[Turkmath:6683] Oleg's Birthday

[Oya Cesur Demir]

CONFERENCE IN HONOUR OF OLEG BELEGRADEK'S 60-TH BIRTHDAY

                               5 DECEMBER 2009


Dear Colleagues,

The conference in honour of the 60th birthday of Professor Oleg Belegradek will be held in Istanbul Bilgi University on 5 Dec 2009. 

Invited speakers are:

Wilfrid Hodges (Queen Mary College, London)
Boris Zilber (Oxford University, Oxford)
Mahmut Kuzucuoglu (Middle-East Technical University, Ankara)
Vladimir Tolstykh (Yeditepe University, Istanbul)
David Pierce (Middle-East Technical University, Ankara)
Sonat Süer (Bilgi University, Istanbul)

Organizers: Ali Nesin, Boris Zilber, Vladimir Tolstykh, Çigdem Akan, Esra Sengelen

Date: 5 December 2009, 9:00-17:00

Venue: Conference Hall (BS1), Istanbul Bilgi University, Dolapdere Campus, Kurtulus Deresi Cad 47, Dolapdere Beyoglu Istanbul

The schedule of the talks:

9:00 - 9:50 Wilfrid Hodges, Oleg Belegradek and various groups and relations.
10:00 - 10:50 Boris Zilber, Model theory and physics.
10:50 - 11:10 Coffee break.
11:10 - 12:00 Mahmut Kuzucuoglu, Centralizers of abelian unipotent subgroups in simple locally finite groups.
12:10 - 13:00 Vladimir Tolstykh, Algebraic criteria for group-theoretic algorithmic problems in works by Oleg Belegradek.
13:00 - 15:00 Lunch break
15:00 - 15:50 David Pierce,  Interacting rings.
15:50 - 16:10 Coffee break.
16:10 - 17:00 Sonat Süer, Differential Galois theory and differential schemes.
18:00   Cocktail party

We hope to see you at the conference.

Kind regards,
Organizers