Author: Graham Leuschke

There will be a NATO Advanced Research Workshop on “Commutative Algebra, Singularities and Computer Algebra”, from 17 to 22 September 2002, in Sinaia, ROMANIA.
The organizers are Juergen Herzog, University of Essen, Germany, and Victor Vuletescu, University of Bucharest, Romania. There is an interactive calendar of all Advanced Research Workshops on the NATO Scientific Division site.
For more information, contact Victor Vuletescu (vuli@gta.math.unibuc.ro or vvuletes@yahoo.com).
Update: There is now a website for the workshop: http://gta.math.unibuc.ro/sinaia/1.htm. Please see the website for more information about the conference, the programme, the speakers, and the lecturers.

The Introductory Workshop for MSRI’s year-long program in Commutative Algebra will be held September 9-13. Invited speakers include David Benson (University of Georgia), David Eisenbud (MSRI), Mark Haiman (UC Berkeley), Melvin Hochster (University of Michigan), Rob Lazarsfeld (University of Michigan), and Bernard Teissier.
See the workshop page on the MSRI site for more information.
Update (9 August 2002): There are now abstracts of the main lectures and a schedule available on the workshop page.
Update (10 Sept 2002): Watch this space for links to the lecture notes for the main speakers of the workshop. There will also be streaming video feeds of the lectures. And photos!
Update (13 Sept 2002): Lecture notes are beginning to be available for the main lectures. Use the links below to view the notes:

• Dave Benson: Commutative algebra and the cohomology of groups
• David Eisenbud: The geometry of syzygies (This link is to the current version of Eisenbud’s forthcoming book of the same title.)
• Mark Haiman: Commutative algebra of N points in the plane: notes in .ps or .pdf
• Melvin Hochster: Tight closure
• Rob Lazarsfeld: An introduction to multiplier ideals (dead link to lecture notes removed 24 May 2011)
• Bernard Teissier: Monomial ideals, binomial ideals, polynomial ideals

Update (25 Sept 2002): Streaming video and student lecture notes are now available for these lectures.

International Conference on Algebra—A Satellite Conference of ICM2002 will be held from Aug.29 to Sep.2, 2002, just after ICM2002 Beijing, at Suzhou University in the historic and cultural city Suzhou in south China.
The conference is aimed at the following fields: homological algebra and algebraic k-theory, finite groups and modular representation theory of groups, algebraic combinatorics and coding theory, matrix theory, representation theory of algebras, algebraic groups and quantum groups, semigroup theory, commutative algebra and algebraic geometry, algebraic number theory and arithmetical algebraic geometry, differential operator rings and general ring theory, Lie groups and Lie algebras.
More information, including the organizing committee, main speakers, schedule, accomodation, registration, transportation, and a very nice poster, is available at the conference website

The Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) is holding a year-long program in Commutative Algebra from August 19, 2002 to May 16, 2003. The Program is organized by Luchezar Avramov, Mark Green, Craig Huneke, Karen E. Smith and Bernd Sturmfels. It will focus on the following areas:
Tight closure and characteristic p methods
Toric algebra and geometry
Homological algebra
Representation theory
Singularities and intersection theory
Combinatorics and Grobner bases
Invited speakers include David Benson (University of Georgia), David Eisenbud (MSRI), Mark Haiman (UC Berkeley), Melvin Hochster (University of Michigan), Rob Lazarsfeld (University of Michigan), and Bernard Teissier.
There will also be several research workshops during the year. See separate entries for these as information becomes available.
See the MSRI site for the program for more information.

The Fifth Meeting in Commutative Algebra andAlgebraic Geometry (sponsored by the Brazilian Group ALGA) will be held August 12-14, 2002, at the Instituto de Matemática Pura e Aplicada (IMPA), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
We will update this announcement with more information as it becomes available.

The fourteenth Algebra seminar of Iran will be held at Alzahra University 16-18 July 2002. Invited speakers include Alireza Abdolahi (a.abdollahi@sci.ui.ac.ir), Fariborz Azarpanah, Reza Naghipour (a.nad@tabrizu.ac.ir), Habib Sharif, and Masoud Toosi. The deadline for registration is 10 June 2002, and the deadline for submitting abstracts is 1 June. Click here for more information about registering, and click here for more information about the conference.

The X th International Conference on Representations of Algebras
July 15 – August 10, at the Fields Institute in Toronto, including
(a) July 15 – July 20, 2002 Instructional Workshop with 8 series of lectures
(b) July 22 – July 31, 2002
The 10th International Conference on Representations of Algebras (ICRA X)
(c) August 1 – August 10, 2002
Specialized Workshops:
(i) Commutative Algebra, Algebraic Geometry and Representation Theory
Organized by R.-O. Buchweitz, W. Crawley-Boevey, Y. Drozd
(ii) Finite Dimensional Algebras, Algebraic Groups and Lie Theory
Organized by E. Neher, L.L. Scott
(iii) Quantum Groups and Hall Algebras
Organized by S. Berman, C.M. Ringel
Please check the website http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/02-03/ICRA-X/ for more details.

Dear colleague,
Here is the second announcement of the conference on “CURRENT TRENDS IN COMMUTATIVE ALGEBRA” that will take place in Levico, Trento, Italy from June 17 to June 21, 2002.
Updated information concerning the meeting can be found at the web page :
http://www.dima.unige.it/~rossim/Levico.html
With best regards,
Giandomenico Boffi, Juergen Herzog, Maria Evelina Rossi
update: We’ve posted some photos from the conference!

The First Joint Meeting of the AMS and the Unione Matematica Italiana will be in Pisa, Italy, June 12-16. There will be:
1. A Special Session on Algebraic Vector Bundles (organized by Vincenzo Ancona, University of Firenze, Mohan Kumar, Giorgio Maria Ottaviani, Christopher Peterson, and Prabhakar Rao),
2. A Special Session on Commutative Algebra and the Geometry of Projective Varieties (organized by Ciro Ciliberto, Anthony Geramita, Rick Miranda, and Ferruccio Orecchia), and
3. A Special Session on Commutative Algebra: Hilbert Functions, Homological Methods and Combinatorial Aspects (organized by Aldo Conca, Anna Guerrieri, Claudia Polini, and Bernd Ulrich).
4. A Special Session on Commutative Rings and Integer-valued Polynomials (organized by S. Gabelli and T. G. Lucas).
See the AMS site, or the UMI site for more information (the latter has more local information and is in both English and Italian).