Special Interest Meeting on Semigroups and Related Mathematics

supported by the Australian Mathematical Society

and held at the

School of Mathematics and Statistics

University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia

over two days

Monday, Tuesday 27-28 June 2005

with series of talks on related themes

Venue: Carslaw Lecture Theatre 273

Registration: 1.30--2.00 pm Monday 27 June

MONDAY 27 JUNE TUESDAY 28 JUNE
9:30-10:00 James East: Cellularity of inverse semigroup algebras
10:00-10:30 Stewart Wilcox: Cellularity of twisted semigroup algebras of regular semigroups
10:30-11.00
--- Morning Tea ---
11.00-11.30 Noelle Antony: Parabolic submonoids of singular Artin monoids
11.30-12.00 Samuel Kopamu: The class of structurally regular semigroups
12.00-2.00
--- Beginning of Special Interest Meeting ---
--- Lunch Break ---
2.00-2.30 David Easdown: Introduction to fundamental semigroups Des FitzGerald: The Moore-Penrose inverse and techniques of semigroup theory
2.30-3.00 James East: Coset monoids and embeddings Stewart Wilcox: The semigroup of binary relations
3.00-3.15
--- Tea Break ---
--- Tea Break ---
3.15-3.45 Des FitzGerald: Presentations for the monoid of block permutations Peter Trotter: Covers for E-dense semigroups
3.45-4.15 Samuel Kopamu: The lower part of the lattice of all varieties of semigroups Brad Roberts: Bosets and fundamental semigroups
4.15-4.30
--- Tea Break ---
--- Tea Break ---
4.30-5.00 Graham Clarke/David Rodgers: Some applications of generalised existence varieties Marcel Jackson: Finiteness properties of varieties and the restriction to finite semigroups
5.00-6.00
--- Extended Break ---
--- End of Special Interest Meeting ---
6.00-6.30 David Easdown: Introduction to bosets
6.30-7.00 Tim Lavers: On a conjecture about the combinatorics of O_n
7.00-7.15
--- Tea Break ---
7.15-7.45 Marcel Jackson: The algebra of partial maps

Extracurricular Activities:

Monday from 8 p.m.: Welcoming Party

  • Common Room Level 7, Carslaw Building,
  • Includes drinks, nibbles and pizza
  • Free to registered participants and their partners

Tuesday from 6 p.m.: Dinner at a local restaurant


David Easdown
de@maths.usyd.edu.au
25 June 2005