Most of the eighteen contributions are authored by attendees of the two conferences in commutative algebra that were held in the summer of 2016: тАЬRecent Advances in Commutative Ring and Module Theory,тАЭ Bressanone, Italy; тАЬConference on Rings and PolynomialsтАЭ Graz, Austria. There is also a small collection of invited articles authored by experts in the area who could not attend either of the conferences. Following the model of the talks given at these conferences, the volume contains a number of comprehensive survey papers along with related research articles featuring recent results that have not yet been published elsewhere.
Marco Fontana is professor of algebra at the Universit├а degli Studi "Roma Tre". His research interests lie in the areas of commutative ring theory and related topological aspects, with main focus on multiplicative ideal theory, Pr├╝fer-like conditions and ideal factorizations, and Zariski-Riemann spaces of valuation domains.
Sophie Frisch is associate professor of mathematics at Technische Universit├дt Graz, Austria. Her research interests are in commutative algebra and ring theory, including, but not limited to, polynomial mappings and integer-valued polynomials.
Sarah Glaz is professor of mathematics at the University of Connecticut. Her research interests lie in the areas of commutative ring theory and homological algebra, with main focus on non-Noetherian properties such as coherence, finite conductor, Gaussian, and Pr├╝fer-like conditions of rings and their modules.
Francesca Tartarone is associate professor of algebra at the Universit├а degli Studi "Roma Tre". Her research interests lie in the area of commutative ring theory with a particular focus on integer valued polynomial rings, star operations on ideals and multiplicative ideal theory properties of Pr├╝fer-like domains.
Paolo Zanardo is professor of algebra at the Universit├а di Padova. His research interests lie in the area of commutative rings and their modules, with main focus on modules over valuation domains, ideal class semigroups, algebraic entropies, fully inert Abelian Groups, and factorization of matrices over integral domains.