Schedule of the Workshop

“Polynomial Identities in Algebras”

At Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada

August 29 – September 3, 2002

All lectures and talks will take place in Arts and Administration Building,

room AA -1043 on the 1^st floor

August 29, 2002, Thursday

Opening of the Workshop

9:30 – 10:30 Antonio Giambruno (University of Palermo) “Standard polynomials, Capelli polynomials and asymptotics”

Coffee break

11:00 – 12:00 Amitai Regev (Weizmann Institute) “A_n - codimensions and cocharacters” (1^stlecture)

Lunch break

2:15 – 3:15 Vesselin Drensky (Institute of Mathematics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences), "Behavior of Multiplicities in Cocharacters of PI-Algebras" (1^st lecture)

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3:30 – 4:00 Jeno Szigeti (University of Miscolz) Computing With Matrices Over The Grassmann Algebra

Coffee break

4:15 – 4:45 Alain D'Amour (Southern Connecticut State University) *-Polynomial identities of matrices: the low degrees

4:50 – 5:20 Heydar Radjavi (Dalhousie University) “Polynomial Identities and Reducibility of Semigroups”

Wine and Cheese Party: 6 –8 p.m. at Bahturins’.

August 30, 2002, Friday

9:30 – 10:30 Alexander Kemer (Ulyanovsk University) “Conjecture of Procesi”

Coffee break

11:00 – 12:00 Ed Formanek (Penn State University) “The ring of generic matrices” (1^st lecture)

Lunch break

2:15 – 3:15 Viktor Latyshev (Moscow State University) “Specht’s Problem in Positive Characteristic”

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3:30 – 4:00 Adalbert Bovdi (University of Debrecen) “Group of units of the group algebras”

Coffee break

4:15 – 4:45 Angela Valenti (University of Palermo) “Gradings and graded identities of the algebra of n×n upper triangular matrices”

4:50 – 5:20 Rolf Rees (Memorial University of Newfoundland) “A polynomial problem arising from t-designs”

5:25 – 5:55 Roberto La Scala (University of Bari) Topic will be announced later

August 31, 2001, Saturday

Day tour to Seabird Sanctuary at Cape St. Mary. Start at 10:00 from Prescott Inn on Military Road.

September 1, 2002, Sunday

9:30 – 10:30 Mikhail Zaicev (Moscow State University) “Numerical characteristics and extremal varieties” (1^st lecture)

Coffee break

11:00 – 12:00 Amitai Regev (Weizmann Institute) “A_n - codimensions and cocharacters” (2^nd lecture)

Lunch break

2:15 – 3:15 Vesselin Drensky (Institute of Mathematics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences), "Combinatorics of Words and Constructions in Ring Theory" (2^nd lecture)

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3:30 – 4:00 Viktor Bovdi (University of Debrecen) “Symmetric units and group identities”

Coffee break

4:15 – 4:45 Leonid Krop (DePaul University) “Quantum Hyperalgebra of Rank 1”

4:50 – 5:20 Murray Bremner (University of Saskatchewan) “Quantization of Lie and Jordan triple systems”

Workshop Dinner: 6:30 p.m. at Hotel “Newfoundland”

September 2, 2001, Monday

9:30 – 10:30 Yuri Bahturin (Memorial University of Newfoundland) “Generalized Lie Solvability of Associative Algebras “(1^st lecture)

Coffee break

11:00 – 12:00 Ed Formanek (Penn State University) “The Ring Of Generic Matrices”.

(2^nd lecture)

City and neighborhood tours in the afternoon

Wine and Cheese Party: 6 –8 p.m. at Gaskills’.

September 3, 2001, Tuesday

9:30 – 10:30 Mikhail Zaicev (Moscow State University) “Numerical characteristics and extremal varieties” (2^nd lecture)

Coffee break

11:00 – 12:00 Sergei Mishchenko (Ulyanovsk University) “Almost Polynomial Growth Varieties of Linear Algebras”

Lunch break

2:15 – 3:15 Yuri Bahturin (Memorial University of Newfoundland) “Generalized Lie Solvability of Associative Algebras” (2^nd lecture)

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 3:30 – 4:00 Mikhail Kotchetov (Memorial University of Newfoundland) “Identities of the smash product of a group algebra and the universal envelope of a Lie superalgebra”

Coffee break

4:15 – 4:45 Vincenzo Nardozza "Proper subvarieties of M₅”.

4:50 – 5:20 Plamen Koshlukov (University of Campinas) “Identities in certain algebras in positive characteristic”

Closing of the workshop