Author: Graham Leuschke

The NATO Science Programme will organize a Workshop in Computational Commutative and Non-Commutative Algebraic Geometry, from 6 June to 11 June 2004, in Chisinau, Republic of Moldova.
The Workshop is organized by Gerhard Pfister and Svetlana Cojocaru, and a list of speakers is available. Lodging and meals will be at the Hotel “CODRU” in Chisinau.
More information, including travel hints, is on the Workshop web site.

There will be a conference on “Commutative Rings and Their Modules” at Incontro INdAM, Cortona, Italy, May 30 – June 5, 2004.
The aim is to bring together researchers in the areas of commutative ring theory and module theory. The main emphasis of the workshop is on almost perfect rings and their modules; tilting torsion theories, tilting and cotilting modules on commutative rings; integer valued polynomials; multiplicative ideal and module systems, star and semistar operations, Gabriel-Popescu localizing systems; Krull and Mori domains; chain conditions and prime spectrum; Pruefer domains and their generalizations; factorization and divisibility properties, decomposition of ideals, class groups. Young researchers approaching these areas are welcome.
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
Marco Fontana (Universita’ degli Studi Roma Tre)
Laszlo Fuchs (Tulane University, New Orleans)
Stefania Gabelli (Universita’ degli Studi Roma Tre)
Evan G. Houston (University of North-Carolina, Charlotte)
Luigi Salce (Universita’ degli Studi di Padova)
Paolo Zanardo (Universita’ degli Studi di Padova)
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Florida Girolami (Universita’ degli Studi Roma Tre)
Giampaolo Picozza (Universita’ degli Studi Roma Tre)
Francesca Tartarone (Universita’ degli Studi Roma Tre)
For more information, see the conference web site or email cortona4@mat.uniroma3.it

Moscow State University was founded on January 25, 1755. The Department of Algebra in Moscow University was founded in 1929 by Prof. Otto Yu. Schmidt. In connection with these events, the Department of Algebra of Moscow State University is organizing an International algebraic conference.
The conference will be held on the dates of May 26 – June 2, 2004, in the main building of Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia.
The topics of the conference are as follows:
1. Rings and modules, homological algebra, K-theory; 2. Quantum groups and Hopf algebras; 3. Group theory; 4. Computer algebra; 5. Invariants and algebraic transformation groups; 6. Algebraic geometry; 7. Commutative algebra and algebraic number theory; 8. Linear algebra; 9. General algebraic systems.
For more information, including registration details, deadlines, local particulars, and members of the organizing committees, see the conference website.

There will be a School on Commutative Algebra and Interactions with Algebraic Geometry and Combinatorics in Trieste, Italy, May 24 – June 11, 2004. The School is organized by N.V. Trung, G. Valla, et al. More information will soon be available on the conference web page.

On the occasion of his sixt-fifth birthday and in celebration of his contributions to both commutative algebra and algebraic geometry, there will be a Midwest Commutative Algebra and Geometry Conference in honor of Joseph Lipman at Purdue University, May 17-21, 2004.
The conference is organized around Lipman’s research interests, including resolution of singularities, singularity theory, Rees algebras and Briancon-Skoda theorems, duality theory and homological algebra. The organizers are William Heinzer, Craig Huneke, and Bernd Ulrich. More information, including a list of prospective speakers, is on the conference web page.

The Joint AMS-SMM International Meeting in Houston, TX will run May 13-15, 2004. There will be several events of interest to Commutative Algebraists.

• Pedro Luis Del Angel will organize a Special Session on Algebraic Geometry.
• Srikanth Iyengar and Graham Leuschke will organize a Special Session on the Homological Algebra of Commutative Rings
• Rita Zuazua and Gordana G. Todorov will organize a Special Session on Representations of Algebras
• Bernd Sturmfels will give the Erdös Memorial Lecture
• Luchezar Avramov will give a plenary address on “Homomorphisms of commutative rings”

Whew! That should be a great conference. For more information, see the AMS page for the meeting.

The Third Duke Mathematical Journal Conference will be held at Duke University, from 23-25 April 2004. The focus of the meeting will be on subject areas appearing frequently in the DMJ, as represented by younger mathematicians (both as speakers and participants). The goal of the Conference is to provide a forum where young mathematicians can meet each other and learn about exciting new developments in important fields not necessarily their own. There will be 8 talks by prominent “younger” mathematicians representing a cross-section of areas frequently appearing in the Journal.

• * Denis Auroux (MIT), symplectic geometry
• * Manjul Bhargava (Clay Institute & Princeton), number theory
• * Alexei Borodin (Clay Institute & CalTech), integrable systems
• * Tobias Colding (Courant Institute, NYU), differential geometry
• * Annette Huber (Leipzig), arithmetic geometry
• * Ezra Miller (Minnesota), combinatorics
• * Mircea Mustata (Clay Institute), algebraic geometry
• * Gigliola Staffilani (MIT), partial differential equations

For more information, as well as registration forms and support requests, see the conference webpage.

Alberto Corso, Claudia Polini, and Wolmer Vasconcelos will organize a Special Sesson on Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry at the Spring Eastern Section Meeting of the AMS, to be held in Lawrenceville, NJ, April 17-18, 2004.
For more information, see the AMS page for the conference.

There will be a Special Session on “Theory of Rings and Modules” at the Spring Central Section Meeting of the AMS, March 26-27, 2004. The session is being organized by Nguyen Viet Dung, Franco Guerriero, Dinh Van Huynh, and Pramod Kanwar, all of Ohio University. For more information, see the AMS page for the meeting.