MSRI Summer School at the Fields Institute
June 2 - June 13
There will be an SLMath Summer School at the Fields Institute in Toronto in Summer 2025, the Séminaire de Mathématiques Supérieures (SMS) 2025 : An Introduction to Recent Trends in Commutative Algebra. The school will be held on June 2 – 13, 2025, and it is part of the Spring 2025 Fields Institute thematic program in Commutative Algebra and Applications. Students can either be nominated by their departments to attend, if their department is an institutional member of SLMath (nominations start on December 1, 2024) or apply to attend here by February 28, 2025.
More information can be found on the school’s website.
The 2025 SMS will allow graduate students to learn about a number of recent trends and advances in the field of commutative algebra. The aim of the SMS is to provide an “on-ramp” for graduate students interested in algebra, combinatorics, and/or algebraic combinatorics to learn more about commutative algebra’s interaction with these fields. The introductory courses will introduce fundamental skills in commutative algebra, the more intermediate courses will expose students to cutting-edge research in the field. The school will focus on four topics within commutative algebra: Combinatorial Methods, Homological Methods, Computational Methods, and Characteristic p Methods. The SMS will provide both a series of introductory lectures and intermediate/advanced lectures from leaders in one of the four areas. The lectures will include a series of problem sessions that will allow participants to develop and hone their skills in these areas, which will be especially helpful for new people to the field. Participants will be encouraged to work collaboratively, both to enhance their own mathematical networks as well as to promote future collaborations beyond the school.