MEGA 2013 (Effective Methods in Algebraic Geometry)

Mega 2013大会将于2013年6月3日至7日在德国法兰克福的歌德大学举行。MEGA是代数几何中有效方法的首字母缩写(在意大利语、法语、西班牙语、德语、俄语等中与之相当)。这一系列两年一度的国际会议的传统可以追溯到1990年，致力于代数几何和相关主题的计算和应用方面的研究。经典的子领域包括计算交换代数(Gröbner和标准基理论)，多项式方程组的求解方法，环面几何，以及计算机代数系统和数值多项式系统解算器的发展。Mega 2013还将介绍新的有效范例以及代数几何的应用，包括实代数几何和最优化、张量分解、代数几何和随机性之间的相互作用、代数数论、环形和热带几何及其与格子多面体理论的相互作用，以及在代数统计中的应用。拟议的研讨会的目的是让社区内外的研究人员熟悉最新的发展，加强现有的合作并发起新的合作，并维持和扩大该领域内现有的指导网络。会议将有9次受邀演讲、约30次演讲、一次海报会议和一次软件演示。全体演讲者名单由组织者选出，包括前辈和年轻的有前途的研究人员，以及在该领域工作的两名领先的女性数学家。提交的演讲和海报演示者将通过竞争激烈的评选过程从所有提交给会议的作品中选出。预计将有约200人参加，其中约50人来自代表性不足的群体。来自美国机构的参与者将有宝贵的机会向国际同行展示他们的作品。这将使他们能够讨论自己的工作，并开始合作，这可能会对他们的职业生涯和代数几何产生重大影响。为了向更广泛的受众传播研讨会成果，演讲和讨论的摘要、幻灯片和笔记将放在会议的网站上。最后，按照Mega的传统，会议记录将作为一家著名杂志的特刊出版。更多信息可在会议网站http://www.math.uni-frankfurt.de/mega2013/上找到

The conference MEGA 2013 will take place at Goethe University in Frankfurt,Germany during June 3-7, 2013. MEGA is the acronym for Effective Methods in Algebraic Geometry (and its equivalent in Italian, French, Spanish, German, Russian, etc.). This series of biennial international conferences, with the tradition dating back to 1990, is devoted to computational and application aspects of Algebraic Geometry and related topics. Classical subareas include computational commutative algebra (Gröbner and standard bases theory), methods for solving systems of polynomial equations, toric geometry, and the development of computer algebra systems as well as of numerical polynomial system solvers. MEGA 2013 will also present state-of-the art coverage of new effective paradigms, as well as of applications of algebraic geometry, including real algebraic geometry and optimization, tensor decompositions, the interplay between algebraic geometry and randomness, algebraic number theory, toric and tropical geometry and its interaction with the theory of lattice polytopes, and applications to algebraic statistics. The proposed workshop has the goal to familiarize researchers within the community and beyond with the most recent developments, to intensify existing and initiate new collaborations, and to sustain and broaden the existing mentoring network within the field.The conference will have 9 invited talks, around 30 contributed talks, a poster session and a software presentation. The list of plenary speakers, selected by the organizers, includes senior as well as young promising researchers and two leading female mathematicians working in the field. The contributed talks and poster presenters will be selected by a highly competitive refereed selection process among all the submissions to the conference. Around 200 participants are expected to attend, including around 50 from under-represented groups. Participants from U.S. institutions will have valuable opportunities to present their work to an international audience of peers. This will enable them to discuss their own work and start collaborations that may have significant future impact on their careers and on algebraic geometry. To disseminate the results of the workshop to a wider audience, abstracts, slides, and notes from the presentations and discussions will be placed on the conference's website. Finally, following the tradition of MEGA, conference proceedings will be published as a special issue of a prestigious journal.Further information can be found on the conference website http://www.math.uni-frankfurt.de/mega2013/