Category: Conference Listings

The Spring Southeastern AMS Sectional Meeting will be at Auburn University, Auburn, AL  on March 15-17, 2019 (Friday – Sunday).  Below are some commutative algebra sessions that will run there:

• Special Session on Commutative and Combinatorial Algebra (Code: SS 3A)
  Selvi Kara Beyarslan, University of South Alabama selvi@southalabama.edu
  Alessandra Costantini, Purdue University
• Special Session on Developments in Commutative Algebra (Code: SS 1A)
  Eloísa Grifo, University of Michigan
  Patricia Klein, University of Kentucky triciajk@umich.edu

There will be a Spring School and Workshop on Polytopes March 11-15, 2019, at the Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. The Spring School will last for two days, and the Workshop for three days.
The Spring School will include three crash courses, by

• Tim Römer (Osnabrück)
• Pierre Calka (Rouen)
• Hailun Zheng (Michigan)

The Workshop’s topics include (but are not limited to)

• face enumeration,
• the study of special classes of polytopes, such as simplicial, balanced, centrally symmetric and flag polytopes,
• high-dimensional aspects and threshold phenomena,
• asymptotic and approximation properties.

Invited speakers include:

• Imre Bárány (Hungarian Academy of Sciences),
• Martin Henk (Technical University of Berlin),
• Eran Nevo (Hebrew University of Jerusalem),
• Isabella Novik (University of Washington),
• Matthias Reitzner (University of Osnabrück),
• Elisabeth Werner (Case Western Reserve University).

For more information, including registration, see the web page for the Spring School and Workshop.

The 2019 edition of the Southwest Local Algebra Meeting will be held at the University of Texas at El Paso, 23–24 February 2019.
There is a registration form at the meeting website. Early registrants have priority for support.
Confirmed Speakers

• Anton Dochtermann (Texas State University)
• Michael DiPasquale (Colorado State University)
• Ezra Miller (Duke University)
• Brandilyn Stigler (Southern Methodist University)
• Emily Witt (University of Kansas)
• Piotr Wojciechowski (University of Texas at El Paso)

Organizers

• Lars Winther Christensen (Texas Tech University)
• Art Duval (University of Texas at El Paso)
• Louiza Fouli (New Mexico State University)
• David Jorgensen (University of Texas at Arlington)

The Joint Mathematics Meetings for 2019 will be held in Baltimore MD, January 16-19. There will be at least a couple of Special Sessions of interest to commutative algebraists:

• AMS Special Session on Commutative Ring Theory: Research for Undergraduate and Early Graduate Students, organized by Nicholas Baeth and Branden Stone
• AMS Special Session on Recent Advances in Homological and Commutative Algebra, organized by Neil Epstein, Claudiu Raicu, and Alexandra Seceleanu.

For more information see jointmathematicsmeetings.org.

There will be a Workshop on “Combinatorial Categories in Algebra and Topology”, November 22-24, 2018, at the University of Osnabrück. The organizers are Tim Römer, Oliver Röndigs and Markus Spitzweck.
Invited speakers include:

• Rob H. Eggermont (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)
• Moritz Groth (University of Bonn, Germany)
• Javier J. Gutiérrez (Universidad de Cantabria, Spain)
• Henning Krause (University of Bielefeld, Germany)
• Liping Li (Hunan Normal University, China)
• Ieke Moerdijk (University of Utrecht, The Netherlands)
• Uwe Nagel (University of Kentucky, USA)
• Dang Hop Nguyen (Hanoi Institute of Mathematics, Vietnam)
• Steffen Sagave (University of Bonn, Germany)
• Stefan Schwede (University of Bonn, Germany)

For more information see the web page for the workshop.

There will be a workshop on D-modules and Hodge Theory at UIC November 16-18, 2018.
There will be 3 introductory lecture series given by Donu Arapura, Mircea Mustata and Mihnea Popa.
The deadline for full consideration of financial support is September 16. Women and minorities are particularly encouraged to apply. For questions about the workshop in general, please email Nicholas Switala at nswitala@uic.edu or see the webpage for the workshop.

There will be a conference at Tulane University conference on “Commutative Algebra and Representation Theory” on November 8 — 11, 2018. The goal of this conference is to bring researchers from commutative algebra, algebraic combinatorics and representation theory together to stimulate further research interaction and collaboration across these areas. Limited funding for local accommodation is available for graduate students and junior researchers. If you would like to participate to this conference, please send an email to one of the organizers: Mahir Bilen Can (mcan@tulane.edu); Tai Huy Ha (tha@tulane.edu).
Confirmed speakers:

• Jacopo Gandini (Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy)
• Takayuki Hibi (Osaka University, Japan)
• Roy Joshua (The Ohio State University, USA)
• Kiumars Kaveh (University of Pittsburg)
• Uwe Nagel (University of Kentucky, USA)
• Lex Renner (University of Western Ontario, Canada)
• Tim Römer (Universität Osnabrück)
• Bart Van Steirteghem (City University of New York)
• Adam Van Tuyl (McMaster University, Canada)

For more information see the conference website:
http://www.math.tulane.edu/~mcan/CommutativeRepresentation.html
 

The 2018 Fall Southeastern Sectional Meeting of the AMS will be held at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR on November 3-4, 2018 (Saturday – Sunday). The following are relevant sessions.

• Special Session on Interactions Between Combinatorics and Commutative Algebra
  Organizers:
  Ashwini Bhat, Oklahoma State University
  Chris Francisco, Oklahoma State University chris.francisco@okstate.edu
  Jeffrey Mermin, Oklahoma State University

• Special Session on Commutative Algebra
  Organizers:
  Alessandro De Stefani, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  Paolo Mantero, University of Arkansas
  Thomas Polstra, University of Utah polstra@math.utah.edu

• Special Session on Advances in Birational Geometry
  Organizers:
  Roi Docampo-Álvarez, University of Oklahoma
  Lance Edward Miller, University of Arkansas lem016@uark.edu
  Wenbo Niu, University of Arkansas

The Fall Western Sectional Meeting of the AMS will be held at San Francisco State University, on October 27-28, 2018 (Saturday – Sunday). The following sessions will run:

• Homological Aspects in Commutative Algebra and Representation Theory
  Organizers:
  Srikanth B. Iyengar, University of Utah
  Julia Pevtsova, University of Washington
• Homological Aspects of Noncommutative Algebra and Geometry
  Organizers:
  Dan Rogalski, University of California San Diego
  Sarah Witherspoon, Texas A&M University
  James Zhang, University of Washington

The 2018 Fall Central Sectional Meeting of the AMS will be at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI on October 20-21, 2018 (Saturday – Sunday).  The sessions below are some of the ones of interest to commutative algebraists that will run there:

• Special Session on Advances in Commutative Algebra
  Organizers:
  Jack Jeffries, University of Michigan jackjeff@umich.edu
  Linquan Ma, Purdue University
  Karl Schwede, University of Utah

• Special Session on Commutative Algebra and Complexity 
  Organizers:
  Harm Derksen, University of Michigan hderksen@umich.edu
  Francesca Gandini, University of Michigan
  Visu Makam, University of Michigan

• Special Session on Commutative Ring Theory 
  Organizers:
  Joe Stickles, Millikin University
  Darrin Weber, University of Evansville dw238@evansville.edu
• Special Session on Multiplicities and Volumes: An Interplay Among Algebra, Combinatorics, and Geometry
  Organizers:
  Federico Castillo, University of Kansas
  Jonathan Montaño, New Mexico State University jmon@nmsu.edu