Category: Conference Listings

There will be a 2-day conference in commutative algebra at the University of Kentucky, April 12-13, 2003, called the “Bluegrass Algebra Conference”. It is in conjunction with the Hayden-Howard Lecture on April 11, which will be given this year by Craig Huneke. (So BACH^2 = Bluegrass Algebra Conference + Hayden-Howard. With Huneke added, it could even be BACH^3.)
The conference is organized by Alberto Corso and Uwe Nagel. For more information, please contact one of them or see the conference web site.

Banff International Research Station (BIRS)
Banff, Alberta, Canada
Commutative Algebra and Geometry
29 March-03 April, 2003
This conference is associated with the Year in Commutative Algebra at MSRI. Attendance is, however, by invitation only.
From the workshop web page: “It is our intention to invite younger researchers and to also include first-rate mathematicians who work not in commutative algebra proper but in nearby fields. Specifically, we shall invite several leading algebraic geometers. In selecting lectures we will place a particular emphasis on recent developments, applications and future directions.”
“The following is a sample of topics to be discussed in this workshop: toric rings and varieties, Koszul algebras, toric K-theory, exterior algebra methods, arrangements of linear subspaces, Flag varieties and Schubert varieties, Grobner bases, sagbi bases, zero-dimensional schemes, elimination theory, Hilbert schemes, singularities, invariant theory.”

FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT
INGO2003
Invariant Theory and its Interactions with Related Fields
March 23-29, 2003, Goettingen, Germany
INGO2003 is an initiative of research groups in Aberdeen, Manchester, and
Goettingen working in the areas of algebraic topology, representation theory,
and commutative algebra, who have found that communication across narrow
specialty boundaries can bring huge scientific benefits. The conference is
organized around the central theme of invariant theory and will emphasize its
interactions with other areas of mathematics. It is particularly addressed to
young (European) mathematicians from diverse research areas who wish to
exchange ideas, and learn new techniques that may point the way for their
future work.
The conference is supported by the DFG (German Research Foundation).
More information concerning the programme, financial support etc. will
soon be availabe on the conference web site at
www.ingo2003.de.
For the Local Organizers:
Dagmar M. Meyer
Larry Smith

Jim Coykendall and Bernadette Mullins will be organizing a Special Session in Commutative Algebra at the Spring Southeastern Sectional Meeting of the AMS in Baton Rouge, LA, March 14-16, 2003. See the AMS site for the meeting for more details.

The fourth and final workshop of MSRI’s year-long program in Commutative Algebra will focus on Computational Commutative Algebra It will run March 13-15, and organized by Craig Huneke, Serkan Hosten, Bernd Sturmfels (chair), and Irena Swanson.
The workshop is about computational commutative algebra understood in a broad sense, including both theory and its practice in fields related to commutative algebra, such as combinatorics, algebraic geometry, group theory and their applications. It will include talks by Gert-Martin Greuel, Lorenzo Robbiano, and Michael Stillman, followed by a panel discussion on software for commutative algebra. The rest of the workshop will be in standard format, with invited lectures and time for discussions and computer explorations.
Invited speakers include:

• Paolo Aluffi
• Matthias Aschenbrenner
• Jon Carlson
• Marc Chardin
• Gabriela Jeronimo
• Gregor Kemper
• Vic Reiner
• Hal Schenck
• Josef Schicho
• Rekha Thomas

See the MSRI page for the workshop for more information.
There is also limited funding available (especially for graduate students) for travel and accomodation expenses. Information about funding is also available on the website.

The third workshop in the year-long program at MSRI will focus on Homological Algebra and Representation Theory. It will be organized by: Luchezar Avramov, Ragnar Buchweitz, and John Greenlees, and take place February 3-7.
See the MSRI page for the workshop for more information.

The B. L. van der Waerden Centenary Colloquium will be held January 31, 2003, at the University of Zurich. The organizer is H. Jarchow. Speakers include:

• Pierre Cartier (Paris): B.L. van der Waerden and the development of quantum mechanics
• John Coates (Cambridge): Number theory and noncommutative algebra
• David Eisenbud (Berkeley): Chow Forms Old and New: Leibniz, Cayley, van der Waerden and Chow, Grothendieck and beyond
• Robin Hartshorne (Berkeley): On the impossibility of the classical construction problems
• Christoph Soulé (Paris): Successive minima on arithmetic surfaces

For more information, see the conference web page or contact: University of Zurich, Institute of Mathematics, Mrs. Pia Bossard, Winterthurerstr. 190, CH-8057 Zurich, Email: bossard@math.unizh.ch, Tel.: +41 01 635 58 61, Fax: +41 01 635 57 06.

A 3 week long Winter School on Arithmetic and Computational Algebraic Geometry will be held at Harish-Chandra Research Institute (HRI), Allahabad, from Dec 23, 2002 to Jan 6, 2003. The lectures on arithmetic aspects will lead to a solution of Riemann Hypothesis for elliptic curves. The lectures will be delivered by several active researchers in Number Theory and Commutative Algebra. The computational aspects will be covered by Prof. W. Decker of University of Saarland, Germany. The school is aimed at graduate students.
Please visit the school’s webpage for more information, or contact Ravi Rao.

The second workshop of the year-long Program in Commutative Algebra at MSRI will focus on the Local and Birational Theories. It will be held December 2-6.
The workshop is organized by: Craig Huneke (chair), Paul Roberts, Karen Smith, and Bernd Ulrich.
It will concentrate on several aspects of commutative algebra including birational algebra, tight closure and characteristic p methods, Rees algebra and their applications, intersection theory, multiplicities and mixed characteristic.
See the workshop page at the MSRI site for more information.
Update (06 Jan 2003): Streaming video and student lecture notes are now available for these lectures.

The Contemporary Algebra and Algebraic Geometry Red Raider Mini-Symposium will be held at Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, November 21-23, 2002.
The Mini-Symposium will feature distinguished lectures by Robert Griess, William Fulton, James Lepowsky, Gregory Margulis and Efim Zelmanov with a counterpart of lectures by outstanding early career mathematicians including Frauke Bleher, Ezra Miller, Mircea Mustata, Claudia Polini, Hal Schenck and Lucia Di Vizio. An excursion to Palo Duro Canyon State Park will take place on Saturday, November 23.
Travel support is available for a limited number of participants. Graduate students, recent PhD’s, women and underrepresented minorities are especially encouraged to apply for travel support.
The Mini-Symposium is sponsored by the Paul Whitfield Horn Professor Endowment at Texas Tech University, the National Science Foundation and the National Security Agency.
For more information and to register visit www.math.ttu.edu/redraider or contact Lourdes Juan at ljuan@math.ttu.edu