Author: Graham Leuschke

There will be a conference on zero-dimensional schemes and related topics in Acireale, Italy (Sicily), June 6-8, 2002, in honor of Tony Geramita on the occasion of his 60th birthday.
The registration deadline is March 31, 2002 (registration form). Because the talks will begin early on the morning of Thursday, June 6 and the social dinner will be in the evening of Saturday, June 8, you should plan to arrive on Wednesday, June 5 and leave on Sunday, June 9.
More information can be found at the conference web page., including a list of organizers and invited speakers.
Update: The National Science Foundation is supporting participation by graduate students and young researchers based in the US; some of the money may be available for nonUS based graduate students and young researchers. (The total amount of support, however, is extremely limited, so we encourage all applicants to look for additional sources of support.)
If you need such support, please indicate it on the registration form. Since the funding is being administered through the University of Nebraska, please also send an email note to Brian Harbourne (bharbourne@unl.edu), indicating your intention to apply for support.
Also, a poster session has been added to the program. If you are interested in giving a contributed talk or presenting a poster, please indicate it on the registration form.

The Algebra Conference — Venezia 2002 (June 3-8) is a Conference organized by COFIN 2000, which is a joint research group of six Italian universities. The main topics of the conference will be:

• Abelian groups
• Algebras and their representations
• Commutative rings
• Module theory
• Ring theory
• Topological algebraic structures

The Conference will take place in San Servolo (Venice), at the Venice International University. It is a small island of the Venice laguna with a Conference Centre. For more information, see http://www.unife.it/veniceconference.

Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics (IPM)
A workshop on Homological Methods in Commutative Algebra
Announcement
May 25-31, 2002
Tehran, Iran
New! See photos from the Workshop, as well as lists of speakers and participants.
Organizing Committee:L. L. Avramov, E. E. Enochs, H. B. Foxby, and S. Yassemi
Talks
There will be 18 invited talks and some contributed talks as well (probably 25 minutes). If you are interested in giving a contributed talk, please indicate it on the registration form and send an abstract of your talk. The organizing committee will make the final decision on the selection of talks, but we would like especially to encourage young researchers to speak.
A tentative list of speakers and the topics of lectures
Schedule of talks
General information (Note: web links removed as of May 2011)
There will be no registration fee for this workshop. The local committee can provide hotel reservations for the participants. Transportation services will be provided by IPM.
On the evening of the first day, there will be a reception.
Tehran is the capital city of Iran. Here is an interesting web page concerning the region.
Here are some photos of abstractions to visit in Tehran.
IPM is located in the northeast of Tehran, 1600 meters above sea level in the foothills of the Alborz Mountains.
For updated information and map, see the following links:
IPM Map
About IPM
Grants
A limited amount of money is available for covering accommodation expenses. If you need such support, please indicate it on the registration form.
Reply
If you are interested in participating, please register for the conference no later than March 30, 2002.
You can register in two ways. Either by completing a registration form using your Web browser (the form will be mailed automatically to our registration address), or by completing a PDF form and returning it to:
M. Rahpeyma, Executive Officer of School of Mathematics
Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics (IPM)
P. O. Box 19395-5746
Tehran, Iran
Fax: +98 21 2290648
E-mail: ipmmath@ipm.ir

CBMS LECTURES SERIES AT TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY: SOLVING SYSTEMS OF POLYNOMIAL EQUATIONS
May 20-24, 2002
BERND STURMFELS (UC BERKELEY)
ORGANIZERS: Paulo Lima Filho, J. Maurice Rojas, Hal Schenck
E-mail: cbms@math.tamu.edu
Web Page: http://www.math.tamu.edu/conferences/cbms (dead link May 2011)
Announcement: The search for efficient algorithms for solving polynomial systems quickly leads to some of the deepest questions of modern mathematics. Polynomial systems are also ubiquitous in applied mathematics, arising in robotics, coding theory, optimization, mathematical biology, computer vision, game theory, statistics, and numerous other areas.
Exciting recent developments in algebraic algorithms and numerical software for geometric calculations have revolutionized the area, making many formerly inaccessable problems tractable, and providing a fertile ground for experimentation and conjecture. These lectures, by the leading world expert in combinatorial and computational algebraic geometry, present the state of the art in this branch of mathematics. The main thread will be to look at polynomial equations from a variety of different angles, some of them new and unexpected.

There will be a meeting of the AMS Eastern Section in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, May 3-5. Irena Peeva and Hema Srinivasan are organizing a Special Session in Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry. See the AMS site for more details.

There will be an International Workshop on Applications of Commutative Algebra, April 3-6, at the Department of Mathematics in Catania.
Topics will include Computer Algebra Systems, numeric-symbolic computations, vision, modelling, CAD-CAM, and other applications (cryptography, error correcting codes, integer programming, statistics, D-modules).
The scientific committee for the workshop is Giuseppa Carrà-Ferro (Catania, Italy), Lorenzo Robbiano (Genova, Italy), and Carlo Traverso (Pisa, Italy).
A preliminary list of speakers includes John Abbott, Chandrajit Bajaj, Olga Caprotti, Giuseppa Carrà-Ferro, James Davenport, Jean-Charles Faugere, André Galligo, Vladimir Gerdt, Laureano Gonzalez-Vega, Martin Kreuzer, Daniel Lazard, Jérôme Lebrun, Bernard Mourrain, Fabio Rapallo, Hans Schönemann, Barry Trager, Carlo Traverso, Jose-Maria Ucha, and Franz Winkler.
For more information, please email catania02@posso.dm.unipi.it or see the conference website.

Commutative Algebra Days is a conference in recognition of the appointment of Luchezar Avramov as the Dale Jensen Professor of Mathematics at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Speakers will include: Luchezar Avramov (University of Nebraska), Ragnar-Olaf Buchweitz (University of Toronto), Dale Cutkosky (University of Missouri), William Heinzer (Purdue University), Craig Huneke (University of Kansas, Claudia Miller (University of Toronto), Christel Rotthaus (Michigan State University), Hema Srinivasan (University of Missouri), and Roger Wiegand (University of Nebraska).
Participants should plan to arrive by 3:30 Friday, March 15. The conference will end by 4:00 Saturday, March 16. A detailed schedule will be posted by late February.
For more information, see the Commutative Algebra Days website.
update: We’ve posted some photographs from the conference. Go see!