Pan-American Advanced Study Institute (PASI)
in
Commutative Algebra and its Connections to Geometry
honoring
Wolmer Vasconcelos



organized by
Alberto Corso     Craig Huneke     Claudia Polini
Aron Simis     Bernd Ulrich
in
Olinda, Brazil
under the patronage of the
Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
August 3 - August 14, 2009

The two week program will consist of seven mini-courses (school) during the first week and advanced research talks (international workshop) during the second week. The courses will bring junior researchers up-to-speed in the more specialized topics that will be the focus of the advanced lectures and will contribute to the training of young researchers from North and South America in a timely atmosphere of international collaboration.

About the school: Mathematicians from the Americas at the peridoctoral stage (meaning those who are close to finishing the doctorate or have recently finished) attending the school will be fully supported through funds made available by the National Science Foundation via the PASI program. These junior mathematicians will be selected after a careful screening process (see the online application page for details; application deadline: March 15, 2009). The school will feature seven instructional courses on fundamental techniques in Commutative Algebra and related fields. Every course will consist of four lectures given by the following leading experts:

1. David Cox, Amherst College (USA)
2. Jürgen Herzog, University of Duisburg-Essen (Germany)
3. Craig Huneke, University of Kansas (USA)
4. Steven Kleiman, MIT (USA)
5. Maria Evelina Rossi, Università di Genova (Italy)
6. Bernd Sturmfels, University of California at Berkeley (USA)
7. Bernd Ulrich, Purdue University (USA)

About the international workshop: The lectures presented at the conference will detail recent developments in Commutative Algebra, emphasizing the connection with Algebraic Geometry, Combinatorics and Computer Algebra. In addition, there will be shorter talks by junior mathematicians from developing countries on their ongoing research. The conference will be an occasion to honor Wolmer Vasconcelos of Rutgers University, one of the most distinguished senior commutative algebraists and a member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences. He grew up in the vicinity of Recife, where he also received his undergraduate education.

These events are supported by funds made available from the following sources:

1. CAPES;
2. CNPq;
3. FACEPE (State Foundation of Pernambuco);
4. National Science Foundation (NSF), through the grant NSF-OISE 0819049;
5. Millenium Program;
6. Third World Academy of Science (TWAS).

Corrections to: pasi2009@ms.uky.edu
Last update: 6/20/2009