Universal Algebra and Logic - Lectures and Conference Presentations

2008

"Lattice-ordered groups in logic"
Location: Logic, Algebra and Truth Degrees, Siena, Italy, September 8-11, 2008.
Plenary Speaker: Constantine Tsinakis

"Ordered groups in logic"
Location: International conference BLAST, University of Denver, Denver, Colorado, August 6-10, 2008.
Plenary Speaker: Constantine Tsinakis

"Proof Theory for Fuzzy Logics."
Location: LSIS, Paul Cezanne University, Marseille, June 2008.
Speaker: George Metcalfe

"The Conrad program in order algebra"
Location: Conference on the Conrad Legacy, held at the University of Florida, May 5-8, 2008.
Plenary Speaker: Constantine Tsinakis

"Density Elimination."
Location: London Logic Forum, May 2008.
Speaker: George Metcalfe

"Algebraic approach to constraint satisfaction problems"
Location: 2008 Mini-conference in algebra and algorithms at Sam Houston State University, April 18, 2008
Speaker: Ralph McKenzie

"Amalgamation and interpolation in order algebra,"
Location:  Residuated Structures: Algebra and Logic, Buenos Aires, Argentina, April 16-19, 2008.
Plenary Speaker: Constantine Tsinakis and George Metcalfe

"The algebraic perspective"
Location: Workshop on the Algebraic Approach to Constraint Satisfaction Problems at AIM, March 31 - April 4
Speaker: Ralph McKenzie

"Admissible Rules and Proof Theory."
Location: Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool, February 2008.
Speaker: George Metcalfe


2007

"An overview of general algebra."
Location: University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, September 24, 2007.
Colloquium Speaker: Constantine Tsinakis

"Residuated structures: their algebra and logic."
Location: Annual Meeting of Argentinean Mathematical Union, Cordoba, Argentina, September 17-22, 2007.
Plenary Speaker: Constantine Tsinakis

"Substructural Fuzzy Logics."
Location: Logic Colloquium Special Session on Proof Complexity and Non-Classical Logics, Wroclaw, Poland, July 2007.
Speaker: George Metcalfe

"Algebraic methods in logic."
Location: 6th Panhellenic Logic Symposium, University of Thessaly, Greece, July 5-8, 2007.
Plenary Speaker: Constantine Tsinakis

"Welcome and brief historical remarks"
Location: Shanks workshop conference on The Algebraic Approach to Constraint Satisfaction Problems, Vanderbilt, June 2007.
Speaker: Ralph McKenzie

"Reasoning with Rules."
Location: Invited lecture at Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Ishikawa, Japan, March 2007. 
Speaker: George Metcalfe

"Density and Ordered Algebraic Structures."
Location: AMS Special Session on Universal Algebra and Order, New Orleans, January 2007.
Speaker: George Metcalfe

"Weakly symmetric operations on finite algebras"
Location: American Mathematical Society, winter meeting in New Orleans, January 2007.
Speaker: Ralph McKenzie

2006

"Sparse relational clones and weakly symmetric operations"
Location: Mathematics Colloquium at University of Colorado, October 2006.
Speaker: Ralph McKenzie

"Proof Systems for Admissibility."
Location: International Workshop on Modal Logics, Istanbul, June 2006.
Speaker: George Metcalfe

"Skolemization by Approximation."
Location: Second Paris-Vienna Workshop on Proof Theory, Paris, June 2006.
Speaker: George Metcalfe

"Algebras with few subpowers"
Location: Grätzer-Schmidt Conference, Erdös Center, Budapest, June 2006.
Speaker: Ralph McKenzie

"An introduction to residuated structures."
Location: International Symposium on Ordered Structures in Many-Valued Logic, Massa Lubrense, Italy, May 29-June 1, 2006.
Tutorial Instructor: Constantine Tsinakis

"Lattice-ordered groups, many valued logics and substructural logics."
Location: The Frames and Spaces of Ordered Algebraic Structures, held at the University of Florida, March 9-11, 2006.
Invited Speaker: Constanine Tsinakis

"How to make your algebras dense."
Location: Vanderbilt University Mathematics Colloquium, Nashville, January 2006.
Speaker: George Metcalfe

"Proof Systems for Admissibility."
Location: Workshop on Proof Theory and Complexity, Prague, January 2006.
Speaker: George Metcalfe

"The approach to constraint satisfaction problems through universal algebra"
Location: American Mathematical Society, winter meeting in San Antonio, January 2006.
Speaker: Ral

2005

"The algebra and logic of residuated algebras: a unified approach"
Location: Florence-Vienna Workshop in Logic and Computation, University of Florence, Italy, November 2-5, 2005.
Speaker: Constantine Tsinakis

"Operations on structures"
Location: 2005 Midsummer Combinatorial Workshop Conference, Centre for Discrete Mathematics, Theoretical Computer Science and Applications (DIMATIA), Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, July 25-29, 2005
Plenary Speaker: Ralph McKenzie

"Operations on finite structures"
Location: Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland, July 22, 2005
Seminar Speaker: Ralph McKenzie
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"Finite axiomatizability of finitely generated quasivarieties whose relative congruence lattices are meet semi-distributive" and "Existence of a meet semi-distributive algebraic lattice of cardinality continuum that has no meet-prime element" (2 plenary talks)
Location: Novi Sad Algebraic Conference, Novi Sad, Serbia, July 11-15, 2005
Plenary Speaker: Ralph McKenzie
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"Finite basis problems for quasivarieties, and the weak extension property"
Location: Conference on Universal Algebra and Lattice Theory, Szeged, Hungary, July 4-8, 2005
Conference Speaker: Ralph McKenzie

“Consequence Relations: An Order-Theoretic and Categorical Perspective”
Location: Conference on Algebraic and Topological Methods in Non-Classical Logics II, Barcelona, Spain, June 15-18, 2005. 
Speaker: Constantine Tsinakis

“Logical consequence Relations” - Colloquium
Location: University of Athens, Greece, June 3, 2005.
Speaker:  Constantine Tsinakis

“A Holland-type embedding theorem for distributive residuated lattices” - Logic seminar talk
Location: University of Siena, Italy, May 25, 2005. 
Speaker:  Constantine Tsinakis

“An abstract approach to consequence relation” - Colloquium
Location: University of Florence, Italy, May 18, 2005. 
Speaker:  Constantine Tsinakis

"A general approach to the study of consequence relations" - Colloquium
Location: University of Salerno, Italy, May 6, 2005. 
Speaker:  Constantine Tsinakis

"Consequence relations”" - 3 seminar talks
Location: University of Siena, Italy, May 4, 11, 13, 2005.
Speaker:  Constantine Tsinakis

"Quasivarieties with the weak extension property" and "Tarski's equational basis problem"
Location: The University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez, March 8 and March 10, 2005
Seminar Lecturer: Ralph McKenzie


2004

“Minimal Varieties of Involutive Residuated Lattices” - Special Session invited talk
Location: Regional Meeting of the American Mathematical Society,
Special Session in Universal Algebra and Lattice Theory, Vanderbilt University, October 2004.
Speaker: Constantine Tsinakis

AMS 2004 Fall Southeastern Section Meeting
Location: Nashville, USA, October 16–17, 2004.
Speakers: Constantine Tsinakis, Ralph McKenzie, Miklos Maroti, Nick Galatos
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"Finite decidability and generative complexity in equational classes"
Location: Walter Taylor Conference, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, August 15-18, 2004
Plenary Speaker: Ralph McKenzie

"Finite decidability and generative complexity in equational classes"
Location: Logic Colloquium 2004 (summer European meeting of the Association for Symbolic Logic), Turin, Italy, July 25-31, 2004
Contributing Speaker: Ralph McKenzie

"An Overview of Universal Algebra and Algebraic Logic" - Colloquium
Location: University of Cyprus, June 9, 2004.
Speaker: Constantine Tsinakis

"Residuated Lattices: an Algebraic Perpective"
Location: Conference on Residuated Structures and Multi-valued Logic, University of Patras, Greece, June 2 - 5, 2004.
Speaker: Constantine Tsinakis
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Ord04: Conference on Ordered Algebraic Structures
Location: Gainesville, FL, USA, March 3 - 6, 2004
Conference Speakers: Eric Zenk. 
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"Involutive Residuated Lattices" - Colloquium
Location: Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, February 19, 2004. 
Speaker: Constantine Tsinakis


2003

"Finite basis problems and results for quasivarieties" - Special Session, invited hour talk
Location: Winter Meeting of the Canadian Mathematical Society, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, December 5-7, 2003
Conference Speaker: Ralph McKenzie.
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"Finite basis problems and results for quasivarieties" - Special Session, invited hour talk
Location: AMS Meeting, Boulder, CO, October 2-4, 2003
Conference Speaker: Ralph McKenzie

"Congruence modular varieties: commutator theory and its uses" (five hours of lectures)
Location: NATO Advanced Study Institute, University of Montreal, Canada, July 8-18, 2003
Plenary Speaker: Ralph McKenzie

"Semi-direct Products of Residuated Lattices" - Special Session invited talk
Location: Annual Meeting of the Association for Symbolic Logic, Special Session on Algebraic Logic and Universal Algebra
University of Illinois at Chicago, June 1-4, 2003. 
Speaker: Constantine Tsinakis
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"The interplay between structural insight and algorithmic problems in general algebra"
Location: Annual Meeting of the Association for Symbolic Logic, University of Illinois at Chicago, June 1 - 4. 2003.
Plenary Speaker: Ralph McKenzie.
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"Algebras, lattices, and arithmetic classes: from Boole to Tarski, and beyond"
Location: The 2003 Alfred Tarski Lectures, University of California at Berkeley, March 31, April 2, and April  4
Lecturer: Ralph McKenzie
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"The structure of finite algebras"
Location: The University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez, March 2, March 6, 2003
Seminar Lecturer: Ralph McKenzie


2002

"Generalized MV-algebras" - invited talk
Location: Workshop on Algebra and Substructural Logics, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, November 12 - 14, 2002.
Speaker: Constantine Tsinakis

Workshop on Algebra and Substructural Logics
Location: Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, November 12 -14, 2002.
Conference Speakers: Constantine Tsinakis
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Conference on Universal Algebra and Lattice Theory
Location: Szeged, Hungary, July 22–26, 2002
Conference Speakers: Miklos Maroti
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"Tarski's finite basis problem"
Location: University of Siena, Italy, June 20, 2002
Seminar Speaker: Ralph McKenzie

AMS-UMI First Joint International Meeting
Location: Pisa, Italy, June 12 - 16, 2002
Contributing Speaker: Ralph McKenzie.
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Conference in honor of Jan Mycielski
Location: University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA, June 1 - 3, 2002
Plenary Speaker: Ralph McKenzie.
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International Conference on Modern Algebra
Location: Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, May
Plenary Speaker: Ralph McKenzie

Conference on Ordered Algebraic Structures
Location: Vanderbilt University, March 7 - 9, 2002.
Conference Speakers: Constantine Tsinakis
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