Midwest Algebra, Geometry and their
Interactions Conference
- MAGIC 05 -

Notre Dame's golden Dome

Organized by
Alberto Corso, Juan Migliore and Claudia Polini
at the
University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame
October 7-11, 2005


There will be a volume of proceedings of the conference to be published in the Contemporary Math (CONM) series of the American Mathematical Society. The deadline for submission of papers is August 1, 2006. If you haven't yet done so, please contact the editors of the volume at magic05@nd.edu if you are interested in submitting an article. Research articles are preferred by the AMS, but high quality expository articles are also welcome.

The conference continues the tradition of commutative algebra and algebraic geometry meetings in the Midwest, among which we single out MAGC97 at the University of Notre Dame in 1997, BACH2 at the University of Kentucky in 2003 and the Lipman-Fest at Purdue University in 2004. This year though the meeting will also have an applied component.

In order to enhance the visibility of mathematics among the diverse population of Notre Dame students as well as among the non-academic community, the conference will be preceded by a public lecture on algebraic statistics for computational biology. The lecture will be delivered by Professor Bernd Sturmfels (University of California at Berkeley) and it is scheduled at 5:30pm on Friday, October 7, 2005, in room 127 of the Hayes-Healy Building.

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

the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) through its Participating Institution (PI) Program. PI members may use IMA/PI funds to support travel of their personnel to this conference;

the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) through its Network Conference Program;

the National Science Foundation (NSF);

the University of Notre Dame through the Center for Applied Mathematics, the College of Science, the Department of Mathematics, the Duncan Chair, the Graduate School and the Notre Dame Chair in Applied Mathematics.

The following speakers have agreed to give a talk at the conference:

Giulio Caviglia       University of California at Berkeley
Marc Chardin       Jussieu - Paris VI
Steven Dale Cutkosky       University of Missouri at Columbia
Lawrence Ein       University of Illinois at Chicago
Elisa Gorla       Universität Zürich
H. Tai Ha       Tulane University
Brian Harbourne       University of Nebraska
Robin Hartshorne       University of California at Berkeley
William Heinzer       Purdue University
Melvin Hochster       University of Michigan
Anthony Iarrobino       Northeastern University
Jan O. Kleppe       Oslo University College, Norway
Robert Lazarsfeld       University of Michigan
Tien-Yien Li       Michigan State University
Joseph Lipman       Purdue University
Gennady Lyubeznik       University of Minnesota
Rosa M. Miró-Roig       Universitat de Barcelona
Uwe Nagel       University of Kentucky
Chris Peterson       Colorado State University
Sorin Popescu       State University of New York at Stony Brook
J. Maurice Rojas       Texas A&M University
Joachim Rosenthal       Universität Zürich
Maria Evelina Rossi       Università di Genova
Frank-Olaf Schreyer       Universität des Saarlandes
Aron Simis       Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
Karen Smith       University of Michigan
Hema Srinivasan       University of Missouri at Columbia
Bernd Sturmfels       University of California at Berkeley
Bernd Ulrich       Purdue University
Wolmer Vasconcelos       Rutgers University
Jan Verschelde       University of Illinois at Chicago
Marie Vitulli       University of Oregon
Charles Wampler       General Motors Research and Development Center
Zhonggang Zeng       Northeastern Illinois University