Workshop “Equations and First-order Properties in Groups”

October 11-15, 2010

Program

 

Monday, October 11, 2010

09:00 - 09:30
Registration (Room 5345) and Coffee & Croissants (Room 6245)

Session - Mini-course
Meeting room : 6214

09:30 - 10:20
Nikolay Romanovskiy
(Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences)
Algebraic geometry over rigid groups - I
Abstract

Slides

10:30 - 10:50
Coffee break
Room 6245


Meeting room : 6214

10:50 - 11:40
Olga Kharlampovich
(McGill University)
Algebraic theory of equations in a free group
Abstract
11:50 - 12:40
Ilya Kazachkov
(Vanderbilt University)
Elementary equivalence of groups: a survey and examples
Slides

12:50 - 14:30
Lunch break


Meeting room : 6214

14:30 - 15:20
Volker Diekert
(University Stuttgart)
Existential and positive theories of graph products over groups
Abstract
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee break
Room 6245
16:00 - 16:50
Andrew Duncan
(Newcastle University)
Automorphisms of partially commutative groups
Slides

17:00
Reception
Room 6245

 

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

09:00 - 09:30
Coffee & Croissants
Room 6245

Session - Mini-course
Meeting room : 6214

09:30 - 10:20
Nikolay Romanovskiy
(Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences)
Algebraic geometry over rigid groups - II
Abstract

Slides

10:30 - 10:50
Coffee break
Room 6245


Meeting room : 6214

10:50 - 11:40
Boris Plotkin
(The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Algebraic logic and logical geometry
Abstract

Session - Mini-course
Meeting room : 6214

11:50 - 12:40
Alexei G. Miasnikov
(Stevens Institute of technology)
TBA

12:50 - 14:30
Lunch break

Session - Mini-course
Meeting room : 6214

14:30 - 15:20
Vladimir N. Remeslennikov
(Omsk State University)
Nullstellensatz for algebraic structures - I
Abstract

Slides

15:30 - 16:00
Coffee break
Room 6245

Session - Chaire Aisenstadt Chair
Meeting room : 6214

16:00 - 16:50
Alexander A. Razborov
(University of Chicago)
Topics in Extremal Combinatorics
Abstract

 

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

09:00 - 09:30
Coffee & Croissants
Room 6245

Session - Mini-course
Meeting room : 6214

09:30 - 10:20
Nikolay Romanovskiy
(Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences)
Algebraic geometry over rigid groups - III
Abstract

Slides

10:30 - 10:50
Coffee break
Room 6245


Meeting room : 6214

10:50 - 11:40
Montserrat Casals-Ruiz
(Vanderbilt University)
Universal Completions of Groups
Slides

Session - Mini-course
Meeting room : 6214

11:50 - 12:40
Alexei G. Miasnikov
(Stevens Institute of technology)
TBA

12:50 - 14:30
Lunch break

Session - Mini-course
Meeting room : 6214

14:30 - 15:20
Vladimir N. Remeslennikov
(Omsk State University)
Nullstellensatz for algebraic structures - II
Abstract

Slides

15:30 - 16:00
Coffee break
Room 6245

Session - Chaire Aisenstadt Chair
Meeting room : 6214

16:00 - 16:50
Alexander A. Razborov
(University of Chicago)
Complexity of Propositional Proofs
Abstract

Slides

 

Thursday, October 14, 2010

08:30 - 09:00
Coffee & Croissants
Room 6245


Meeting room : 6214

09:00 - 09:25
Tara Davis
(Vanderbilt University)
Subgroup Distortion in Wreath Products of Cyclic Groups
Slides
09:30 - 10:20
Igor Lysenok
(Steklov Mathematical Institute)
TBA
10:30 - 10:50
Coffee break
Room 6245
10:50 - 11:40
François Dahmani
(Université de Grenoble)
Dehn fillings for the isomorphy problem among relatively hyperbolic groups
Abstract
11:50 - 12:40
Henry Wilton
(Caltech)
Conjugacy classes of solutions to systems of equations over hyperbolic groups
Abstract

12:50 - 14:30
Lunch break


Meeting room : 6214

14:30 - 15:20
Mahmood Sohrabi
(Université de Montréal)
TBA

15:30 - 16:00
Coffee break
Room 6245

Session - Chaire Aisenstadt Chair
Meeting room : 6214

16:00 - 16:50
Alexander A. Razborov
(University of Chicago)
Flag Algebras
Abstract

 

Friday, October 15, 2010

09:00 - 09:30
Coffee & Croissants
Room 6245


Meeting room : 6214

09:30 - 10:20
Eugene Plotkin
(Bar-Ilan University)
Word maps and equations in simple algebras
Abstract

Slides

10:30 - 10:50
Coffee break
Room 6245

Session - Mini-course
Meeting room : 6214

10:50 - 11:40
Alexei G. Miasnikov
(Stevens Institute of technology)
TBA


Meeting room : 6214

11:50 - 12:40
Chloé Perin
(Université de Strasbourg)
Homogeneity of the free group and elements of primitive type
Abstract

12:50 - 14:30
Lunch break


Meeting room : 6214

14:30 - 15:20
Abderezak Ould Houcine
(Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1)
Homogeneity and algebraic closure in free groups
Abstract

15:30 - 16:00
Coffee break
Room 6245

Session - Chaire Aisenstadt Chair
Meeting room : 1360

16:00 - 16:50
Alexander A. Razborov
(University of Chicago)
Grand Challenges in Complexity Theory
Abstract

17:00
Reception
Room 6245