The next installment of URiCA, Upcoming Researchers in Commutative Algebra (previously KUMUNU Jr), will take place on May 3rd and 4th at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The goal of this conference is to showcase research done by graduate students and postdocs and promote interaction among junior researchers in commutative algebra. There will be seven 50-minute invited talks as well as a poster session and a call for collaboration/open problem session. Please use the links below to register and note the registration deadline for funding is March 23rd.

List of invited speakers:

Bek Chase (Purdue University)

Caitlin Davis (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Karthik Ganapathy (University of California, San Diego)

Nawaj KC (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)

Feiyang Lin (University of California, Berkeley)

Anastasia Nathanson (University of Minnesota Twin Cities)

Xianglong Ni (University of Notre Dame)

Please don't hesitate to contact the organizing team with any questions.

We really hope to see you at the conference!

Conference Homepage

Registration Link

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Dates and Location

The conference will begin on the morning of Saturday, May 17 and finish in mid-afternoon on Sunday, May 18. All talks will take place in the ACLC Building. Please note the deadlines below.

• March 17 funding request deadline.
• April 17 abstract submission deadline.
• May 2 registration deadline.

Plenary Speakers

• Anthony Bonato, Toronto Metropolitan University
• Daniel Cranston, Virginia Commonwealth University
• Peter Nelson, University of Waterloo
• Zi-Xia Song, University of Central Florida

About

The series of Cumberland Conferences on Combinatorics, Graph Theory, and Computing began with the intention of meeting a regional need. The conferences bring together internationally known researchers, university and college professors from throughout the southeastern region, some industrial mathematicians and computer scientists, graduate students in these fields, and some undergraduate students. Particular efforts are made to include faculty and students from smaller institutions throughout the region. These conferences are typically held during the month of May, immediately after the end of the spring semester, and the location rotates among universities in the Cumberland region.

Organizing Committee

• Joe Briggs
• Jessica McDonald
• Songling Shan

• Zach Walsh

  Please contact the organizers at zww0009@auburn.edu if you have any questions.

Scientific Committee

• Mark Ellingham
• Dong Ye

This workshop, sponsored by AIM and the NSF, will be devoted to further developing the method of flag algebras and its applications. Flag algebras, developed by Razborov in 2007, allows one to solve problems in combinatorics via streamlined calculations that combine elements from computer engineering and optimization. It led to many recent breakthroughs on long-standing open problems of Erdős, Sós, Turán, Gromov and Zarankiewicz, to name a few. The technique is versatile and can be applied in other settings than graphs and hypergraphs including permutations, oriented graphs, point sets, embedded graphs, and phylogenetic trees.