Madrid
• Bertrand Toën, University of Toulouse
• Michel Vaquié, University of Toulouse
• Gabriele Vezzossi, University of Bologna

Organizers:

• Luis Narváez Macarro (Sevilla)
• Beatriz Rodríguez González (Madrid)
• Michel Vaquié (Toulouse)

For more information see the web page for the school.

There will be a conference entitled “Homological and geometric methods in algebra” in Norway, Trondheim, August 10th – August 14th, 2009.
Programme: only plenary lectures, see webpage.
Registration deadline: May 1st, 2009
Dates: Arrival August 9th, departure August 15th
Lectures: start Monday morning 10th, end Friday afternoon 14th.
Support: Young researchers (PhD/Post.doc.) can apply to get their accommodation covered. This might be in a shared room.
Deadline: March 15th, 2009
Sponsors: Norwegian Research Council-project: HoGeMetAlg and NTNU
For more information, see the conference web page.

There will be a Kyoto RIMS Workshop titled “Algebraic Triangulated Categories and Related Topics” in Kyoto, Japan, July 22nd – 24th 2009. Speakers include

• Tokuji Araya
• Hideto Asashiba (Shizuoka University)
• Akira Ishii (Hiroshima University)
• Srikanth Iyengar (University of Nebraska Lincoln)
• Bernhard Keller (University of Paris 7)
• Naoko Kunugi (Tokyo University of Science)
• Hyohe Miyachi (Nagoya University)
• Jun-ichi Miyachi (Tokyo Gakugei University)
• Marco Porta (Ben Gurion University)
• Atsushi Takahashi (Osaka University)
• Takeshi Torii (Okayama University)
• Yuji Yoshino (Okayama University)

The organizers are Osamu Iyama, Kiriko Kato, and Ryo Takahashi. For more information, see the conference webpage.

There will be a conference on “Automorphisms of Affine Spaces” at Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, from 6 to 10 July 2009.
The list of invited speakers includes

• Prof. Leonid Makar-Limanov, Wayne State University, Detroit, VS
• Prof. Hanspeter Kraft(*), Universität Basel, Basel, Zwitserland
• Prof. Lucy Moser-Jauslin, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, Frankrijk
• Prof. Masayoshi Miyanishi, Kwansei Gakuin University & Osaka University (ret.), Japan
• Prof. David Wright, Washington University, St.Louis, VS
• Prof. Gene Freudenburg, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, VS
• Prof. Gunter Malle(*), Universität Kaiserslautern, Duitsland.
• Prof. Arjeh Cohen, TUE
• Prof. Hendrik Lenstra(*), Universiteit Leiden

For more information, please see the conference web page, which currently has a preliminary schedule of the conference and an electronic registration form.
One of the days (Thursday) will have a wider focus, and will in particular involve algorithmic and computer algebra related topics.