Author: Graham Leuschke

Georgia Algebraic Geometry Symposium

Georgia Algebraic Geometry Symposium will be held at Georgia Tech from
Friday February 23 to Sunday February 25, 2018.
The speakers will be:

  • Linda Chen (Swarthmore College)
  • June Huh (Institute for Advanced Study)
  • David Jensen (University of Kentucky)
  • Jesse Kass (University of South Carolina)
  • Lek-Heng Lim (University of Chicago)
  • Kristin Shaw (Technischen Universität Berlin)
  • Andrew Snowden (University of Michigan)
  • Padmavathi Srinivasan (Georgia Institute of Technology)

You can go to http://people.math.gatech.edu/~jrabinoff6/gags2018/ to register, request funding, and get more information about the conference. Funding is available for graduate students and young researchers.
Organizers: Matt Baker, Greg Blekherman, Anton Leykin, Joe Rabinoff, Kirsten Wickelgren, and Josephine Yu

Rings and Factorizations, Graz, 2018

From February 19th to 23rd, 2018 a Conference on Rings and Factorizations will be organized at the Institute of Mathematics and Scientific Computing at the University of Graz in Graz, Austria.
The conference continues a series of ring theory conferences in Graz from 2012, 2014, and 2016.
The main subjects include:

  • Multiplicative ideal theory: ideal and module systems, star and semistar operations,
  • Dedekind, Prüfer, Krull, and Mori rings and their generalizations,
  • Rings of integer-valued polynomials,
  • Topological aspects in rings theory,
  • Factorization theory in rings and semigroups,
  • Direct-sum decomposition of modules.

Plenary Lectures will be given by:

  • Pham Ngoc Anh (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary)
  • Carmelo Finnocchiaro (University of Padova, Italy)
  • David J. Grynkiewicz (The University of Memphis, USA)
  • Evan Houston (UNC Charlotte, USA)
  • Mi Hee Park (Chung-Ang University, Korea)
  • Pavel Prihoda (Charles University, Czech Republic)
  • Manuel Reyes (Bowdoin College, USA)
  • Luigi Salce (University of Padova, Italy)
  • Daniel Smertnig (University of Waterloo, Canada)

Scientific Advisory Board:

For more information, see the web page for the conference.

Visiting position, Universitat de Barcelona

The Departament de Matemàtiques i Informàtica of the Universitat de Barcelona is looking for a candidate with a strong research record in Commutative Algebra for a one-year visiting position with a possibility of extension.
It is expected that the candidate will participate in the research activities of the Department and will undertake teaching duties (to be negotiated).
The salary will depend on the experience of the chosen candidate and it can be up to 36k euros per year before taxes.
The start of the position will ideally be September 1st, 2018, although there is some flexibility.
The deadline for submission of applications is March 5th. Interested candidates must sent a complete CV together with a research plan of no more than 2 pages to costa@ub.edu. Recommendation letters can be sent directly to the same address.
For more information, interested candidates may contact costa@ub.edu.

Jan-Erik Roos, 1935-2017

We are deeply sad to tell the community that Jan-Erik Roos passed away December 15, 2017.
His colleagues in Stockholm sent the following:

Jan-Erik Roos studies in Paris resulted in a substantial work on Noetherian categories. Since 1970 he held a professorship in Stockholm. One of his greatest achievements was to bring together two fields of mathematics, algebraic topology and commutative algebra. He noted that there were analogous results in these fields, and a fruitful cooperation began as a result. He had many research students taking part in this work. Jan-Erik was successful in using computers to solve problems and finding counterexamples. He was very active to the very last.

ICADM-2018, Maduri, India

The Department of Mathematics-DDE, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, Tamil Nadu is organizing an “International Conference on Algebra and Discrete Mathematics-2018 (ICADM-2018)” during January 8-10, 2018. For more information, please find the attached brochure and refer the web page.
In this regard, we cordially invite you to submit research papers for Presentation/Publication to the email address icadm2018@gmail.com. All the accepted papers for presentation in ICADM-2018 will be published in the International Journal of Computer Science (http://www.ijcsjournal.com/) as conference proceedings and it will be distributed at the time of conference. After review, selected papers are likely to be published as a special issue in the following leading international Journals.

  • AKCE International Journal of Graphs and Combinatorics
  • Applied Mathematics-A Journal of Chinese Universities
  • Arab Journal of Mathematical Sciences
  • Palestine Journal of Mathematics

All the Faculty members and Research Scholars are cordially invited to submit their research papers to ICADM-2018 and further requested to communicate this information to your friends who are in active research of Mathematics and its allied disciplines.
For any clarification/help, please write us to icadm2018@gmail.com

Ragnar-Olaf Buchweitz, 1952-2017

We are deeply sad to tell the community of the passing of Ragnar-Olaf Buchweitz, in Toronto on November 11 2017.
Ragnar made deep and influential contributions to an incredible range of topics, including singularity theory, deformations, commutative and noncommutative algebra, representation theory, and algebraic geometry. He was a generous mentor and advisor of graduate students, and a particular friend to the people behind this website. His passing is a great loss to our community.

AMS Sectional, Orlando

There will be a Special Session on Commutative Algebra: Interactions with Algebraic Geometry and Algebraic Topology at the Southeastern Sectional Meeting University of Central Florida, Orlando, Orlando, FL September 23-24, 2017. The organizers are Joseph Brennan (Central Florida), Alina Iacob (Georgia Southern), and Saeed Nasseh (Georgia Southern).
For more information, see the AMS web page for the Special Session.