Commutative Algebra
Organizers: A. Corso and R. Villarreal

Cocoyoc, Mexico
July 20-25, 2003

The XV Coloquio Latinoamericano de Álgebra will take place in the Hacienda de Cocoyoc (Mexico) during the period July 20-25, 2003. The highlight of the conference consists of 18 plenary addresses delivered by distinguished researchers in various areas of mainstream Algebra. The two plenary talks in Commutative Algebra will be delivered by

Aron Simis		Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brasil
Wolmer V. Vasconcelos		Rutgers University, USA

In addition to the plenary addresses there will be 9 special sessions in different areas of Algebra. The following is a preliminary and incomplete list of researchers that have been invited to give a 30 minutes talk in our special session on Commutative Algebra.

Joe Brennan		North Dakota State University, USA
Victor Castellanos		IMATE-UNAM-Cuernavaca, Mexico
Anthony Geramita		Queen's University at Kingston, Canada Università di Genova, Italy
Elena Guardo		Università di Catania, Italy
Lucia Marino		Università di Catania, Italy
Juan Migliore		University of Notre Dame, USA
Tetsushi Ogoma		Kochi University, Japan
Vasudevan Srinivas		Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India
Vijaylaxmi Trivedi		Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India
Carlos Valencia		CINVESTAV - Instituto Politecnico National, Mexico
Yuji Yoshino		Okayama University, Japan

For further information, please feel free to contact directly the organizers of the event - Alberto Corso (University of Kentucky - USA), Rafael Villarreal (CINVESTAV, Instituto Politecnico National - Mexico).