Equational Theory of Regular Languages

Brno, Czech Republic
March 5-6, 2009

Preliminary programme


Thursday, March 5

8:30 - 9:00 Registration and Coffee
9:00 - 10:00 Jean-Éric Pin Equational theories of regular languages
10:45 - 11:45 Jorge Almeida A guide to recent progress in the profinite front
12:45 Lunch
14:30 - 15:00 Alfredo Costa Two contributions from symbolic dynamics to the comprehension of Green's relations in relatively free profinite semigroups
15:30 - 16:00 José Carlos Costa A new approach to McCammond's solution of the ω-word problem for finite aperiodic semigroups
18:30 Dinner

Friday, March 6

9:00 - 10:00 Benjamin Steinberg Recent progress on the structure of free profinite monoids
11:00 - 11:45 Marc Zeitoun The Pin-Reutenauer algorithm for aperiodic semigroups
12:45 Lunch
14:30 - 15:15 Pedro Silva Noncommutative p-adic analysis
15:45 - 16:30 Thomas Colcombet The theory of stabilization monoids and regular cost functions
18:30 Dinner