International Conference on

Semigroups and Languages

In Honour of the 65 th birthday of

Donald B. McAlister

July 12, 13, 14 and 15, 2005

CENTRO DE ÁLGEBRA DA UNIVERSIDADE DE LISBOA

Lisboa

PORTUGAL

Proceedings

Papers for the proceedings will be accepted until November 15, 2005. Please send the PDF file and the Latex file to the email procsl05@cii.fc.ul.pt .

The work presented in these papers should be about the talks given at the Conference or about work related to Prof. McAlister’s research. All papers will be refereed.

The proceedings will be published by World Scientific, so the papers must be prepared according to WS rules. Please use the WS format, that is the standard size 9" by 6". Those rules can be viewed at http://www.worldscientific.com/style/proceedings_style.shtml .

The length of the papers should be at most 15 pages.

Organizing committee

	Jorge M. André (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, CAUL)
	Mário Branco (Universidade de Lisboa, CAUL)
	Vitor Hugo Fernandes (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, CAUL)
	John Fountain (University of York )
	Gracinda M. S. Gomes (Universidade de Lisboa, CAUL)
	John Meakin (University of Nebraska)

Confirmed invited lecturers

	J. Almeida (Universidade do Porto)
	R. Gilman (Stevens Institute of Technology )
	M. Lawson (Heriot-Watt University)
	S. Margolis (Bar-Ilan University)
	D. McAlister (Northern Illinois University)
	D. Munn (University of Glasgow)
	F. Otto (University of Kassel)
	J.-E. Pin (Université Paris 7)
	P. Silva (Universidade do Porto)
	B. Steinberg (Carleton University)
	M. Szendrei (University of Szeged)
	D. Thérien (McGill University)
	M. Volkov (Ural State University)
	P. Weil (Université de Bordeaux I )

Timetable

Registration

Monday, July 11, Room B1-01, 16h00-18h00

Tuesday, July 12, Room B1-01, 8h00-9h00

	Tuesday			Wednesday		Thursday		Friday
	Amphi theatre	Room B2-01		Amphi theatre	Room B2-01	Amphi theatre	Room B2-01	Amphi theatre	Room B2-01
9h00 9h30	Openning Session		8h30 9h20	J.- E. Pin		M. Volkov		R.Gilman
9h30 10h20	D. Munn		9h30 10h20	B. Steinberg		J. Almeida		F. Otto
10h30 11h00	Coffee break		10h30 11h00	Coffee break		Coffee break		Coffee break
11h00 11h50	M. Szendrei		11h00 11h50	D. Thérien		P. Weil		P. Silva
12h00 14h00	Lunch break		12h00 14h00	Lunch break		Lunch break		Lunch break
14h00 14h20	S. Pride	A. Mintz	14h00 14h20	A. Egri-Nagy	P. Garcia-Sanchez	J. Kadourek	M. A. Moreno	M. Kambites	L. Oliveira
14h30 14h50	A. Malheiro	S. Gonçalves	14h30 14h50	S. Afonin	C. Carvalho	M. Delgado	V. Laan	R. Thomas	B.. Tanana (Canceled)
15h00 15h20	A. Juhasz	M. Messias	15h00 15h20	Nick Gilbert	P. Gallagher	J. Costa	P. Anh	D. McAlister
15h30 15h50	I. Goldberg	B. Billhardt	15h30 15h50	A. Yamamura	R. Gray	L. .Polak	P. Moravec (Canceled)
16h00 16h20	Coffee break		16h00 16h20	J. Renshaw	N. Silva	T. Petkovic	M. Hoffman
16h30 17h00	M. Lawson		16h30 17h00
17h00 17h20			17h00 17h20					17h00: Meeting point (Departure to Palmela by bus)
			17h30 17h50
			19h30					19:30: Dinner (Restaurant at Pousada de Palmela)

* The speakers may use the Data Show system. In order to use it, they should bring the files in a Pen Disk or in a data CD/DVD. They can also use one slide projector or the blackboard.

Confirmed sponsors

Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

Centro de Álgebra da Universidade de Lisboa.

Centro Internacional de Matemática (CIM)

FCUL

FLAD

26.07.2005 updated by Jorge M. André.