The UNL Department of Mathematics will host an international conference, "Commutative Algebra: Connections with Algebraic Topology and Representation Theory", on the occasion of Professor Luchezar Avramov's 60th birthday. The conference will be May 18 - 22, 2008. All talks will be in the Avery Hall Auditorium, AvH 115. Visit http://www.math.unl.edu/ events/special/cac/ for details. The conference is sponsored by the National Science Foundation, the Department of Mathematics, the College of Arts and Sciences and the Office of Research. All talks are open to the entire University community. The final lecture, "Tight closure and localizations", by Melvin Hochster, 11:45 am Thursday, May 22, is sponsored by the UNL Research Council. The conference has over 150 participants, representing 24 states and 21 countries.