Author: Graham Leuschke

MEGA 2019 will take place at Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Madrid, Spain) in June 17-21, 2019.
Please visit the conference page at http://eventos.ucm.es/12097/detail/mega-2019.html
Funding is available for early career participants based at the US institutions.

In the Summer 2019, there will be a four-week long Thematic Program in Commutative Algebra and its Interaction with Algebraic Geometry, on the occasion of Bernd Ulrich’s 65th birthday. It will be held at the Center for Mathematics of the University of Notre Dame from Tuesday, May 28 until Friday, June 21, 2019. The organizers of the program are Craig Huneke, Sonja Mapes, Juan Migliore, Claudia Polini, and Claudiu Raicu. 
1. Undergraduate school

Tuesday, May 28–Saturday, June 1, 2019

3 courses with afternoon exercise sessions

Lecturers:
Adam Boocher (University of Utah)
Sonja Mapes (University of Notre Dame)
Claudiu Raicu (University of Notre Dame).

Teaching assistants:
Kuei-Nuan Lin (Penn State Greater Allegheny)
Youngsu Kim (University of Arkansas).

Topics
Homological algebra (Adam Boocher)
Monomial ideals (Sonja Mapes)
Determinantal ideals (Claudiu Raicu).

Panel:
A panel about applying to graduate school

Colloquium talk:
Juan Migliore

Several social events are planned.

 

2. MSRI graduate school and Macaulay2 workshop

Monday June 3– Friday June 14, 2019 

4 courses with exercise sessions plus a Macaulay2 workshop

Lecturers:
Mark Johnson (University of Arkansas)
Linquan Ma (University of Utah)
Claudia Polini (University of Notre Dame)
Javid Validashti (Cleveland State University).

Teaching Assistants:
Jeffrey Madsen (Purdue University)
Paolo Mantero (University of Arkansas)
Jonathan Montano (University of Kansas)
Lan Nguyen (Vietnam National University)
Wenbo Niu (University of Arkansas)
Thomas Polstra (University of Utah)
Alessio Sammartano (Purdue University)
Ilya Smirnov (University of Michigan)
Yu Xie (Widener University).

Macaulay2 Coordinators:
Dan Grayson (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Sonja Mapes (University of Notre Dame)
Claudiu Raicu (University of Notre Dame).
Mike Stillman (Cornell University)

Topics:
Linkage and residual intersections, taught by Mark Johnson with teaching assistants Paolo
Mantero and Wenbo Niu.
Characteristic p methods and applications, taught by Linquan Ma with teaching assistants
Thomas Polstra and Ilya Smirnov.
Blowup algebras, taught by Claudia Polini with teaching assistants Jeffrey Madsen, Lan
Nguyen, and Alessio Sammartano.
Multiplicity theory, taught by Javid Validashti with teaching assistants Jonathan Montano
and Yu Xie.

Panel:
A panel about applying for grants and jobs, and about possible career paths 
 
Colloquium talks: 
Robin Hartshorne 
Uwe Nagel

Several social events are planned.

3. International conference in honor of Bernd Ulrich

Sunday June 16–Friday June 21, 2019

Organizers: 
David Eisenbud, Craig Huneke, Sonja Mapes, Juan Migliore, Claudia Polini, and Claudiu Raicu

4 talks per day (2 in the morning, 2 in the afternoon)
30 minutes Q&A each day (only for peridoctoral students)
two poster sessions 

List of speakers:

Lucho Avramov (University of Nebraska)
Giulio Caviglia (Purdue University)
Marc Chardin (University Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France)
Aldo Conca (University of Genoa, Italy)
Dale Cutkosky (University of Missouri)
Hailong Dao (University of Kansas)
David Eisenbud (MSRI and University of California, Berkeley)
Hubert Flenner (University of Bochum, Germany)
Louiza Fouli (New Mexico State University)
Juergen Herzog (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
Mel Hochster (University of Michigan)
Craig Huneke (University of Virginia)
Srikanth Iyengar (University of Utah)
Steve Kleiman (MIT)
Andy Kustin (University of South Carolina)
Irena Peeva (Cornell University)
Marilina Rossi ((University of Genoa, Italy)
Aron Simis (Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil)
Anurag Singh (University of Utah)
Karen Smith (University of Michigan)
Shunsuke Takagi (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Ngo Viet Trung (Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Vietnam)
Kevin Tucker (University of Illinois, Chicago)
Kei-ichi Watanabe (Nihon University, Japan).

Poster Sessions Coordinator:
Vivek Mukundan

Poster sessions:
Each peridoctoral student is given 5 minutes to present his/her work in front of his/her poster, then the participants can go around and ask questions.

Several social events are planned.

There will be a Special Session on Commutative Algebra and its Environs at the Spring Central and Western Joint Sectional Meeting of the AMS at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, March 22-24, 2019 (Friday – Sunday).
The organizers are Ela Celikbas, Olgur Celikbas, and Ryo Takahashi.
update 10 Dec 2018: There is now a web page for the Special Session, which includes a list of speakers.

There will be a Spring School and Workshop on Polytopes March 11-15, 2019, at the Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. The Spring School will last for two days, and the Workshop for three days.
The Spring School will include three crash courses, by

• Tim Römer (Osnabrück)
• Pierre Calka (Rouen)
• Hailun Zheng (Michigan)

The Workshop’s topics include (but are not limited to)

• face enumeration,
• the study of special classes of polytopes, such as simplicial, balanced, centrally symmetric and flag polytopes,
• high-dimensional aspects and threshold phenomena,
• asymptotic and approximation properties.

Invited speakers include:

• Imre Bárány (Hungarian Academy of Sciences),
• Martin Henk (Technical University of Berlin),
• Eran Nevo (Hebrew University of Jerusalem),
• Isabella Novik (University of Washington),
• Matthias Reitzner (University of Osnabrück),
• Elisabeth Werner (Case Western Reserve University).

For more information, including registration, see the web page for the Spring School and Workshop.

The 2019 edition of the Southwest Local Algebra Meeting will be held at the University of Texas at El Paso, 23–24 February 2019.
There is a registration form at the meeting website. Early registrants have priority for support.
Confirmed Speakers

• Anton Dochtermann (Texas State University)
• Michael DiPasquale (Colorado State University)
• Ezra Miller (Duke University)
• Brandilyn Stigler (Southern Methodist University)
• Emily Witt (University of Kansas)
• Piotr Wojciechowski (University of Texas at El Paso)

Organizers

• Lars Winther Christensen (Texas Tech University)
• Art Duval (University of Texas at El Paso)
• Louiza Fouli (New Mexico State University)
• David Jorgensen (University of Texas at Arlington)

The Joint Mathematics Meetings for 2019 will be held in Baltimore MD, January 16-19. There will be at least a couple of Special Sessions of interest to commutative algebraists:

• AMS Special Session on Commutative Ring Theory: Research for Undergraduate and Early Graduate Students, organized by Nicholas Baeth and Branden Stone
• AMS Special Session on Recent Advances in Homological and Commutative Algebra, organized by Neil Epstein, Claudiu Raicu, and Alexandra Seceleanu.

For more information see jointmathematicsmeetings.org.