GROUPS AND LANGUAGES

International workshop
GROUPS AND LANGUAGES
dedicated to Toni Machì on his 70th birthday

Università di Roma "La Sapienza"
Rome, 9-10 September 2010

Toni at his home place in Rome, March 2010

INVITED SPEAKERS and their TALKS

Robert Cori: Maps and permutations in Toni Machì's life
Aldo de Luca: A palindromization map in free monoids
Francesca Fiorenzi: Decision problems concerning cellular automata
Robert Griess Jr: Moonshine paths between the extended E_8-diagram and the Monster
Rostislav I. Grigorchuk: Torsion images of Coxeter groups and a question of Wiegold
Pierre de la Harpe: About Dehn 1910 paper on decision problems and all that ARTICLE 1, ARTICLE 2, ARTICLE 3
Gareth A. Jones: Hypermaps, Groups and Dessins d'Enfants
János Körner: Extremal diversity
Dominique Perrin: Groups of codes with empty kernel
Antonio Restivo: Words and permutations
Paul Schupp: Geometric group theory, generic computability, Turing degrees and asymptotic density
Annick Valibouze: Galoiseries
Wolfgang Woess: Context free pairs of groups, context-free graphs, and random walk asymptotics

The programme is now available.

REGISTRATION

The deadline for the registration was September 3rd 2010:

List of registered participants

VENUE

Aula INdAM, Istituto Matematico "Guido Castelnuovo", within the campus of the Università di Roma "La Sapienza" - Piazzale Aldo Moro, 5 - Rome, Italy.

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ACCOMMODATION

If you need a nearby hotel, we suggest you the GLOBUS HOTEL.

SOCIAL EVENT

There will be a social dinner on Thursday September 9 at 8:00pm at the Sardinian restaurant "Ristorante Eleonora D'Arborea", Corso Trieste 23, (tel 06-44250943). They will offer a choice of seafood, meat or vegetarian menu. The cost of the dinner is 45eu. Too late to register, sorry!

List of registered participants to the social dinner

PAPERS

A special issue of the European Journal of Combinatorics will be dedicated to "Groups, graphs and languages". People are invited to submit original articles closely related to this theme: these will be regularly refereed and will follow the normal publication process of the journal. Please submit your article to the email contact given below with subject: Paper for EJC.

CONTACTS

EMAIL: groupslanguages ( AT ) mat.uniroma1.it

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Andrea Caranti, Tullio Ceccherini-Silberstein, Flavio D'Alessandro, Dina Ghinelli, Claudia Malvenuto, Fabio Scarabotti, Carlo Maria Scoppola, Elisabetta Strickland and Filippo Tolli.