Workshop on Groups and Semigroups

60th birthday of Mikhail Volkov

Porto, Portugal, June 9, 2015

This workshop is developed within the FCT Project UID/MAT/00144/2013 of CMUP

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.