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Algebra, Geometry, Dynamics 2025

Bar-Ilan University

Monday, Nov. 10, 2025, Computer Science building (503), entrance floor
  10:15-11:05   Zlil Sela (Hebrew U) Varieties over free associative algebras
  11:05-11:20   Coffee break
  11:20-12:10   Pavel Gvozdevsky (Bar-Ilan U) Abstract isomorphisms of isotropic algebraic groups over rings
  12:20-13:10   Rostislav Grigorchuk (via Zoom) (Texas A&M) A hunt for spectral gaps
  13:10-14:30   Lunch
  14:30-15:20   Yuri Zarhin (Penn State) Jacobians and intermediate Jacobians with additional symmetries
  15:30-16:10   Evelina Daniyarova (Sobolev Inst Math) Boris Plotkin's Logical Geometry and Theory of Interpretations
  16:15-17:05   Be'eri Greenfeld (via Zoom) (CUNY) How complicated can words be?
Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2025, Computer Science building (503), entrance floor
  10:00-10:50   Yuri Gurevich (U Michigan) What is an algorithm?
  10:50-11:40   Shmuel Weinberger (U Chicago) Morse complexity of homology classes
  11:40-12:10   Coffee break
  12:10-13:00   Alex Lubotzky (Weizmann Inst) Uniform stability of high-rank Arithmetic groups
  13:00-17:00   Winery excursion
Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2025, Computer Science building (503), entrance floor
  11:00-11:50   Arkady Tsurkov (U Rio Grande do Norte) Categories and functors of universal algebraic geometry; and automorphic equivalence of algebras
  11:50-12:10   Coffee break
  12:10-13:00   Agatha Atkarskaya (via Zoom) (Guangdong-Technion) n-Engel groups for large n
  13:00-13:25   Grigory Mashevitzky (Ben Gurion U) Non elementary and quasi-elementary inclusive varieties of groups and semigroups
  13:25-14:30   Lunch
  14:30-15:20   Alexei Miasnikov (Stevens Institute) Rigidity, coordinatization, and Plotkin's problems
  15:25-16:00   Yasmine Fittouhi (Weizmann Inst) The Geometry of the Nilfibre $\mathcal{N}$
  16:00-16:20   Coffee break
  16:20-16:45   Alexander Treyer (Sobolev Inst Math) On the equational Noethericity for groups and graphs and Kotov's lemma.
  16:50-17:40   Andrei Rapinchuk (via Zoom) (U of Virginia) On almost strong approximation in reductive groups
  18:30-20:00   Banquet
Thursday, Nov. 13, 2025, Computer Science building (503), entrance floor
  10:00-10:50   Alexei Kanel-Belov (Bar-Ilan U) Solution of an open problem from ICM 2022 on outer billiards
  10:55-11:20   Guy Blachar (Weizmann Inst) When is an almost-solution, almost a solution?
  11:20-11:40   Coffee break
  11:40-12:30   Ivan Shestakov (U Sao Paulo) On simple Jordan superalgebras
  12:35-13:10   Misha Volkov (via Zoom) (Ekaterinburg) An optimal Boolean triangular representation for Catalan semirings
  13:10-14:20   Lunch
  14:20-14:45   Elena Aladova Chestakov (U Sao Paulo) Equivalences of algebras in universal algebraic geometry
  14:50-15:40   Igor Rapinchuk (via Zoom) (Michigan State U) Groups with good reduction and buildings
  15:40-16:00   Break
  16:00-16:50   Efim Zelmanov (UCSD and SUSTech) Infinite-dimensional Lie superalgebras.



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