Author: ssather

Wake Forest: M2

With funding from the National Science Foundation and National Security Agency,
a Macaulay2 workshop will be held Sunday, August 5, 2012 through
Thursday, August 9, 2012 with Saturday, August 4 and Friday, August 10 serving
as the travel days. The workshop will be at Wake Forest University in
Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Activities will start first thing Sunday morning
(possibly Saturday night).
The purpose of the workshop is to bring Macaulay2 developers together with
those who would like to share or develop their skills at writing packages for
Macaulay 2 and those interested in developing the corresponding mathematical
algorithms. Some sample software projects that might be undertaken are visible
at http://www.math.uiuc.edu/Macaulay2/dev/projects/ although the organizers are also
looking for participants who might have new packages they are interested
in. Further examples of possible projects are available as part of past
workshop topics, which can be viewed at

The new main Macaulay 2 wiki page is at http://wiki.macaulay2.com/Macaulay2 and a project development page is in the process of being built there. Please take a look and consider posting your projects on that page.
Attendance at this workshop by invitation only — based on a brief application
— and all who are interested are encouraged to apply. Financial support is
available for approximately 20-30 people with preference given to younger
researchers.
Also, please note that the organizers expect to have such a workshop approximately once per year, so you should look for future announcements as well.
If you would like to attend, please let us know as soon as possible. Everyone
interested is strongly encouraged to apply, including graduate students and
postdocs. Your application should include:

  1. Information about what algorithms you would like to work on, and what you have done in the past (this is the most important piece — please put some
    thought into this and be as specific as possible),

  2. A good estimate of travel expenses, and whether you would require financial
    support for housing and meals (when available), and if you will be willing to
    share a room, (rooms are in limited supply; if additional single rooms are
    available, and you want one, the organizers may ask you to pay any additional cost).

  3. Your current institution and rank, and if you are a graduate student, your
    advisor’s name.

Applications are due by Monday, April 16, 2012 and the organizers hope to allocate funds to participants by Tuesday, May 1, 2012.
The application page is available here
A few other pieces of information you may need:

  1. Please commit to being present for the entire workshop.
  2. You will need to bring your laptop with Macaulay2 on it to the workshop.

Organizers:

  • David Eisenbud
  • Daniel R. Grayson
  • Frank Moore
  • Michael E. Stillman
  • Amelia Taylor

Stockholm: Discrete Morse Theory and Commutative Algebra

Summer School
Discrete Morse Theory and Commutative Algebra
July 18 – August 1, 2012 at Institut Mittag Leffler, Stockholm, Sweden
Organized by Bruno Benedetti and Alexander Engström.
The summer school will focus on recent developments in combinatorial topology and discrete geometry, with an emphasis on the interaction with toric geometry and commutative algebra. A promising contemporary method for getting simple explicit descriptions of topological spaces is discrete Morse theory. Its applications range from real world problems, such as shape recognition, to theoretical studies of topological spaces, which encode important invariants from algebra, geometry and topology.
Program participants will learn how to use these state-of-the-art tools to investigate a variety of topics such as: complements of hyperplane arrangements, resolutions of monomial and toric ideals, knots in triangulated manifolds, metric structures on simplicial complexes, spaces realizing desired cohomology rings, and topological representations of matroids.
Practical information:
Free accommodation and meals are provided. Visitors are responsible to pay for their own travel costs to and from Djursholm/Stockholm, Sweden. However, the Institute has some limited funds available to assist those visitors whose home institutions or research grants cannot pay for their travel costs. Please let us know as soon as possible if you need travel support.
Apply at latest by April 15, 2012 at http://www.mittag-leffler.se/summer2012/summerschools/discrete_morse_theory/.

Paris: Additive Combinatorics

Additive Combinatorics in Paris 2012, at the IHP, Paris, France from July 9th – 13th, 2012.
Details at http://caparis2012.wordpress.com/
“Additive Combinatorics in Paris 2012” will be held at the Institut Henri Poincaré in Paris during the week 9th-13th July 2012. The conference will be dedicated to the memory of Yahya ould Hamidoune, who passed away earlier this year. As such, the scope of the conference encompasses topics in additive and combinatorial number theory, additive group theory, graph theory and probabilistic combinatorics as well as adjacent fields.
In particular, this also includes certain topics on the arithmetic of commutative domains and monoids (Dedekind, Krull, numerical,…), in which Yahya had an active interest, where methods from additive combinatorics are key. There will be at least two talks, by A.Geroldinger (plenary) and S.T.Chapman. which will discuss such arithmetic aspects.
There will be a special talk on Yahya’s mathematical achievements, a movie documenting his battle against environmental destruction in his native Mauritania as well as a themed conference dinner.

Mainz: Char-p

Topic
char-p & p-adic geometry
Organizing committee
Manuel Blickle, Hélène Esnault, Vasudevan Srinivas, Karen Smith
Aim
The goal of this conference is to bring together researchers working in characteristic p and p-adic geometry to report on recent advances in the field and to stimulate the fruitful interaction between arithmetic and geometric aspects.
Dates
June 4-8, 2012.
Website
https://sites.google.com/site/conferencepgeom/
Lecture Series
The conference will be accompanied by 3 lecture series of about 3 talks each:
Andre Chatzistamatiou & Kay Rülling: Rational and Witt rational singularities.
Gerd Faltings: p-adic Simpson correspondence.
Dmitry Kaledin: tba
Invited Speakers
Bhargav Bhatt (Univ. of Michigan)
Holger Brenner (Univ. Osnabrück)
Kirti Joshi (Univ. of Arizona)
Adrian Langer (Warshaw University)
Christian Liedtke (Univ. Düsseldorf)
Vikram Mehta (Tata Inst.)
Mircea Mustaţă (Univ. of Michigan)
Sam Payne (Yale/MPIM)
Damian Roessler (Univ. Toulouse)
Stefan Schröer (Univ. Düsseldorf)
Karl Schwede (Penn State)
Shunsuke Takagi (Kyushu University)
Kevin Tucker (Princeton)
Vadim Vologodsky (Univ. of Oregon)
Torsten Wedhorn (Univ. of Paderborn)
Wildbert van der Kallen (Univ. Utrecht)