Conference in memory of Gena Puninski

University of Manchester, 6-9th April 2018

An informal meeting in memory of our friend and colleague Gena Puninski (26/09/1961-29/04/2017)

Programme and Details

Talks will begin at 1 p.m. on Friday 6th April and finish early in the afternoon of Monday 9th April. They will take place in the School of Mathematics in the Alan Turing Building - building 46 on the Campus Map at the University of Manchester Maps and Travel page which also has information on travel to and around Manchester.

There will be a conference dinner, 7 for 7:30, on the evening of Saturday 7th April. Held in the room above The Rivals restaurant, acessed by the stairs you can see top right in the photo, in the Royal Exchange Building. map

Schedule of talks

Participants

Talks

Talks for which pdfs are available:

Alberto Facchini: Equivalence of some homological conditions for ring epimorphisms

Carlo Toffalori: The torsion free part of the Ziegler spectrum of orders over Dedekind domains

Mohamed Yousif: Utumi modules

Robert Wisbauer: A categorical approach to tilting theory

Sonia L'Innocente: Abelian regularization of rings and modules

Alberto Tonolo: Leavitt path algebras are Bezout

Alex Martsinkovsky: How to define, generalize, and dualize the notion of torsion

Jan Trlifaj: Faith's problem on R-projectivity is independent of ZFC

Registration

If you wish to attend for all or part of the meeting, please inform the local organiser, Mike Prest mprest@manchester.ac.uk. If you would like to contribute a talk, please contact Mike Prest.

Accommodation

The University is 10-15 minutes' walk South of the City Centre and there are many hotels within a reasonable walking distance. Currently (January 2018) there seems to be no problem with availability but Sunday 8th April is the day of the Manchester Marathon, so accommodation might become more expensive nearer the date as availability decreases.

Here are some suggestions.

Ibis on Charles Street/Princess Street

Ibis on Portland Street

Budget Ibis on Pollard Street

Pendulum Hotel

Of these, the Ibis on Charles/Princess Street and Pendulum are closest to the Alan Turing Building. The following three are rather more expensive (the rooms at Roomzzz have cooking facilities).

Roomzzz (Manchester City)

Holiday Inn Express, Oxford Road

INNSIDE

Travel

The University of Manchester Maps and Travel page has useful information.

Manchester Airport lies on the South side of the city. There are regular, direct train services from the airport to the city centre (Manchester Piccadilly is the main station; some services will also stop at Manchester Oxford Road). A one-way ticket costs £4-£5, depending on the time of day.

Organisers