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FC1 007 and Online |
Algebra, Combinatorics and Number Theory

Chen, Erdős, and Staton asked in 1996 how many edges are required in an n-vertex graph to…

Speaker: António Girão
FC1 031 and online |
Algebra, Combinatorics and Number Theory

This has been an open question for more than 70 years. I'll review what is known, including some…

Speaker: Ken Brown
FC1 031 and online |
Algebra, Combinatorics and Number Theory

Quasi-hereditary algebras are a class of finite-dimensional associative algebras that appear…

Speaker: Tiago Cruz
FC1 1.09 |
Geometry and Topology

Abstract: I will review the application of Hamiltonian flows in imaginary time…

Speaker: João Luís Pimentel Nunes
FC1 007 and Online |
Algebra, Combinatorics and Number Theory

The Hasse principle is the idea that a Diophantine equation over the rational numbers should…

Speaker: Nuno Freitas
FC1 031 and online |
Algebra, Combinatorics and Number Theory

Quasigroupoids and weak Hopf quasigroups are non-associative generalizations of groupoids and…

Speaker: Ramón González Rodríguez
FC1 031 and online |
Algebra, Combinatorics and Number Theory

Polynomial expansion concerns the heuristic expectation that, for a typical polynomial P in n…

Speaker: Nuno Arala Santos

Past Seminars

Online Zoom meeting |
Research Seminar Program (UC|UP MATH PhD program)

Program of the session:

10h30-10h45 - Virtual Reception: André…

Online Zoom meeting |
Semigroups, Automata and Languages

We prove a noncommutative generalisation

Speaker: Jean-Eric Pin
Online Zoom meeting |
Semigroups, Automata and Languages

We consider two-variable first-order logic $\mathop{\mathrm{FO}}^2$

Speaker: Manfred Kufleitner
Online Zoom meeting |
Semigroups, Automata and Languages

It is a consequence of Higman's embedding theorem that the additive group $\mathbb{Q}$ of…

Speaker: Francesco Matucci
Online Zoom meeting |
Semigroups, Automata and Languages

The starting point for the ideas in this talk is that the Plactic monoid admits several…

Speaker: António Malheiro
Online Zoom meeting |
Semigroups, Automata and Languages

Since the 1980s, inverse semigroups and groupoids have been important tools to study $C^*$-…

Speaker: Gilles Gonçalves de Castro
Online Zoom meeting |
Semigroups, Automata and Languages

The problem of computing the abelian kernel of a finite semigroup was first solved by Delgado…

Speaker: Vicent Pérez Calabuig
FC1 0.31 |
Algebra, Combinatorics and Number Theory

In this series of three lectures, we will discuss two important and relatively new methods…

Speaker: António Girão
Online Zoom meeting |
Semigroups, Automata and Languages

Plactic monoids are infinite, finitely generated monoids arising from a natural combinatorial…

Speaker: Mark Kambites
FC1 0.31 |
Algebra, Combinatorics and Number Theory

In this series of three lectures, we will discuss two important and relatively new methods…

Speaker: António Girão
Online Zoom meeting |
Algebra and Geometry

Let C be a decomposable plane curve over an algebraically closed field k of characteristic 0.

Speaker: Angela Tabiri
Online Zoom meeting |
Semigroups, Automata and Languages

Automata pose a simple way to describe groups and semigroups with sometimes surprisingly complex…

Speaker: Jan Philipp Wächter
Online Zoom meeting |
Semigroups, Automata and Languages

In this talk, we consider the class of finite right restriction Ehresmann semigroups whose…

Speaker: Itamar Stein
Online Zoom meeting |
Semigroups, Automata and Languages

In our talk we will review some of the combinatorial methods in…

Speaker: Tatiana Jajcayova
Online Zoom meeting |
Semigroups, Automata and Languages

A self-similar group is a group $G$ acting on the Cayley graph of a finitely generated free…

Speaker: Benjamin Steinberg
Online Zoom meeting |
Semigroups, Automata and Languages

Free profinite semigroups are completions of free semigroups, and for that reason their elements…

Speaker: Alfredo Costa
Online Zoom meeting |
Semigroups, Automata and Languages

The ubiquitous plactic monoid, also known as the monoid of Young tableaux, has deep connections…

Speaker: Duarte Chambel Ribeiro
Online Zoom meeting |
Semigroups, Automata and Languages

The aim of this talk is to explain how model theory can be fruitfully applied to the study of…

Speaker: Samuel J. van Gool
Room FC1 030, DMat-FCUP |
Semigroups, Automata and Languages

Two groups are called commensurable if they have isomorphic subgroups of finite index.

Speaker: Zakharov Alexander
Room 1.09 |
Geometry and Topology

Hitchin's connection, originally constructed using techniques of Kähler geometry, is a flat…

Speaker: Thomas Baier