Keynote Speakers
Invited Speakers
And there are still slots available for contributed talks!
Aim of the Conference
A conference about "Groups, Rings and the Yang-Baxter equation" will be held at Domain Sol Cress in the beautiful town of Spa, Belgium. The international conference focusses on recent developments in the areas of ring theory, group theory and the new structure, called braces, that recently has attracted a lot of attention because of its role in a description of set-theoretic solutions of the Yang-Baxter equation. Special emphasis is given on the relations between these areas and in particular on topics where a mixture of methods (involving these theories) has been used. Some topics of particular interest are: group rings, unit groups, (graded) rings and also various algebraic structures used in the context of the Yang-Baxter Equation.
There will be the opportunity for presenting a contributed talk (15 minutes) for interested participants. Please indicate during registration whether you would like to give such a talk and in that case please send us an abstract of your talk before April 18th, 2017. We will inform all interested participants by May 1whether we can schedule their proposed talk. There also will be a poster session to which participants can contribute.
The talks will begin early Monday morning, June 19th, and the last talk will be presented late afternoon on Friday, June 23th. Arrival is expected on June 18th and departure on June 24th.
If you have any questions please do not hesitate and write to us: Doryan.Temmerman@gmail.com
- A poster is available here.
- The registration is open now.
- There are rumors of a pool tournament and a ping-pong tournament.
- Did you know that the English word "spa" derives its name from the town of Spa?
- Definitions of spa (Noun):
- A mineral spring considered to have health-giving properties.
- A place or resort with a mineral spring.
- A commercial establishment offering health and beauty treatment through such means as steam baths, exercise equipment, and massage.
- Eli Aljadeff (Technion Institute of Technology, Israel)
- Andreas Bächle (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
- Jason Bell (University of Waterloo, Canada)
- Nigel Byott (University of Exeter, UK)
- Mauricio Caicedo (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
- Stefan Catoiu (DePaul University, USA)
- Francesco Catino (Universita del Salento, Italy)
- Ferran Cedó (Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain)
- Fabienne Chouraqui (University of Haifa, Israel)
- Patrick Dehornoy (University of Caen, France)
- Eugenio Giannelli (University of Cambridge, UK)
- Tatiana Gateva-Ivanova (Bulgarian Acadamy of Science, Bulgaria)
- Anthony Giaquinto (Loyola University Chicago, USA)
- Alexey Gordienko (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
- Geoffrey Janssens (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
- Eric Jespers (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
- Yaakov Karasik (Technion Institute of Technology, Israel)
- Evgeny Khukhro (University of Lincoln, UK)
- Ann Kiefer (University of Bielefeld, Germany)
- Wolfgang Kimmerle (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
- Victoria Lebed (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
- Gunter Malle (TU Kaiserslautern, Germany)
- Leo Margolis (University of Murcia, Spain)
- Jan Okniński (University of Warsaw, Poland)
- Don Passman (University of Wisconsin, USA)
- Ángel del Río (University of Murcia, Spain)
- David Riley (University of Waterloo, Canada)
- Louis Rowen (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)
- Wolfgang Rump (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
- Sudarshan Sehgal (University of Alberta, Canada)
- Lance Small (University of San Diego, USA)
- Agata Smoktunowicz (University of Edinburgh, UK)
- Ernesto Spinelli (Sapienza Universita Di Roma, Italy)
- Doryan Temmerman (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
- Arne Van Antwerpen (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
- Michel Van den Bergh (FWO, University Hasselt, Belgium)
- Leandro Vendramin (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina)
- Magdalena Wiertel (University of Warsaw, Poland)
- Alexandre Zalesski (University of East Anglia, UK)
- Efim Zelmanov (University of California at San Diego, USA)
Organizers
Ferran Cedó (Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain)
Eric Jespers (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
Jan Okniński (University of Warsaw, Poland)
Michel Van den Bergh (FWO, University Hasselt, Belgium)
Scientific committee
Eli Aljadeff (Technion Institute of Technology, Israel)
Ferran Cedó (Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain)
Eric Jespers (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
Wolfgang Kimmerle (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
Jan Okniński (University of Warsaw, Poland)
Ángel del Río (University of Murcia, Spain)
Michel Van den Bergh (FWO, University Hasselt, Belgium)
local organizers
Andreas Bächle (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
Mauricio Caicedo (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
Alexey Gordienko (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
Geoffrey Janssens (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
Ann Kiefer (University of Bielefeld, Germany)
Leo Margolis (University of Murcia, Spain)
Doryan Temmerman (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
Arne Van Antwerpen (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
Registration
If you would like to register for the conference please follow this link. After your registration we will send you information on how to book a room in the conference center. The rooms reserved by us will be available until April 18th, 2017.
Event schedule
A schedule of the talks and their abstracts will be available here at a reasonable moment.
Accommodation
There is a limited number of rooms available in the conference center. Please register for the conference first. Afterwards you will receive contact details and instructions on how to book a room at the conference venue. The rates for full board are 88.50 Euro (double room for single use), 77.50 Euro (double room) and 66.67 Euro (double room for triple use with extendable sofa) per person per day.
Here are some links with interesting sites in Spa and its surroundings.
- Information on the city of Spa.
- The Thermes of Spa.
- Some hiking routes in the forests surrounding Spa.
- The race track at Spa Francorchamps.
- The City of Liege - located around 40km from Spa.
- La Boverie - the modern art museum of Liege.
Here are some links with information about Belgium.
- There are many beutiful and interisting sites to visit in Belgium! Check out the official Belgian Tourism website for a quick overview.
- Some basic knowledge about Belgian Beer. Since 2016 it is officially part of the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
- Belgium is also famous for its chocolate. Did you know the praline was invented in Belgium?
Arrival
There is a railway station in the town of Spa. From the railway
station "Spa" it is a (maximum) 10 minutes walk to the cable car which takes you
to the thermal bath right next to the conference venue. There are
hourly direct trains to Spa from the cities Pepinster, Verviers and
Aachen (Germany). Note that the last connection in direction Spa leaves the big hubs already around 20:00,
see the boxes on the right for detailed information.
Taxi Jean-Yves in Spa can be reached at +32 495 772020.
On Sunday there is a connection each hour from Brussels Airport-Zaventem to Spa with two changes (in Leuven and at Verviers-Central), with a total duration of the journey being 2 hours. The last connection to Spa departs from the Airport at 20:10 on Saturday and Sunday and at 18:41 during weekdays. Later there are still connections to Verviers-Central, from where a taxi can take you to Spa for about 50 Euros (the taxi company "centraltax" in Verviers can be reached via +32 87 333333 or +32 475 661387). For detailed information on train connections you can consult the webpage of the SNCB=NMBS.
This is the terminal for Eurostar trains and Thalys trains:
There is a connection each hour from Bruxelles-Midi to Spa with one
change at Verviers-Central, the last one departing from Bruxelles-Midi
at 19:56 on Saturdays and Sundays and one hour earlier during weekdays.
Later there are still connections to
Verviers-Central, from where a taxi can take you to Spa for about 50
Euros (the taxi company "centraltax" in Verviers can be reached via
+32 87 333333 or +32 475 661387). For detailed information on train connections
you can consult webpage of the
SNCB=NMBS.
There are six connections per day taking you in about 3h30 from Frankfurt Airport to Spa with only one change in Aachen (departure at 8:31, 10:31, 12:43, 14:43, 16:43, 18:43) and some others with more changes. See the website of Deutsche Bahn for more information.
