Workshop on Groups and Semigroups

on the occasion of the 

60th birthday of Mikhail Volkov

Porto, Portugal, June 9, 2015

Program

Tuesday, June 9, 2015.
Room 0.07, Mathematics Department, Faculty of Sciences.

8:00 - 8:50	Registration
8:50 - 9:00	Opening remarks
9:00 - 9:20	Efim Zelmanov	The Specht Problem and identitites of prounipotent groups.
9:30 - 9:50	Mark Sapir	On the Jones' subgroup of R.Thompson group $F$.
10:00 - 10:20	Volker Diekert	Equations in inverse monoids and idempotent variables.
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee break
11:00 - 11:20	Olga Kharlampovich	Elementary classification questions for algebras and group rings I.
11:30 - 11:50	Alexei Miasnikov	Elementary classification questions for algebras and group rings II.
12:00 - 12:20	Lev Shneerson	On types of growth of finitely generated inverse semigroups.
12:30 - 14:00	Lunch
14:00 - 14:20	Norman R. Reilly	The lattice ${\mathcal{L}}(CR)$ of varieties of completely regular semigroups.
14:30 - 14:50	Vítor Hugo Fernandes	Semigroups of order preserving transformations on a finite chain.
15:00 - 15:20	Olga Sapir	Finitely based finite aperiodic monoids.
15:30 - 16:00	Coffee break
16:00 - 16:20	Edmond W. H. Lee	Identities satisfied by involution semigroups.
16:30 - 16:50	Marcel Jackson	The pseudovariety generated by $B_2^1$ has NP-hard membership problem.
17:00 - 17:20	José Carlos Costa	The $\kappa$-word problem over finite semigroups.
17:30	Closing remarks
19:30 - 22:30	Dinner

Special session "Algebraic Theory of Semigroups and Applications" 

The program of the special session, and also the abstracts, is available for download here.
The complete Conference Program is available at the International Meeting webpage.