Institute of Mathematics "Simion Stoilow" of the Romanian Academy (Bucharest) and the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Bucharest University, in cooperation with the Romanian Mathematical Society and the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Ovidius University, Constanta, will organize the 20th National School on Algebra, September 2-8, 2012, Mangalia, Romania. The topic of the school is

DISCRETE INVARIANTS IN COMMUTATIVE ALGEBRA AND IN ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY

The school’s lectures will take place in the conference room of Paradiso Hotel, Mangalia. They will be complemented by tutorials and exercise sessions. The conference aims at introducing students and young researchers in new areas of research in commutative algebra and algebraic geometry.

Arrival date is Sunday, September 2. Lectures will take place from Monday, September 3, to Friday, September 7.

The organizers gratefully acknowledge the financial support awarded by the National Council for Scientific Research in Romania (CNCS-UEFISCDI) through the project number PN-II-ID-SSA-2012-2-008.

The scientific report is available here. The slides of the lectures and the scientific report are also available at the address http://gta.math.unibuc.ro/~dumi/mangalia2012/ .