Author: ssather

The Summer Meeting of the Canadian Mathematical Society will be held at the University of Regina, June 2-4, 2012 (Saturday-Monday). This meeting will include a Special Session on Interactions Between Algebraic Geometry and Commutative Algebra, co-organized by Susan Cooper and Sean Sather-Wagstaff. For more information on the session, see the website maintained by the organizers.

A Workshop on Algebra and Geometry will be held at the University of Regina May 29-June 1, 2012. It will consist of three courses:

• Differential Graded Commutative Algebra,
• Secant Varieties, and
• Fat Points and Symbolic Powers.

Each course will have daily lectures and problem sessions. This workshop is being held in conjunction with the CMS Summer Meeting June 2-4, 2012 at the University of Regina.
Organizing Committee:

• Susan Cooper, Central Michigan University
• Sean Sather-Wagstaff, North Dakota State University
• Donald Stanley, University of Regina

The Spring Central Section Meeting of the AMS will be held at the University of Kansas, March 30 – April 1, 2012 (Friday – Sunday). This meeting will include at least three special sessions of interest to the commalg community:

• Special Session on Combinatorial Commutative Algebra, co-organized by Chris Francisco, Jeff Mermin, and Jay Schweig.
• Special Session on Singularities in Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry, co-organized by Hailong Dao, Lance E. Miller, and Karl Schwede.
• Special Session on Topics in Commutative Algebra, co-organized by Hailong Dao, Craig Huneke, and Daniel Katz.

update 29 Dec 2011: There is now a local website for the meeting at math.ku.edu/conferences/2012/AMS/. It contains a lot of useful information, for example links to web pages for the individual sessions and things like hotels and restaurants.

A special session on Commutative Algebra and Modules will be organized for the coming Fourth International Conference on Mathematical Sciences (ICM-2012), March 11-14, 2012, at the United Arab Emirates University, Al-Ain, UAE (one hour away by car from Dubai).

For more information see the link http://icm.uaeu.ac.ae.

The conference is sponsored by the AMS. Organizers of this special session are A. Badawi (American University, Sharjah, UAE) and M. Fontana (Universitá “Roma Tre”).

The Southwest Local Algebra Meeting 2012 will take place at Texas Tech University, March 3-4, 2012. See the website http://www.math.ttu.edu/~lchriste/slam2012.html for more information.

There will be a commutative algebra conference at Georgia State University on February 10-12, 2012. For more information please see:
http://www2.gsu.edu/~matfxe/gsu-usc/cagsu.html.

The 2nd Seminar on Combinatorial Commutative Algebra will be held February 8-9, 2012 at the School of Mathematics at the IPM, Tehran, Iran.
More information is available at the IPM bulletin board: http://www.ipm.ac.ir/ViewNewsInfo.jsp?NTID=490.

The 8th seminar “On commutative algebra and related topics” will be held on November 30 & December 1, 2011, at the School of Mathematics of IPM, Tehran, Iran. For more information visit the seminar web site: http://www.ipm.ac.ir/ViewNewsInfo.jsp?NTID=486.

The Fall Central Section Meeting of the AMS will be held at the University of Nebrask-Lincoln, October 14-16, 2011 (Friday – Sunday). This meeting will include at least three special sessions of interest to the commalg community:

• Special Session on Algebraic Geometry and Graded Commutative Algebra co-organized by Susan Cooper and Brian Harbourne.
• Special Session on Local Commutative Algebra co-organized by H Ananthnarayan, Ines B. Henriques and Hamid Rahmati.
• Special Session on Commutative Algebra co-organized by Christina Eubanks-Turner and Aihua Li.

update: The AMS is offering travel grants for this meeting. See this post for more information.
update 2011-10-20/28: Brian Harbourne from UNL is hosting group photos and PDFs of slides from the sessions. Go see! In particular, here are photo 1 and photo 2.
commalg.org is also hosting some of the material from the special Appreciation Event for Roger and Sylvia Wiegand, titled “The Wiegands’ Algebra Family”:

• The presentation in PowerPoint or PDF.
• The Wiegands’ mathematical family trees, combined
• Roger’s mathematical family tree with students and grandstudents
• Sylvia’s mathematical family tree with students and grandstudents
• Showercap photo

The “monica conference” MONomial Ideals, Computations and Applications will be held at the CIEM Castro Urdiales (Cantabria, Spain) July 11-13, 2011. more information can be found at the conference website.