The Southwest Local Algebra Meeting (SLAM) will be held at Tulane University, 7–8 March 2020. More information can be found on their website: http://www.math.ttu.edu/~lchriste/slam2020.html

This session was organized by Eloísa Grifo and Sean Sather-Wagstaff to be held at the AMS Charlottesville Sectional Meeting, from March 13 to March 15th, 2020. Since the AMS had to cancel the meeting due to CORONAVIRUS concerns, they decided to hold a virtual session on March 21 and 22, on zoom. You can see … Continue reading "Zoom Special Session in Commutative Algebra"

This will be a weekly Commutative Algebra webinar, hosted by MSRI, that will take place at 1:30pm Pacific time every Thursday. The organizing committee is listed below. Each talk will have two parts: the first part should be accessible to graduate students after a first course in commutative algebra, and should survey the basic facts … Continue reading "Fellowship of the Ring: A National Commutative Algebra Seminar"

This will be a weekly Commutative Algebra webinar, hosted by MSRI, that will take place at 1:30pm Pacific time every Thursday. The organizing committee is listed below. Each talk will have two parts: the first part should be accessible to graduate students after a first course in commutative algebra, and should survey the basic facts … Continue reading "Fellowship of the Ring: Singh, “Hankel determinantal rings”"

The next iteration of CA+ (short for Commutative Algebra Plus) will take place in Ames, IA on the campus of Iowa State University from Saturday, April 18, 2020 to Sunday, April 19, 2020. Conference participants are encouraged to visit the webpage: http://www-users.math.umn.edu/~cberkesc/CA/CA2020.html The registration page will be available soon. There is some travel funding, especially … Continue reading "CA+, Ames Iowa"

This will be a weekly Commutative Algebra webinar, hosted by MSRI, that will take place at 1:30pm Pacific time every Thursday. The organizing committee is listed below. Each talk will have two parts: the first part should be accessible to graduate students after a first course in commutative algebra, and should survey the basic facts … Continue reading "Fellowship of the Ring: Stillman, “Quadratic Gorenstein rings and the Koszul property”"

The ninth annual URiCA(pronounced like eureka)-KUMUNUjr conference will be on April 25-26, 2020, at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Inspired by the success of the KUMUNU commutative algebra conferences (KU, MU, NU) KUMUNUjr brought together graduate students and postdocs studying commutative algebra in the midwest, a term that now stretches from Utah to Michigan and North … Continue reading "URiCA-KUMUNUjr 2020"

Update 17 March 2020: This event has been cancelled. There will be a two-day commutative algebra conference which will take place at West Virginia University in Morgantown, WV during April 25-26, 2020 (Saturday-Sunday).  The conference will have 8 research talks and a  poster session for graduate students. The poster session will allow numerous young researchers … Continue reading "Morgantown Algebra Days 2020, West Virginia University "

Sean Sather-Wagstaff and Juliette Bruce are holding a virtual online conference bringing together people in commutative algebra and related fields. The conference is being held via the video conferencing service Zoom on April 25 - 26, 2020. Speakers: Christine Berkesch, Adam Boocher, Jenny Kenkel, Monica Lewis, Jenna Rajchgot, Rebecca RG, Kevin Tucker, and Keller VandeBogert. … Continue reading "CAZoom"

Update 17 March 2020: This event has been cancelled. The AMS Spring Western Sectional Meeting will be held at California State University, Fresno, Fresno, CA, May 2-3, 2020 (Saturday - Sunday). The following special sessions might be of interest. Special Session on DG Methods in Commutative Algebra and Representation Theory Confirmed Speakers: James Cameron (University … Continue reading "AMS Sectional, California State University, Fresno"

This Zoom special session, in lieu of a physical meeting in Fresno, will serve as an opportunity for researchers in commutative algebra and representation theory to share their DG ideas with one another. You can find more information on the conference website: https://www.math.utah.edu/~briggs/dgsession The meeting is open to the public, but will only be accessible … Continue reading "Zoom Special Session on DG Methods in Commutative Algebra and Representation Theory (AMS Fresno replacement)"

Dear Colleagues, We are organizing a Macaulay2 workshop at Cleveland State University in Cleveland, OH from Monday, May 11, 2020 through Friday, May 15, 2020 (with Sunday, May 10 and Saturday, May 16 serving as travel dates). The purpose of the workshop is to bring Macaulay2 developers together with those who would like to share … Continue reading "Macaulay2 workshop, Cleveland State University"

There will be a conference "Unexpected and Asymptotic Properties of Algebraic Varieties." (aka BrianFest) which will focus on interpolation problems in algebraic geometry and asymptotic invariants of homogeneous ideals. The conference will also celebrate Brian Harbourne's work in this area as he celebrates his 65th birthday. The conference will take place May 15-17, 2020 at … Continue reading "Unexpected and Asymptotic Properties of Algebraic Varieties (BrianFest)"

There will be a workshop on “Purity, Approximation Theory and Spectra” at Grand Hotel San Michele in Cetraro, Italy, 18-22 May 2020. Purity and approximation theory influence a wide range of areas in mathematics including model theory of modules, silting and tilting theory, cotorsion pairs and abelian model structures and many more. Moreover, related classification … Continue reading "Purity, Approximation Theory and Spectra, Cetraro, Italy"

International school on Tropical Geometry http://tropicalschool2020.uva.es/ This school is organized by the IMUVA-Mathematics Research Institute of the University of Valladolid (Spain) in May, 25th-29th, 2020. The main objective of is to offer to future and young researchers of distinct branches of mathematics a series of courses at doctorate level on a new field connected to … Continue reading "Tropical Geometry, Valladolid (Spain)"