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Ehresmann semigroups
Chair: Victoria Gould (University of York, UK)
Speakers:
Thomas Aird (University of Manchester, UK)
Ajda Lemut Furlani (IMFM Ljubljana and University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)
Marianne Johnson (University of Manchester, UK)
Hyperbolic geometry and 3-manifold groups
Chair: Corentin Bodart (University of Oxford, UK)
Speakers:
David Xu (KIAS, South Korea)
Carl-Fredrik Nyberg Brodda (KIAS, South Korea)
Algebraic Machine Learning
Chair: Ana Catarina Monteiro (NOVA University Lisbon) and Fernando Martin-Maroto (Champalimaud Foundation, Portugal)
Speakers:
Marcel Jackson (La Trobe University, Australia)
Antonio Ricciardo (Algebraic AI, Spain)
Fernando Martin-Maroto (Champalimaud Foundation, Portugal)
Cryptographic Functions
Chair: Lilya Budaghyan (University of Bergen, Norway)
Speakers:
Claude Carlet (Universities of Bergen, Norway and Paris 8, France)
Nikolay Kaleyski (University of Bergen, Norway)
Nadiia Ichanska (University of Bergen, Norway)
Synchronization
Chair: Emanuele Rodaro (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) and João Araújo (Nova University Lisbon)
Speakers:
Peter J Cameron (University of St. Andrews, UK)
Antoni Wiśniewski (University of Warsaw, Poland)
Emanuele Rodaro (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Algebraic and combinatorial methods for CSPs
Chair: Catarina Carvalho (University of Hertfordshire, UK)
Speakers:
Mathison Knight (University of Hertfordshire, UK)
Barnaby Martin (Durham University, UK)
Kristina Asimi (Durham University, UK)
Graphs and Algebras
Chair: Ted Dobson (University of Primorska, Slovenia)
Speakers:
Peter J Cameron (University of St. Andrews, UK)
Samir Zahirovic (University of Novi Sad, Serbia)
Tânia Paulista (University of Porto, Portugal)
Permutation groups and transformation semigroups
Chair: André Carvalho (University of Évora, Portugal) and João Araújo (NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal)
Speakers:
Peter J Cameron (University of St. Andrews, UK)
Pablo Spiga (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy)
Ted Dobson (University of Primorska, Slovenia)
Artificial Intelligence and Theorem Proving
Chair: Mikolas Janota (Czech Technical University, Czceh Republic)
Speakers:
Alexei Lisitsa (University of Liverpool, UK)
Atle Hahn (AI4REASON, Czech Republic)
Jan Hula (Czech Technical University, Czceh Republic)
Duality Theory
Chair: Mai Gehrke (CNRS and Université Côte d'Azur, France)
Speakers:
Marco Abbadini (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
Brett McLean (Ghent University, Belgium)
Anna Laura Suarez (University of the Western Cape, South Africa)
Numerical Semigroups
Chair: Manuel Branco (University of Evora, Portugal)
Speakers:
Manuel Delgado (University of Porto, Portugal)
Neeraj Kumar (CMUP, Portugal)
João Dias (University of Evora, Portugal)
Ilvécio Ramos (University of Evora, Portugal)
Free algebras, their automorphisms, derivations and subalgebras
Chair: Ivan Shestakov (University of São Paulo, Brazil) and Mikhail Volkov (no affiliation, Guest Honoree)
Speakers:
Jose Ramon Brox Lopez (University of Valladolid, Spain)
Samuel Lopes (University of Porto, Poetugal)
Ivan Shestakov (University of São Paulo, Brazil)
Combinatorics on Words
Chair: Marianne Johnson (University of Manchester, UK)
Speakers:
Nohra Hage (Université Catholique de Lille, France)
Ricardo Guilherme (University Aberta, Portugal)
Thomas Aird (University of Manchester, UK)
Interaction between algebra and operator theory: partial actions, quaternionic operators
Chair: Mikhailo Dokuchaev (University of São Paulo, Brazil)
Speakers:
Paolo Saracco (University of Torino, Italy)
Emmanuel Jerez (Guangdong Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, China)
Cristina Diogo (ISCTE, Portugal)
Semigroups, Automata and Languages
Chair: Ana Moura (ISEP&CMUP, Portugal)
Speakers:
Alfredo Costa (University of Coimbra, Portugal)
Manuel Delgado (University of Porto, Portugal)
Herman Goulet-Ouellet (Université de Moncton, Canada)
Thompson's Groups and Languages
Chair: Carl-Fredrik Nyberg Brodda (KIAS, South Korea)
Speakers:
Corentin Bodart (University of Oxford, UK)
Luna Elliott (University of Manchester, UK)
Alex Levine (University of East Anglia, UK)
Non-associative Structures
Chair: Pedro Lopes (IST & CAMSGD, University Lisbon)
Speakers: