KUMUNU 2007

2007年KUMUU会议将于9月8日至9日在内布拉斯加大学林肯分校举行。KUMUU是由堪萨斯大学（KU）、密苏里-哥伦比亚大学（MU）和内布拉斯加-林肯大学（NU）举办的年度周末会议，旨在促进地区学校交换代数和相关学科（如代数几何、表示论、组合学、K理论和编码理论）的研究人员、博士后和研究生之间的互动。KUMUU三巨头在这些领域有很大的实力。KUMUU会议有一个传统，即在所有层次上发挥强有力的区域指导作用，包括研究生，最近的博士和非博士授予机构的教师。KUMUU通过提供年度场地将这些团体与KU，MU和NU的高级研究人员以及来自该地区以外的一两名高级研究人员聚集在一起来实现这一目标。KUMUU通过一系列7个简短（45分钟）的演讲来刺激互动，研究生可以参加，演讲者代表了高级研究人员，高级教师和博士后的多样化组合，在演讲之外预留了大量的时间进行额外的互动。除了KU，MU和NU的教师和博士后外，过去的演讲者来自科罗拉多州立大学，堪萨斯州立大学，密歇根州，密歇根州，新墨西哥州，圣母院，普渡大学，德克萨斯理工大学，德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校和华盛顿大学。其他参与者来自本笃会学院，密苏里大学堪萨斯城分校，密苏里州州立大学，格鲁吉亚州立大学，旅行和住宿支持，特别是对研究生的支持，是KUMUNU实现其主要目标的关键因素，该目标是展示博士后和年轻教师的研究，并帮助最近的博士和交换代数及相关学科的研究生通过会见KU，MU，NU和其他地方的经验丰富的研究人员来丰富他们的研究计划。通过学习交换代数的最新发展，通过相互交流思想，并为未来的研究发展合作。

2007 KUMUNU conference to be held at theUniversity of Nebraska-Lincoln, September 8-9. KUMUNU is an annual weekend conference anchoredby the Universities of Kansas (KU), Missouri-Columbia (MU) and Nebraska-Lincoln (NU),promoting interaction among researchers, postdocs and graduate students in commutative algebraand related disciplines (such as algebraic geometry, representation theory, combinatorics, K-theoryand coding theory) at regional schools. The KUMUNU triad has significant strength in these areas. The KUMUNU conference has a tradition of playing a strong regional mentoring role atall levels, including graduate students, recent PhD's and faculty at nonPhD granting institutions.KUMUNU accomplishes this by providing an annual venue bringing these groups together withsenior researchers at KU, MU and NU in addition to one or two senior researchers from outsidethe region. KUMUNU stimulates interaction by having a series of 7 short (45 minute) talks,accessible to graduate students, by speakers representing a diverse mix of senior researchers, youngfaculty and postdocs, with plenty of time reserved outside of talks for additional interaction. Inaddition to faculty and postdocs at KU, MU and NU, speakers in the past have come from ColoradoState University, Kansas State University, Michigan, Michigan State, New Mexico State, NotreDame, Purdue, Texas Tech University, University of Texas-Austin, and Washington University.Other participants have come from such diverse institutions as Benedictine College, University ofMissouri-Kansas City, Missouri State University, Georgia State University, University of Arkansasand Gustavus Adolphus College.Travel and lodging support, especially for graduate students, is a key element for KUMUNUto achieve its main goals of showcasing the research of postdocs and young faculty, and of helpingrecent Ph.D.s and graduate students in commutative algebra and related disciplines enrich theirresearch programs by meeting experienced researchers based at KU, MU, NU and elsewhere, bylearning about recent developments in commutative algebra, by exchanging ideas with one another,and by developing collaborations for future research.