For titles and abstracts click here. Click on the name of the speaker to get slides of the talk. Discussion sessions will mostly be discussions about problems and directions, moderated by the leaders. The main ground rule is that only a session leader will be permitted to write anything on the white board: while people may explain some background and motivation for the problems.

9:30 -10:00 Refreshments

10:00 -10:15 Introduction

10:15-11:00 Rhodes

11:15-12:00 Almeida

12:15-13:00 Silva

13:00-2:30 Lunch

2:30-3:15 Gray

3:30-4:15 Kambites

4:30-5:30 Discussion session: "Connections and contrasts between groups and semigroups", Discussion leaders: John Meakin and James East

9:30-10:15 Lubotzky

10:30-11:15 Rips

11:15-11:45 Coffee break

11:45-12:30 Olshanskii

12:30-2:00 Lunch

2:00-2:45 Birget

3:00-3:45 Ribes

3:45-4:15 Coffee break

4:15-5:15 Discussion session: "Linear and transformation representations of semigroups", Discussion leaders: Benjamin Steinberg and Ulrich Knauer

7:00 Conference dinner

9:30-10.15 Diekert

10:30-11:15 Kharlampovich

11:15-11:45 Coffee break

11:45-12:30 Schilling

12:30-2:00 Lunch

2:00-2:45 Shneerson

3:00-3:45 Volkov

3:45-4:15 Coffee break

4:15-5:15 Discussion session: "Finite semigroups and languages", Discussion leaders: Pascal Weil and Peter Jones

9:30-10:15 Lohrey

10:30-11:15 Steinberg

11:15-11:30 Coffee break

11:30-12:15 Pin