THE SEVENTH AMITSUR MEMORIAL SYMPOSIUM Be'er-Sheva, 25 - 26 June 2001 |
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The annual algebra symposium in memory of Professor Shimshon Amitsur will take place this year at the Mathematics Department of Ben Gurion University of the Negev. The symposium is held under the auspices of the Center for Advanced Studies in Mathematics in Ben Gurion University.
Main Guest speakers:
Walter Feit (Yale, USA)
Michel Van den Bergh (Limburg, Belgium)
Invited Speakers:
Amiram Braun (Haifa University)
Eric Brussel (Emory University)
David Chillag (Technion)
Maria Gorelik (Weizmann Institute)
Abraham Klein (Tel Aviv University)
Shahar Mozes (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Steve Shnider (Bar Ilan University)
Jack Sonn (Technion)
Amnon Yekutieli (Ben Gurion University)
Organizing Committee:
Amiram Braun, Miriam Cohen, Ido Efrat, Avinoam Mann, Amnon Yekutieli
Location:
Ben Gurion University Campus
Deichmann Building for Mathematics (Bldg. 58)
Basement level, Room -101
| 10:15 - 10:30 | Opening remarks |
| 10:30 - 11:30 | Walter Feit (Yale, USA) |
| Title: K-admissibility of certain finite groups (abstract) | |
| 11:40 - 12:30 | Eric Brussel (Emory University, USA) |
| Title: A Hasse invariant for Amitsur fields (abstract) | |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch
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| 14:00 - 14:50 | Jack Sonn (Technion) |
| Title: The projective Schur subgroup of the Brauer group (abstract) | |
| 15:00 - 15:50 | David Chillag (Technion) |
| Title: Algebras with positive bases and zeros of characters of finite groups | |
| 15:50 - 16:10 | Coffee break |
| 16:10 - 17:00 | Abraham Klein (Tel Aviv University) |
| Title: Zero divisors | |
| 17:10 - 18:00 | Shahar Mozes (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) |
| Title: Uniform exponential growth for linear groups (abstract) | |
| 19:00 | Dinner (registration required) |
| 10:00 - 11:00 | Michel Van den Bergh (Limburg, Belgium) |
| Title: Noncommutative curves and noncommutative surfaces (abstract) | |
| 11:10 - 12:00 | Amiram Braun (Haifa University) |
| Title: When is the I-adic completion Noetherian? (abstract) | |
| 12:10 - 13:00 | Maria Gorelik (Weizmann Institute) |
| Title: On the centre of a simple P-type Lie superalgebra (abstract) | |
| 13:00 - 14:30 | Lunch |
| 14:30 - 15:20 | Steve Shnider (Bar Ilan University) |
| Title: Brace operations in the cohomology of operad algebras (abstract) | |
| 15:30 - 16:20 | Amnon Yekutieli (Ben Gurion University) |
| Title: Derived Picard groups of finite dimensional algebras (abstract) |
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You are all invited !!!