30 May - 3 Jun 2011
Muelheim an der Ruhr, Germany
Dear Friends and Colleagues, We would like to invite you to the conference "Groups and Model Theory", May 30 - June 3, 2011. Please see below for a first announcement and please distribute it as you feel appropriate. However, we try to keep it as a "secret" away from Ruediger Goebel in the hope of surprizing him at the end of this year (see below). It would be great to meet you at this event. Best regards, Manfred Droste, Lutz Struengmann, Katrin Tent, and Martin Ziegler ********************************************************************* "Groups and Model Theory" May 30 - June 3, 2011 Muelheim an der Ruhr (Germany) The conference will focus on Group Theory, Model Theory and their interaction with a particular emphasis on Abelian Group Theory. The lectures on Thursday and the conference dinner are dedicated to Professor Ruediger Goebel on the occasion of his 70th birthday. The following main speakers have agreed to give a lecture: Peter Cameron (London) Laszlo Fuchs (Tulane) Ruediger Goebel (Essen) Dugald MacPherson (Leeds) Luigi Salce (Padova) Simon Thomas (Rutgers) Jan Trlifaj (Prague) John Truss (Leeds) Moreover, there will be several plenary talks by invited young speakers including Gabor Braun (Budapest) Daniel Herden (Essen) Itay Kaplan (Jerusalem) For further information including submission of talks, registration, the conference center, accomodation, and travelling, please see https://www.enigma-software.de/algebra/agmt Everyone is welcome to participate and to submit talks. Lutz Struengmann, Manfred Droste, Katrin Tent, and Martin Ziegler