Workshop “Topics in Algorithmic and Geometric Group and Semigroup Theory”August 23-27, 2010Program |
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Monday, August 23, 2010 |
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08:30 - 09:00
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Registration (Room 5345) and Coffee & Croissants (Room 6245)
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Session - Mini-course
Meeting room : 6214 |
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09:00 - 09:50
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Benjamin Steinberg
(Carleton University) Automata theory and algorithmic problems in groups - I | Abstract |
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10:00 - 10:20
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Coffee break
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Room 6245
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Meeting room : 6245 |
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10:20 - 11:10
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Olga Kharlampovich
(McGill University) Equations in torsion free hyperbolic groups | Abstract
Slides & Audio |
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11:20 - 12:10
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Alexander V. Mikhalev
(Moscow State University) Multiplicative theory of rings | Abstract |
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12:20 - 14:00
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Lunch break
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Meeting room : 6245 |
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14:00 - 14:50
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John Meakin
(University of Nebraska-Lincoln) One Relator Inverse Monoids | Abstract
Slides & Audio |
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15:00 - 15:20
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Coffee break
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Room 6245
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15:20 - 16:10
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Alexei G. Miasnikov
(Stevens Institute of technology) Limits of groups: Zariski - Krull dimension and Cantor-Bendixon ran | Abstract |
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16:20
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Reception
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Room 6245
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Tuesday, August 24, 2010 |
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08:30 - 09:00
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Coffee & Croissants
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Room 6245
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Session - Mini-course
Meeting room : 6214 |
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09:00 - 09:50
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Benjamin Steinberg
(Carleton University) Automata theory and algorithmic problems in groups - II | Abstract |
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10:00 - 10:20
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Coffee break
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Room 6245
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Meeting room : 6214 |
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10:20 - 11:10
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Jorge Almeida (Universidade do Porto)
Alfredo Costa (Universidade do Porto - Faculdade de Ciências) Presentations of Schützenberger groups of minimal subshifts | Abstract
Slides & Audio |
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11:20 - 12:10
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Nicholas Touikan
(Université du Québec à Montréal) Finding tracks in cell complexes | Abstract
Slides & Audio |
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12:20 - 14:00
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Lunch break
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Meeting room : 6214 |
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14:00 - 14:50
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Gilbert Baumslag
(The City College of New York) Random thoughts about one-relator groups | Abstract
Slides & Audio |
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15:00 - 15:20
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Coffee break
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Room 6245
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15:20 - 16:10
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Alexander A. Mikhalev
(Moscow State University) Automorphisms of free algebras of Schreier varieties | Abstract |
Wednesday, August 25, 2010 |
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08:30 - 09:00
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Coffee & Croissants
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Room 6245
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Meeting room : 6214 |
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09:00 - 09:50
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Lev Shneerson
(Hunter College of CUNY) On the growth of finitely presented inverse semigroups | Abstract |
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10:00 - 10:20
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Coffee break
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Room 6245
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Session - Mini-course
Meeting room : 6214 |
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10:20 - 11:10
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Denis E. Serbin
(Université de Genève) Subgroup Membership Problem in limit groups - I | Abstract
Slides & Audio |
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Meeting room : 6214 |
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11:20 - 12:10
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Elena Bunina
(Moscow State University) Automorphisms, isomorphisms and elementary equivalence of Chevalley groups over commutative rings | Abstract
Slides & Audio |
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12:20 - 14:00
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Lunch break
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Meeting room : 6214 |
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14:00 - 14:50
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Daniel T. Wise
(McGill University) Baumslag's conjecture on the residual finiteness of one-relator groups with torsion | Abstract |
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15:00 - 15:20
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Coffee break
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Room 6245
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15:20 - 16:10
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Mark Kambites
(University of Manchester) Monoids acting by isometric embeddings | Abstract |
Thursday, August 26, 2010 |
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08:30 - 09:00
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Coffee & Croissants
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Room 6245
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Session - Mini-course
Meeting room : 6214 |
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09:00 - 09:50
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Denis E. Serbin
(Université de Genève) Subgroup Membership Problem in limit groups - II | Abstract
Slides & Audio |
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10:00 - 10:20
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Coffee break
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Room 6245
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Meeting room : 6214 |
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10:20 - 11:10
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Sergei Ivanov
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Intersecting subgroups in free products of groups | Abstract |
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11:20 - 12:10
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Said Sidki
(Universidade de Brasília) Decision problems concerning the group of automata which have bounded growth | Abstract |
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12:20 - 14:00
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Lunch break
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Meeting room : 6214 |
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14:00 - 14:50
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Luis Ribes
(Carleton University) Finite extensions of free pro-p groups | Abstract |
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15:00 - 15:20
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Coffee break
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Room 6245
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15:20 - 16:10
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Alexandre V. Borovik
(University of Manchester) Pseudofinite groups and black box groups | Slides & Audio |
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16:20 - 16:45
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Andrey Nikolaev
(McGill University) Membership problem in $Z^n$-free groups | Abstract
Slides & Audio |
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16:50 - 17:15
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Elizaveta Frenkel
(Moscow State University) Regular subsets of free groups | Abstract
Slides & Audio |
Friday, August 27, 2010 |
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08:30 - 09:00
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Coffee & Croissants
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Room 6245
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Meeting room : 6214 |
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09:00 - 09:50
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Paul E. Schupp
(University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign) Geometric group theory, generic computability, Turing reducibility and the arithmetic hiearchy | Abstract |
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10:00 - 10:20
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Coffee break
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Room 6245
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10:20 - 11:10
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Ekaterina Blagoveshchenskaya
(Petersburg State Transport University ) Almost completely decomposable groups and their endomorphism rings | Abstract
Slides & Audio |
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11:20 - 12:10
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Pavel Zalesski
(Universidade de Brasília) Pro-p limit groups | Abstract |
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12:20
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Closure of the workshop
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Last modified : Wednesday, September 1, 2010 11:01