Seminars
Algebra & Logic Seminar
2012-2013
| Nov 9 | Ales Drapal (Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic) Cyclic extensions of Moufang loops |
| Nov 9 | Florian Sobieczky Ergodic equivalence relations, invariant measures and random trees |
| Oct 19, 26 Nov 2 |
John Griesmer Ultrafilters, semigroups, and Ramsey Theory I-III |
| Oct 5, 12 | Rick Ball The sheaf representation of a truncated l-group I, II |
| Nov 9 | Petr Vojtechovsky Commutator theory for loops I, II |
2011-2012
| Jun 1 | David Stanovsky Quandles |
| May 29 | Tomas Kepka (Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic) Constructions of semigroups and semirings |
| May 25 | David Stanovsky Left-distributive groupoids |
| May 17 | Libor Barto (McMaster University, Canada and Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic) Robust algorithms for CSPs |
| Apr 27 | Rick Ball Truncated and diminished lattice-ordered groups |
| Apr 6, 13, 20 | Nick Galatos Beth definability via a categorical equivalence I-III |
| Mar 2 | David Stanovsky (Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic) Nilpotent and solvable algebras |
| Feb 17, 24 | David Stanovsky (Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic) Abelian algebras |
| Jan 20, Feb 10 | David Stanovsky (Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic) Algebra and Constraint Satisfaction |
| Jan 13 | David Stanovsky (Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic) Modern universal algebra |
| Jan 6 | Petr Vojtechovsky Computational aspects of loop theory |
| Dec 16 | Alexander Grishkov (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil) Nilpotent Moufang loops |
| Nov 11-18 | Dylene Barros (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil) Commutative automorphic loops of order p^3 |
| Nov 4 | Michael Kinyon Torsors and semitorsors |
| Oct 14 | Petr Vojtechovsky Geometric loop constructions |
| Sep 23 | Nick Galatos l-pregroups |
2010-2011
| Apr-May | Michael Kinyon Semigroups I-III |
| Jan-Apr | Rick Ball Birkhoff's theorem from a categorical perspective I-VI |
| Oct 29 | Mark Greer * Constructions of diassociative loops |
| Oct 29 | Jenya Kirshtein * Automorphism groups of Cayley-Dickson loops |
| Oct 22 | Kyle Pula * Combinatorial Nullstellensatz and transversals in latin squares |
| Oct 15 | Natasha Dobrinen Some structure theorems in the Tukey types of ultrafilters |
| Oct 8 | Natasha Dobrinen Introduction to ultrafilters, the Rudin-Keisler ordering, and the Tukey ordering |
| Oct 1 | Natasha Dobrinen More canonizations |
| Sep 24 | Natasha Dobrinen A canonical Ramsey theorem |
2009-2010
| May 21 | Natasha Dobrinen Tukey types of ultrafilters |
| May 14 | Natasha Dobrinen Two key theorems |
| Apr 30 | Jenya Kirshtein Cayley-Dickson loops |
| Apr 23 | Petr Vojtechovsky Searching for simple automorphic loops |
| Apr 2-16 | Rick Ball The P-frame reflection of a completely regular frame I-III |
| Mar 30 | Kenneth Johnson (Penn State Abington) The FKG-inequality and applications |
| Mar 9 | Michael Kinyon Loops |
| Feb 11 | Alexandr Grishkov (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil) Bol loops |
| Jan 12 - Feb 2 | Nick Galatos The isomorphism problem for logics over M-sets I, II |
| Oct 26 - Nov 16 | Ales Drapal (Charles University in Prague) Latin bitrades I-IV |
| Oct 5-19 | Stan Gudder Search for quantum reality I-III |
| Sep 28 | Petr Vojtechovsky Distances of groups |
| Sep 21 | Michael Kinyon Semisimple bands |
2007-2008
| May 23 | Peter Jipsen (Chapman) The structure of free domain semirings and their representation by binary relations |
| May 2-30 | Nikolaos Galatos Residuated frames I-IV |
| Apr 18 | Dan Daly Epimorphisms and surjections in groups |
| Mar 7 - Apr 11 | Rick Ball Homomorphism dualities I-IV |
| Feb 8-22 | Petr Vojtechovsky Codes over GF(p) with prescribed intersections I-III |
| Jan 11 - Feb 1 | Michael Kinyon Skew lattices I-IV |
| Oct 29 - Nov 12 | Natasha Dobrinen Von Neumann's problem and Maharam's problem I-III |
| Sep 17 - Oct 15 | Rick Ball Forbidden configurations in Priestley spaces I-V |
2006-2007
| May 30 | Kenneth Johnson (Penn State Abington) Group matrices, harmonic analysis and the finite Fourier transform |
| May | Rick Ball Full-blown Priestley duality |
| April | Michael Kinyon and Petr Vojtechovsky On simple Bol loops |
| Winter | Michael Kinyon and Petr Vojtechovsky Series of talks on loops and quasigroups |
| Fall | Eric Zenk Frames |
2005-2006
| All year | Rick Ball Lattices and dualities |