Category: Conference Listings

The fourteenth Algebra seminar of Iran will be held at Alzahra University 16-18 July 2002. Invited speakers include Alireza Abdolahi (a.abdollahi@sci.ui.ac.ir), Fariborz Azarpanah, Reza Naghipour (a.nad@tabrizu.ac.ir), Habib Sharif, and Masoud Toosi. The deadline for registration is 10 June 2002, and the deadline for submitting abstracts is 1 June. Click here for more information about registering, and click here for more information about the conference.

The X th International Conference on Representations of Algebras
July 15 – August 10, at the Fields Institute in Toronto, including
(a) July 15 – July 20, 2002 Instructional Workshop with 8 series of lectures
(b) July 22 – July 31, 2002
The 10th International Conference on Representations of Algebras (ICRA X)
(c) August 1 – August 10, 2002
Specialized Workshops:
(i) Commutative Algebra, Algebraic Geometry and Representation Theory
Organized by R.-O. Buchweitz, W. Crawley-Boevey, Y. Drozd
(ii) Finite Dimensional Algebras, Algebraic Groups and Lie Theory
Organized by E. Neher, L.L. Scott
(iii) Quantum Groups and Hall Algebras
Organized by S. Berman, C.M. Ringel
Please check the website http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/02-03/ICRA-X/ for more details.

Dear colleague,
Here is the second announcement of the conference on “CURRENT TRENDS IN COMMUTATIVE ALGEBRA” that will take place in Levico, Trento, Italy from June 17 to June 21, 2002.
Updated information concerning the meeting can be found at the web page :
http://www.dima.unige.it/~rossim/Levico.html
With best regards,
Giandomenico Boffi, Juergen Herzog, Maria Evelina Rossi
update: We’ve posted some photos from the conference!

The First Joint Meeting of the AMS and the Unione Matematica Italiana will be in Pisa, Italy, June 12-16. There will be:
1. A Special Session on Algebraic Vector Bundles (organized by Vincenzo Ancona, University of Firenze, Mohan Kumar, Giorgio Maria Ottaviani, Christopher Peterson, and Prabhakar Rao),
2. A Special Session on Commutative Algebra and the Geometry of Projective Varieties (organized by Ciro Ciliberto, Anthony Geramita, Rick Miranda, and Ferruccio Orecchia), and
3. A Special Session on Commutative Algebra: Hilbert Functions, Homological Methods and Combinatorial Aspects (organized by Aldo Conca, Anna Guerrieri, Claudia Polini, and Bernd Ulrich).
4. A Special Session on Commutative Rings and Integer-valued Polynomials (organized by S. Gabelli and T. G. Lucas).
See the AMS site, or the UMI site for more information (the latter has more local information and is in both English and Italian).

There will be a conference on zero-dimensional schemes and related topics in Acireale, Italy (Sicily), June 6-8, 2002, in honor of Tony Geramita on the occasion of his 60th birthday.
The registration deadline is March 31, 2002 (registration form). Because the talks will begin early on the morning of Thursday, June 6 and the social dinner will be in the evening of Saturday, June 8, you should plan to arrive on Wednesday, June 5 and leave on Sunday, June 9.
More information can be found at the conference web page., including a list of organizers and invited speakers.
Update: The National Science Foundation is supporting participation by graduate students and young researchers based in the US; some of the money may be available for nonUS based graduate students and young researchers. (The total amount of support, however, is extremely limited, so we encourage all applicants to look for additional sources of support.)
If you need such support, please indicate it on the registration form. Since the funding is being administered through the University of Nebraska, please also send an email note to Brian Harbourne (bharbourne@unl.edu), indicating your intention to apply for support.
Also, a poster session has been added to the program. If you are interested in giving a contributed talk or presenting a poster, please indicate it on the registration form.

The Algebra Conference — Venezia 2002 (June 3-8) is a Conference organized by COFIN 2000, which is a joint research group of six Italian universities. The main topics of the conference will be:

• Abelian groups
• Algebras and their representations
• Commutative rings
• Module theory
• Ring theory
• Topological algebraic structures

The Conference will take place in San Servolo (Venice), at the Venice International University. It is a small island of the Venice laguna with a Conference Centre. For more information, see http://www.unife.it/veniceconference.

Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics (IPM)
A workshop on Homological Methods in Commutative Algebra
Announcement
May 25-31, 2002
Tehran, Iran
New! See photos from the Workshop, as well as lists of speakers and participants.
Organizing Committee:L. L. Avramov, E. E. Enochs, H. B. Foxby, and S. Yassemi
Talks
There will be 18 invited talks and some contributed talks as well (probably 25 minutes). If you are interested in giving a contributed talk, please indicate it on the registration form and send an abstract of your talk. The organizing committee will make the final decision on the selection of talks, but we would like especially to encourage young researchers to speak.
A tentative list of speakers and the topics of lectures
Schedule of talks
General information (Note: web links removed as of May 2011)
There will be no registration fee for this workshop. The local committee can provide hotel reservations for the participants. Transportation services will be provided by IPM.
On the evening of the first day, there will be a reception.
Tehran is the capital city of Iran. Here is an interesting web page concerning the region.
Here are some photos of abstractions to visit in Tehran.
IPM is located in the northeast of Tehran, 1600 meters above sea level in the foothills of the Alborz Mountains.
For updated information and map, see the following links:
IPM Map
About IPM
Grants
A limited amount of money is available for covering accommodation expenses. If you need such support, please indicate it on the registration form.
Reply
If you are interested in participating, please register for the conference no later than March 30, 2002.
You can register in two ways. Either by completing a registration form using your Web browser (the form will be mailed automatically to our registration address), or by completing a PDF form and returning it to:
M. Rahpeyma, Executive Officer of School of Mathematics
Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics (IPM)
P. O. Box 19395-5746
Tehran, Iran
Fax: +98 21 2290648
E-mail: ipmmath@ipm.ir

CBMS LECTURES SERIES AT TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY: SOLVING SYSTEMS OF POLYNOMIAL EQUATIONS
May 20-24, 2002
BERND STURMFELS (UC BERKELEY)
ORGANIZERS: Paulo Lima Filho, J. Maurice Rojas, Hal Schenck
E-mail: cbms@math.tamu.edu
Web Page: http://www.math.tamu.edu/conferences/cbms (dead link May 2011)
Announcement: The search for efficient algorithms for solving polynomial systems quickly leads to some of the deepest questions of modern mathematics. Polynomial systems are also ubiquitous in applied mathematics, arising in robotics, coding theory, optimization, mathematical biology, computer vision, game theory, statistics, and numerous other areas.
Exciting recent developments in algebraic algorithms and numerical software for geometric calculations have revolutionized the area, making many formerly inaccessable problems tractable, and providing a fertile ground for experimentation and conjecture. These lectures, by the leading world expert in combinatorial and computational algebraic geometry, present the state of the art in this branch of mathematics. The main thread will be to look at polynomial equations from a variety of different angles, some of them new and unexpected.

There will be a meeting of the AMS Eastern Section in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, May 3-5. Irena Peeva and Hema Srinivasan are organizing a Special Session in Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry. See the AMS site for more details.

There will be an International Workshop on Applications of Commutative Algebra, April 3-6, at the Department of Mathematics in Catania.
Topics will include Computer Algebra Systems, numeric-symbolic computations, vision, modelling, CAD-CAM, and other applications (cryptography, error correcting codes, integer programming, statistics, D-modules).
The scientific committee for the workshop is Giuseppa Carrà-Ferro (Catania, Italy), Lorenzo Robbiano (Genova, Italy), and Carlo Traverso (Pisa, Italy).
A preliminary list of speakers includes John Abbott, Chandrajit Bajaj, Olga Caprotti, Giuseppa Carrà-Ferro, James Davenport, Jean-Charles Faugere, André Galligo, Vladimir Gerdt, Laureano Gonzalez-Vega, Martin Kreuzer, Daniel Lazard, Jérôme Lebrun, Bernard Mourrain, Fabio Rapallo, Hans Schönemann, Barry Trager, Carlo Traverso, Jose-Maria Ucha, and Franz Winkler.
For more information, please email catania02@posso.dm.unipi.it or see the conference website.