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Groups, Algebras, Identities -- Honoring Boris Plotkin's 90th birthday

Sunday March 20th, Institute of Advanced Studies (Hebrew University)
  10:00-10:50   Vladimir N. Remeslennikov What is Universal Algebraic Geometry?
  10:50-11:20   coffee
  11:20-12:10   Nikolay Romanovsky Hilbert's Nullstellensatz in algebraic geometry over rigid solvable groups
  12:20-13:10   Zlil Sela Word equations
  13:10-15:00   lunch (Beit Belgia)
  15:00-15:50   Avinoam Mann Curiouser and Curioser, said Alice (partition formulae connected with abelian and non-abelian groups)
  15:50-16:10   coffee
  16:10-16:40   Grigory Zhitomirsky On logically-geometric types of algebras
  16:45-17:15   Arkady Tsurkov Classification problem of quasi-varieties of the nilpotent class 2 torsion free groups is wild. How UAG works.
  17:25-17:55   Boris Plotkin How it was: glimpse of the past
  18:00   Reception (at the IAS)

Monday, March 21st, Institute of Advanced Studies (Hebrew University)
  10:00-10:50   Ilya Rips Combinatorics of Engel relators and the geometry of the Cayley graph of the free Engel group
  10:50-11:20   coffee
  11:20-12:10   Boris Plotkin Algebra and logic in varieties of algebras
  12:20-13:10   Rostislav Grigorchuk Groups, automata, and automatically generated sequences
  13:10-15:00   lunch (Beit Belgia)
  15:00-15:50   Boris Zilber The geometrical semantics of algebraic quantum mechanics
  15:50-16:10   coffee
  16:10-16:40   Vladislav Kharchenko Quantum Lie theory
  16:45-17:15   Grigory Mashevitsky The Galois correspondence between semigroups of transformations and logic formulas
  18:00   Festive Dinner (Prima Park Hotel, Jerusalem)

Tuesday, March 22nd, Building 211, Lecture Hall 112 (Bar Ilan University)
  10:00-10:50   Efim Zelmanov On groups with identities
  10:50-11:20   coffee
  11:20-12:10   Ivan Shestakov Simple finite dimensional noncommutative Jordan superalgebras
  12:20-13:10   Eli Aljadeff and Louis Rowen Specht's conjecture
  13:10-14:40   lunch (1004 building)
  14:40-15:10   Andrey Elishev Independence of the B-KK Isomorphism of Infinite Prime and Kontsevich conjecture
  15:15-15:40   Alexander Lashkhi Modeling of ring geometry from von Neumann's Point of view
  15:40-16:10   coffee
  16:10-16:35   Alexander Pinus Algebraic Sets of Universal Algebras and Algebraic Closure Operator
  16:40-16:55   Janis Cirulis Models of a freeoid and algebraic logic
  17:10   Movie ["Eliyahu Rips: The Burning"] with commentary

Wednesday, March 23rd, Beck Auditorium (Bar Ilan University)
  10:00-10:50   Yuri Ershov Continuous lattices and essentially complete topological spaces
  10:50-11:20   coffee
  11:20-12:10   Mikhail Volkov The finite basis problem for Kauffman monoids
  12:20-13:10   I. Ivanov-Pogodaev Construction of infinite finitely presented nil-semigroup
  13:10-14:40   lunch (restaurants mall outside the university)
  14:40-15:30   Stuart Margolis CW-Decompositions, Leray Numbers and the Cohomology of Left Regular Band Algebras
  15:30-15:50   coffee
  15:50-16:40   Leonid Bokut' Composition-Diamond lemmas for associative (Lie) algebras and Lyndon-Shirshov (Lie) words
  16:45-17:10   Ruvim Lipyanski Wild and superwild problems in algebra
  17:15-18:00   Discussions

Thursday, March 24th, Einstein Institute, Lecture hall 2 (Hebrew University)
  10:00-10:50   Vahagn Mikaelian On ascending series of nilpotent subvarieties in soluble varieties of groups
  10:50-11:20   coffee
  11:20-12:10   Artem Shevljakov Compactness conditions in universal algebraic geometry
  12:15-12:40   Elena Aladova Syntax versus semantics in knowledge bases
  12:40-12:50   Evgeniia Mogilanskaia About Tamura's problem
  13:00   Excursion (packed lunch, expect to return to hotel around 20:00)








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