Program

You can download the book of abstracts here Vavilov_Memorial_book.pdf

The PDF file with the program is vavilov-memorial.conf-pdmi.ru_2024_program.pdf

September 17

N. A. Vavilov Anniversary .
09:00 — 09:30 Registration
09:30 — 09:45 Opening
09:45 — 11:20 Ivan Panin (Steklov Math Institute at Spb)
On the Grothendieck--Serre conjecture
slides video abstract
11:20 — 11:50 Coffee break
11:50 — 12:50 Alexei Semenov (Moscow State University)
N. Vavilov and Digital Foundations of Mathematics and Mathematical Education
video abstract
12:50 — 14:30 Lunch
14:30 — 16:05 Agatha Atkarskaya (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Groebner-Shirshov bases, Dehn's algorithm and small cancellation rings
slides video abstract
16:05 — 16:35 Coffee break
16:35 — 18:10 Alexei Miasnikov (Stevens Institute of Technology)
“Algebraic groups: abstract isomorphisms, Diophantine problems, and model theory”
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18:15 — 19:05 Victor Petrov (Saint Petersburg State University;)
Symmetric spaces and cohomology of algebraic groups
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19:10 — 21:30 Welcome party and Memories

September 18

09:00 — 09:50 Anatoly Kondratiev (N.N. Krasovskii Institute of Mathematics and Mechanics)
Finite groups without elements of order 2p for an odd prime p
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10:00 — 11:35 Ivan Arzhantsev (Faculty of Computer Science, HSE University)
Linear Algebraic Groups vs Automorphism Groups
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11:35 — 12:05 Coffee break
12:05 — 13:05 Alex Lubotzky (Weizmann Institute )
Uniform stability of high-rank Arithmetic groups
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13:05 — 14:30 Lunch
14:30 — 15:30 Meeting with Era Korobova. (The State Hermitage Museum)
15:30 — 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 — 17:35 Nikolai Gordeev (Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia)
Some problems around $SL_2(C)$
video abstract
17:40 — 19:15 Andrei Rapinchuk (University of Virginia)
Division algebras and algebraic groups: structure and cohomology
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September 19

09:00 — 09:50 Alexei Stepanov (St.Petersburg State University)
Sandwich classification theorem by generic element method
video abstract
10:00 — 11:00 Sergei Lando (National Research University Higher School of Economics )
Algebras of permutations
slides abstract
11:00 — 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 — 13:05 Dmitry Grigoryev (CNRS)
Tropical vs. classical algebra
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13:05 — 14:30 Lunch
14:30 — 16:05 Alexandre Borovik (University of Manchester)
Ideas for a radical reform of mathematics education, après Arnold, Gelfand, and Vavilov
slides abstract
16:05 — 16:30 Coffee break
16:30 — 17:00 Alexey Kanel-Belov (Bar-Ilan University)
Matrix evaluations of non-commutative polynomials
slides video abstract
17:00 — 18:35 Igor Frenkel (Yale University)
Basic representations of affine Lie algebras and theory of Chevalley groups.
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18:40 — 21:00 Closing. Memories of Nikolai Vavilov

1952 — 2023