Memorial University of Newfoundland

Department of Mathematics and Statistics

International Workshop

Polynomial Identities in Algebras

The Workshop “Polynomial Identities in Algebras” will be held in St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada within the period of August 29 – September 3, 2002.

The Organizing Committee consists of Drs. Yuri Bahturin (Memorial University), Antonio Giambruno (University of Palermo, Italy), Amitai Regev (Weizmann Institute, Israel) and Mikhail Zaicev (Moscow University, Russia).

The Workshop is actively supported by Department of Mathematics and Statistics of Memorial University of Newfoundland (Head – Professor Herbert Gaskill) and AARMS (Director – Professor Hermann Brunner).

A partial financial support is provided by the National Program Committee of the Institutes (CRM, Fields and PIMS) and the President and Dean of Science of Memorial University of Newfoundland .

The list of lecturers/speakers includes

Vesselin Drensky (Institute of Mathematics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences), “Multiplicities of Schur functions in invariants of two matrices”.

Ed Formanek (Penn State University) "The ring of generic matrices".

Antonio Giambruno (University of Palermo) “Standard polynomials, Capelli polynomials and asymptotics”.

Alexander Kemer (Ulyanovsk University) "Conjecture of Procesi ".

Viktor Latyshev (Moscow State University) “Specht’s problem in positive characteristic”.

Sergei Mishchenko (Ulyanovsk University) “Almost Polynomial Growth Varieties of Linear Algebras”.

Amitai Regev (Weizmann Institute) “A_n - codimensions and cocharacters”.

Mikhail Zaicev (Moscow State University) “Numerical characteristics and extremal varieties”.

If you are interested in attending the workshop please contact any organizer using their links above or e-mail our Algebra Graduate Student Mikhail Kotchetov. You can also fill and send us your application form electronically following this link.