| Advances in Noncommutative Algebra -- on the occasion of Louis Rowen's retirement BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY Sunday June 25th, Maxim Hotel 19:00 | Arrival | Monday, June 26th, Beck Auditorium 10:00-10:40 | Eli Aljadeff (The Technion) | On the codimension growth of Kemer's fundamental algebras | 10:50-11:30 | Andrei Rapinchuk (Virginia) | On the notion of genus for division algebras and algebraic groups | 11:50-12:30 | Murray Schacher (UCLA) | Norms of integers in central simple algebras | 12:40-13:20 | Lenny Makar-Limanov (Wayne State U) | Freiheitssatz | 13:20-14:50 | Lunch (bldg 409) | 14:50-15:30 | Ed Formanek (Penn State U) | The Jacobian Conjecture in Two Variables | 15:40-16:20 | Allan Berele (DePaul) | Invariant theory and trace identities for verbally prime algebras. | 16:40-17:20 | Jason Bell (Waterloo) | The Dixmier-Moeglin equivalence for D-groups | 17:30-18:10 | Susan Montgomery (USC) | Frobenius-Schur indicators: from groups, through Hopf algebras, to tensor categories | Tuesday, June 27th, Beck Auditorium 10:00-10:40 | Eric Brussel (California Polytechnic State U) | Division algebras of two-dimensional local fields. | 10:50-11:30 | Danny Krashen (U Georgia) | The period-index problem for p-adic surfaces | 11:50-12:30 | Kelly McKinnie (Montana) | Essential dimension of generic symbols in characteristic $p$ | 12:40-13:20 | Max Lieblich (U Washington) | Universality questions about Br | 13:30 | Excursion (to Jerusalem) | Wednesday, June 28th (Amitsur Symposium), Feldmann Auditorium 10:00-10:40 | Amitai Regev (Weizmann) | Growth for the central polynomials | 10:50-11:30 | Amiram Braun (Haifa) | On Humphreys' blocks parametrization conjecture | 11:50-12:30 | Miriam Cohen (Ben Gurion U) | The role of left coideal subalgebra in the structure theory of Hopf algebras | 12:40-13:20 | Jack Sonn (The Technion) | Quadratic residues, difference sets and Hasse's norm theorem | 13:20-14:50 | Lunch | 14:50-15:30 | Alexander Merkurjev (UCLA) | Rationality problem for classifying spaces of algebraic groups | 15:40-16:20 | Claudio Procesi (Universita Di Roma) | Variations on standard identities | 16:40-17:20 | Eva Bayer (EPFL, Lausanne) | Hasse principle for multinorm equations | 17:30-18:10 | Jean-Pierre Tignol (UC de Louvain) | Around Rowen's crossed product theorem | 18:30 | Festive dinner (bldg 1004) | Thursday, June 29th, Beck Auditorium 10:00-10:40 | Yoav Segev (Ben Gurion) | Primitive axial algebras of Jordan type admit a Frobenius form | 10:50-11:30 | Evgeny Shustin (Tel Aviv) | Refined tropical enumerative invariants | 11:50-12:30 | Alexei Belov (Bar Ilan) | Representations of relativelly free algebras and canonization theorems | 12:40-13:20 | Eliyahu Matzri (Bar Ilan) | Massey products in Galois cohomology | 13:20-14:50 | Lunch (bldg 306) | 14:50-15:30 | Be'eri Greenfeld (Bar Ilan) | Frameworks and Approximations for the Kothe Conjecture | 15:40-16:20 | Zinovy Reichstein (Vancouver) | Fields of definition for representations of finite groups. | 16:40-17:20 | Don Passman (U Wisconsin-Madison) | Logic festival | 17:30-18:10 | Surender Jain (Ohio State University) | Almost Injectivity | | |||||||||||||||||||||||