Motives conference in Mainz, July 4-8

Conference on Motives, see webpage here. Invited speakers include Consani, Rost, Morel and Nori.

Conference on Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture

In Cambridge, May 4-6, 2011. Conference website

Derived categories workshop at Newton Institute in April

Workshop on Derived Categories at Newton Institute, Cambridge, April 11-15 2011. Conference website.

Summer school on Operads, Rational Homotopy Theory and Hochschild (Co-)Homology

In Nordfjordeid, Norway, June 2-12, 2011. Speakers include Schwede, Manetti and Loday. Conference website.

ICM 1950 articles

As pointed out on MathOverflow and elsewhere, all ICM proceedings up to 2006 have been made available in searchable format at the IMU website. I have started skimming through some of these and will post here direct links to the articles that seem the most interesting. From 1950, I particularly like the following:

• Zariski: The fundamental ideas of abstract algebraic geometry (pdf, djvu)
• Weil: Number theory and algebraic geometry (pdf, djvu)
• Hurewicz: Homotopy and homology (pdf, djvu)
• Eilenberg: Homotopy groups and algebraic homology theories (pdf, djvu)
• Chern: Differential geometry of fiber bundles (pdf, djvu)
• Whitehead: Homotopy groups of spheres (pdf, djvu)
• Eckmann: Complex-analytic manifolds (pdf, djvu)

The full list of ICM 1950 articles is here: Volume I, Volume II.