NBSAN is a new network of researchers in Scotland and Northern England with interests in semigroup theory and its applications. It is funded by a Scheme 3 grant from the London Mathematical Society, and will organise about 3 meetings per year in different locations around the region. The main participant universities are Heriot-Watt, Manchester, St Andrews and York, but our activities are open to all interested researchers. We especially welcome participation by graduate students.
The first meeting, which was dedicated to the memory of Douglas Munn (1929-2008), was held in York on Wednesday 28th January 2009. The s York on Wednesday 28th January 2009. We will be in room V/123 (Vanbrugh College) for the first two talks and in room P/T/006 (Physics and Electronics Building) from the first coffee break onwards; see the practical information on travelling to the University and the map of the Heslington Campus. The provisional schedule is as follows:
| 11:45 | Roger Kirk Centre | Early arrivers meet for informal lunch |
| 12:20 | Room V/123 | Welcome |
| 12:30 | Room V/123 | John Fountain (York, expository talk) - The Mathematical Work of Douglas Munn and its Influence |
| 13:30 | Room V/123 | Nik Ruskuc (St Andrews, open problem talk) - One Relation Semigroups |
| 14:00 | Room P/T/006 | Coffee, Tea and Solving The Open Problem |
| 14:30 | Room P/T/006 | Rebecca Noonan Heale (Heriot-Watt) - Green's Relations for Semigroup Graph Expansions |
| 15:00 | Room P/T/006 | Yann H. Peresse (St Andrews) - Generating Transformation Semigroups using Endomorphisms of Preorders, Graphs and Similarity Relations |
| 15:30 | Room P/T/006 | Pedro V. Silva (Porto) - The Generalized Conjugacy Problem for Virtually Free Groups |
| 16:00 | Room P/T/006 | Coffee, Tea and Solving Other Open Problems |
| 16:30 | Room P/T/006 | Jorge Almeida (Porto) - The Mysteries of Free Profinite Semigroups: a Sneak Preview |
| 17:30 | Close | |
| 18:00 | Somewhere Near the Station | Dinner |
For more information about the York meeting, contact the organisers Victoria Gould and Mark Kambites.
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