A tentative list of focus periods on some areas of active research:

Linkage, multiplicities, Rees algebras and integral closure
September 10, 2012 – October 12, 2012
Organizers: Craig Huneke, Claudia Polini, and Bernd Ulrich

Boij-Söderberg theory
October 15, 2012 – November 16, 2012
Organizers: David Eisenbud, Daniel Erman, and Frank-Olaf Schreyer

Combinatorics
November 19, 2012 – December 21, 2012
Organizers: Alicia Dickenstein, Jürgen Herzog, Ezra Miller, and Seth Sullivant

Invariant theory
February 4, 2013 – March 1, 2013
Organizers: Luchezar Avramov, David Benson, and Peter Symonds

Matrix factorizations, maximal Cohen-Macaulay modules
March 4, 2013 – March 29, 2013
Organizers: Ragnar-Olaf Buchweitz, Srikanth Iyengar, and Daniel Murfet

Local cohomology and regularity
April 1, 2013 – April 26, 2013
Organizers: Marc Chardin, Anurag Singh, and Wenliang Zhang

Tight closure and singularities
April 29, 2013 – May 24, 2013
Organizers: Holger Brenner, Shunsuke Takagi, and Kevin Tucker