| PLEASE HEED DECEMBER IS A PEAK SEASON FOR TRAVEL TO INDIA FROM THE U. S. AND EUROPE. SO PARTICIPANTS ARE REQUESTED TO BOOK THEIR TICKETS * EARLIEST* TO AVOID THE RUSH. |
On the occasion of the first International meeting of the American
Mathematical Society in India organised by the Indian Academy of Sciences
and Indian National Science Academy at Indian Institute of Sciences,
Bangalore from December 17-21, the Bhaskaracharya Pratishthana felt it
would be an ideal opportunity to
further its interest in the spread of computational and
combinatorial methods in commutative algebra.
The international committee is also entrusted with the task of finding travel
funds for members from developing countries, with the help of the local
organising committee. They will also assist in raising the funds required for
holding the conference. This may be by approaching the national bodies like
N.B.H.M., D.S.T., or other local organisations, and also via Registration fees.
Chairman: R. V. Gurjar,
T.I.F.R. & Managing Council, Bhaskaracharya Pratishthana.
The Bhaskaracharya Pratishthana appropriately has taken the lead in
developing this frontier area of research in accordance with its traditions
begun by its founder, and continued and extended by its present Managing
committee. We have successfully organised two
workshops in Computational methods in Commutative Algebra so far:
The first was jointly with
the University of Pune
on Commutative Algebra and Invariant
theory which it ran in December, 1999, and this was followed up by a workshop
jointly with Harish-Chandra Research Institute,
in Arithmetic and Computational Algebraic Geometry, which it ran
in Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad from January 2-11, 2003.
The second
workshop had an international flavour with Wolfram Decker and
Christoph Lossen conducting the actual computational laboratory. We are
grateful to the N.B.H.M. for funding these programmes substantially, which
made it possible for us to conduct them efficiently.
In view of the fact that 2003 is the 60-th year of two of India's major
contributors in Commutative Algebra and
Combinatorics related to it, viz. R.C. Cowsik & V. C. Dumir, we felt it would
be appropriate to have a conference on Commutative
Algebra and Combinatorics at this juncture. We have again approached the
Harish-Chandra Research Institute, and have decided to organise an
International Conference on Commutative Algebra & Combinatorics
at H.R.I., Allahabad from December 8-13, 2003.
In view of the large international participation
expected, it was decided to form an international organising committee which
would oversee the academic aspects of the school type workshop planned in the
morning sessions accessible to graduate students, and in choosing the
speakers for the international conference being planned for the afternoon
sessions. In the morning session the participants will be exposed to several
front-line areas of commutative algebra, and some of the recent developments
and open problems in those areas.
The local organising committee
Secretary & Treasurer: S. A. Katre,
University of Pune, & Managing Council, Bhaskaracharya Pratishthana.
Member: S. D. Adhikari,
H.R.I., Allahabad.
Member: R. A. Rao,
T.I.F.R.
Member: J. K. Verma,
I.I.T., Mumbai.
Member: R. L. Karandikar,
I.S.I., Delhi
The local organising committee will look after all aspects of the organisation,
including raising of funds, accounts, auditing, travelling arrangements,
accommodation, meals, computer facilities, and usual organisational details.
We expect to invite about 30 participants from India, and about 40
participants from abroad to take part in this workshop. It will try to make
arrangements for travel expenses to the Indian participants, and for all
participants from either Allahabad to H.R.I. or from Varanasi to H.R.I. or
from Delhi to H.R.I. (The actual purchase of tickets, and its reimbursement
may be borne by us, if sufficient funds can be raised.)
The international organising committee decided to focus on a few areas
of commutative algebra which were prominent today, and had open problems
which could be tackled by students. It was also decided to separate the
areas of research being covered in this school from those being covered
in the session on Commutative Algebra being organised at the A.M.S. meet
in Bangalore. We are grateful to Professor J.K. Verma, who is helping us
to coordinate these aspects. Generally speaking, the more theoretical aspects
of research in Commutative Algebra are being covered in the A.M.S. session
on Commutative Algebra at Bangalore, whereas the present satellite conference
will
cover aspects of Commutative Algebra, related to Combinatorial and
Computational Algebra.
The morning sessions will be of "school type" with 6
series of lectures, each consisting of 3 lectures. In the afternoon we
shall have conference type talks, two of one hour (or 50 minutes) and two
of 30 minutes. All the 24 speakers will be by invitation.
We shall have tutorial sessions in the evenings in
order to emphasize the computational aspects and to include some
practical training.
The following describe the series of lectures being planned.
1. I. Swanson: On Primary decomposition.
2. N. V. Trung: On Regularity, Local Cohomology, Reduction number.
3. Serkan Hosten: Toric Ideals: Algebra, Optimization and Statistics.
W. Bruns: On Linear Diophantine equations leading to Anand-Gupta-Dumir
Conjecture