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Monday morning sessions
Duality Theory (Room 0.20)
Chair: Mai Gehrke (CNRS and Université Côte d'Azur, France)
Speakers:
"Adding quantifiers via Stone duality", Marco Abbadini (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
"Duality theory of algebras of partial functions", Brett McLean (Ghent University, Belgium)
"Dualities for T0 spaces", Anna Laura Suarez (University of the Western Cape, South Africa)
Non-associative Structures (Room 0.24)
Chair: Pedro Lopes (IST & CAMSGD, University Lisbon, Portugal)
Speakers:
"Quandle colorings of tangles", António Salgueiro (University of Coimbra, Portugal)
"Biracks and LF-(left) quasigroups", Anna Zamojska-Dzienio (Warsaw University of Technology, Poland)
"The category of weak Hopf quasigroups.", Ramón González Rodríguez (CITMAga and Universidade de Vigo, Spain)
Cryptographic Functions (Room 0.31)
Chair: Lilya Budaghyan (University of Bergen, Norway)
Speakers:
"A notion on S-boxes for a partial resistance to some integral attacks", Claude Carlet (Universities of Bergen, Norway and Paris 8, France)
"Secondary Constructions for Cryptographically Optimal Functions", Nadiia Ichanska (University of Bergen, Norway)
"On k-to-1 functions", Nikolay Kaleyski (University of Bergen, Norway)
Monday afternoon sessions
Permutation groups and transformation semigroups (Room 0.20)
Chair: André Carvalho (University of Évora, Portugal) and João Araújo (NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal)
Speakers:
"Some Results on the base size of permutation groups", Pablo Spiga (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy)
"Towards inductive proofs in algebraic graph theory with applications", Ted Dobson (University of Primorska, Slovenia)
"Above and below primiticity", Peter J Cameron (University of St. Andrews, UK)
Combinatorics on Words (Room 0.24)
Chair: Marianne Johnson (University of Manchester, UK)
Speakers:
"Generalizing the hypoplactic monoid via quasi-crystals: contrasting words and Littelmann paths", Ricardo Guilherme (University Aberta, Portugal)
"From Row Presentations to Coherence for the Stylic Monoid", Nohra Hage (Université Catholique de Lille, France)
"Extended Green's relations for the stylic monoid.", Thomas Aird (University of Manchester, UK)
Algebraic and combinatorial methods for CSPs (Room 0.31)
Chair: Catarina Carvalho (University of Hertfordshire, UK)
Speakers:
"Introduction to the QCSP", Barnaby Martin (Durham University, UK)
"QCSP on Tadpoles", Kristina Asimi (Durham University, UK)
"Majority Functions and Cacti Graphs", Mathison Knight (University of Hertfordshire, UK)
Tuesday afternoon sessions
Algebraic Machine Learning (Room 0.20)
Chair: Ana Catarina Monteiro (NOVA University Lisbon) and Fernando Martin-Maroto (Champalimaud Foundation, Portugal)
Speakers:
"New research directions in Algebraic Machine Learning and open discussion", Marcel Jackson (La Trobe University, Australia)
"Atomized Semilattices and congruences", Antonio Ricciardo (Algebraic AI, Spain)
"Introduction to Algebraic Machine Learning", Fernando Martin-Maroto (Champalimaud Foundation, Portugal)
Synchronization (Room 0.24)
Chair: Emanuele Rodaro (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) and João Araújo (Nova University Lisbon)
Speakers:
"Synchronizing groups", Peter J Cameron (University of St. Andrews, UK)
"Careful synchronisation and primitive sets of nonnegative matrices", Antoni Wiśniewski (University of Warsaw, Poland)
"Totally Synchronizing k-Out Graphs: Symmetry, Quotients, and Complexity", Emanuele Rodaro (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Interaction between algebra and operator theory: partial actions, quaternionic operators (Room 0.31)
Chair: Mikhailo Dokuchaev (University of São Paulo, Brazil)
Speakers:
"A brisk walk in partial representation theory", Paolo Saracco (University of Torino, Italy)
"Homology of epsilon-strongly graded algebras", Emmanuel Jerez (Guangdong Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, China)
"On the relation between two notions of spectrum in quaternionic Hilbert spaces", Cristina Diogo (ISCTE, Portugal)
Wednesday afternoon sessions
Free algebras, their automorphisms, derivations and subalgebras (Room 0.20)
Chair: Ivan Shestakov (University of São Paulo, Brazil) and Mikhail Volkov (no affiliation, Guest Honoree)
Speakers:
"Differential identities of matrix algebras", Jose Ramon Brox Lopez (University of Valladolid, Spain)
"Compatible Lie algebras and their representations", Samuel Lopes (University of Porto, Portugal)
"The Tangent Lie Algebras of Automorphism Groups of Free Algebras", Ivan Shestakov (University of São Paulo, Brazil)
Semigroups, Automata and Languages (Room 0.24)
Chair: Ana Moura (ISEP&CMUP, Portugal)
Speakers:
"Free profinite monoids, S-adic representations, and relative invertibility", Herman Goulet-Ouellet (Université de Moncton, Canada)
"A topological approach to maximal bifix decoding", Alfredo Costa (University of Coimbra, Portugal)
"Numerical Semigroups and Formal Languages", Manuel Delgado (University of Porto, Portugal)
Thompson's Groups and Languages (Room 0.31)
Chair: Carl-Fredrik Nyberg Brodda (KIAS, South Korea)
Speakers:
"Finite presentations of Thompson's monoids", Alex Levine (University of East Anglia, UK)
"Thompson groups meet partition monoids.", Luna Elliott (University of Manchester, UK)
"A language-theoretic characterisation of subgroups of Thompson's group V", Corentin Bodart (University of Oxford, UK)
Thursday morning sessions
Ehresmann semigroups (Room 0.20)
Chair: Victoria Gould (University of York, UK)
Speakers:
"The Identities of the free (left) Ehresmann monoid", Thomas Aird (University of Manchester, UK)
"Free Ehresmann monoids and coherency", Marianne Johnson (University of Manchester, UK)
"The free F-restriction semigroups", Ajda Lemut Furlani (IMFM Ljubljana and University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)
Hyperbolic geometry and 3-manifold groups (Room 0.24)
Chair: Corentin Bodart (University of Oxford, UK)
Speakers:
"Hyperbolic surfaces and 3-manifolds", David Xu (KIAS, South Korea)
"Profinite rigidity and the second homology group", Carl-Fredrik Nyberg Brodda (KIAS, South Korea)
"Möbius transformations in higher dimensions", David Xu (KIAS, South Korea)
Artificial Intelligence and Theorem Proving (Room 0.31)
Chair: Mikolas Janota (Czech Technical University, Czceh Republic)
Speakers:
"Automated Reasoning for Proving Non-Orderability of Groups and Quandles", Alexei Lisitsa (University of Liverpool, UK)
"Understandable Autoformalization", Atle Hahn (AI4REASON, Czech Republic)
"Connecting the Past, Present, and the Future in AI for Math", Jan Hula (Czech Technical University, Czech Republic)
Thursday afternoon sessions
Graphs and Algebras (Room 0.20)
Chair: Ted Dobson (University of Primorska, Slovenia)
Speakers:
"Graphs on groups and algebras", Peter J Cameron (University of St. Andrews, UK)
"Exploring the graphs associated with groups", Samir Zahirovic (University of Novi Sad, Serbia)
Tânia Paulista (Center of Mathematics University of Porto, Portugal)
Numerical Semigroups (Room 0.24)
Chair: Manuel Branco (University of Evora, Portugal)
Speakers:
"On two questions on numerical semigroups posed by Herbert S. Wilf", Manuel Delgado (University of Porto, Portugal)
"Partial Results Toward Wilf’s Conjecture", Neeraj Kumar (CMUP, Portugal)
"The covariety of Bracelet numerical semigroups", Ilvécio Ramos (University of Evora, Portugal)
"A stroll in the meadows", João Dias (University of Evora, Portugal)
Symmetry, Definability and Decidability (Room 0.31)
Chair: Conceição Nogueira (Polytechnic University of Leiria, CMAT, Portugal)
Speakers:
"The finite basis problem revisited", Marcel Jackson (La Trobe University, Australia)
"Elementary definability of algebraic linear groups over rings", Elena Bunina (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)
"Poset block structures and generalized wreath products", Rosemary Bailey (St Andrews University, UK)