London Mathematical Society -- EPSRC Durham Symposium
Permutation groups and transformation semigroups
2015-07-20 to 2015-07-30

Schedule of Talks
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Jul 20 (Mon)

14:00 - 19:00 Registration at Grey College

19:00 - 20:00 Dinner at Grey College

Jul 21 (Tue)

08:00 - 09:00 Breakfast

09:00 - 10:00 Benjamin Steinberg: The representation theory of finite monoids (Part I)

10:00 - 10:30 Coffee

10:30 - 11:30 Rehana Patel: Ergodic invariant measures as probabilistic structures (Nathanael Ackerman, Cameron Freer, Rehana Patel)

11:40 - 12:10 Peter Higgins: Using transformations to embed finite semigroups of a certain type in 2-generated finite semigroups of the same type.

12:10 - 12:40 Chrystopher Nehaniv: Coproducts for Permutation Groups, Transformation Semigroups, Automata and Related Categories

13:00 - 14:00 Lunch at Grey College

14:30 - 15:00 James East: Linear sandwich semigroups

15:00 - 15:30 Michael Kinyon: Automorphic loops and their associated permutation groups

15:30 - 16:00 Coffee

16:00 - 17:00 Christian Rosendal: Large scale geometry of automorphism groups (Part I)

17:10 - 18:10 John Truss: Definability properties of the monoid of endomorphisms of the rational numbers

18:15 - 19:30 Welcome drinks

19:30 - 20:30 Dinner at Grey College

Jul 22 (Wed)

08:00 - 09:00 Breakfast

09:00 - 10:00 Christian Rosendal: Large scale geometry of automorphism groups (Part II)

10:00 - 10:30 Coffee

10:30 - 11:30 Mark Kambites: Amenability and geometry of semigroups

11:40 - 12:10 Gregory Cherlin: Metrically Homogeneous Graphs of Generic Type

12:10 - 12:40 Problem Session 1

13:00 - 14:00 Lunch at Grey College

14:30 - 15:30 Mikhail Volkov: Representations of finite J-trivial monoids and finite block-groups by transformations and relations

15:30 - 16:00 Coffee

16:00 - 17:00 Benjamin Steinberg: The representation theory of finite monoids (Part II)

17:10 - 18:10 Manfred Droste: The normal subsemigroups of the monoid of injective maps

19:00 - 20:00 Dinner

Jul 23 (Thu)

08:00 - 09:00 Breakfast

09:00 - 10:00 Benjamin Steinberg: The representation theory of finite monoids (Part III)

10:00 - 10:30 Coffee

10:30 - 11:30 Cameron Freer: Ergodic invariant measures as probabilistic structures

11:40 - 12:10 Attila Egri-Nagy: Finite Diagram Semigroups: Extending the Computational Horizon

12:10 - 12:40 Will Anscombe: Generalised measures on free homogeneous structures

13:00 - 14:00 Lunch at Grey College

15:30 - 16:00 Coffee

16:00 - 17:00 Christian Rosendal: Large scale geometry of automorphism groups (Part III)

17:10 - 18:10 Todor Tsankov: Banach representations of dynamical systems and model theory

19:00 - 20:00 Dinner

Jul 24 (Fri)

08:00 - 09:00 Breakfast

09:00 - 10:00 Jan Hubicka: Ramsey Classes by Partite Construction (Part I)

10:00 - 10:30 Coffee

10:30 - 11:30 Slawomir Solecki: Homogeneity of the pseudo-arc through permutation groups

11:40 - 12:40 Stuart Margolis: Translational hulls as the transformation monoid of continuous maps on combinatorial structures

13:00 - 14:00 Lunch at Grey College

14:00 - 14:30 Conference photograph

14:30 - 17:00 Cathedral Tour and Magna Carta

19:00 - 20:00 Dinner

Jul 25 (Sat)

08:00 - 09:00 Breakfast

09:00 - 10:00 Jan Hubicka: Ramsey Classes by Partite Construction (Part II)

10:00 - 10:30 Coffee

10:30 - 11:30 Nate Ackerman: Ergodic invariant measures as probabilistic structures

11:40 - 12:10 Nicholas Loughlin: The Brauer Project

12:10 - 12:40 Edith Vargas-Garcia: Introduction to reconstructing the topological monoid of endomorphisms of the rationals.

13:00 - 14:00 Lunch at Grey College

14:30 - 15:30 Mikhail Volkov: Cerny's type problem for transformation semigroups

15:30 - 16:00 Coffee

16:00 - 17:00 Igor Dolinka: Representing semigroups and groups by endomorphisms of Fraïssé limits (Part I)

17:10 - 18:10 Simon Thomas: Invariant random subgroups of locally finite groups

19:00 - 20:00 Dinner

Jul 26 (Sun)

08:00 - 09:00 Breakfast

09:00 - 18:00 Day trip to Whitby and Robin Hood Bay

19:00 - 20:00 Dinner

Jul 27 (Mon)

08:00 - 09:00 Breakfast

09:00 - 10:00 Wolfram Bentz: How synchronizing are primitive groups?

10:00 - 10:30 Coffee

10:30 - 11:30 Gordon Royle: Endomorphisms and Synchronisation

11:40 - 12:10 James Hyde: 2-Generation In Groups Of Homeomorphisms Of The Cantor Set

12:10 - 12:40 Problem Session 2

13:00 - 14:00 Lunch at Grey College

15:30 - 16:00 Coffee

16:00 - 17:00 Michael Pinsker: Topological clones (Part I)

17:10 - 18:10 João Araujo: Groups and semigroups: from a duet to a chorus

19:00 - 20:00 Dinner

Jul 28 (Tue)

08:00 - 09:00 Breakfast

10:00 - 10:30 Coffee

10:30 - 11:30 Udayan Darji: Generating infinite random graphs

11:40 - 12:10 Lovkush Agarwal: Uncountably many maximal closed subgroups of Sym(w), via Henson digraphs

12:10 - 12:40 Catarina Carvalho: On a subsemigroup of binary relations

13:00 - 14:00 Lunch at Grey College

14:30 - 15:00 Max Gadouleau: Transformation semigroups generated by idempotents of defect one

15:00 - 15:30 Yann Peresse: Long chains of subsemigroups

15:30 - 16:00 Coffee

16:00 - 17:00 Igor Dolinka: Representing semigroups and groups by endomorphisms of Fraïssé limits (Part II)

17:10 - 18:10 Lionel Van The: Ramsey-type phenomena from fixed points in compactifications

19:30 - 20:30 Conference Dinner

Jul 29 (Wed)

08:00 - 09:00 Breakfast

09:00 - 10:00 Michael Pinsker: Topological clones (Part II)

10:00 - 10:30 Coffee

10:30 - 11:00 Christian Pech: Reconstructing the topology of polymorphism clones

11:00 - 11:30 Artur Schaefer: Synchronization Theory and Links to Combinatorics

11:40 - 12:10 Julius Jonusas: Topological rank of automorphism groups of homogenous graphs

12:10 - 12:40 Alonso Castillo-Ramirez: Memoryless Computation and Universal Simulation

13:00 - 14:00 Lunch at Grey College

14:30 - 15:00 Michael Giudici: The classification of $\frac{3}{2}$-transitive permutation groups

15:00 - 15:30 David Evans: Reconstruction of endomorphism monoids of $\omega$-categorial structures

15:30 - 16:00 Coffee

16:00 - 17:00 Dragan Masulovic: Categorical Constructions and Ramsey Property

17:10 - 18:10 Robert Gray: Presentations for symmetric groups encoded by idempotents in the full transformation monoid

19:00 - 20:00 Dinner

Jul 30 (Thu)

08:00 - 09:00 Breakfast and departure