S.L. Sobolev Institute of Mathematics SB RAS and Novosibirsk State University organized the “Maltsev Readings” international conference August 19 to 23 in Akademgorodok. This year the conference was dedicated to the 110th birthday of A. I. Maltsev’s, founder of the Siberian School of Algebra and Logic. Maltsev was responsible for making algebra and mathematical logic one discipline.
60 specialists in algebraic combinatorics, computability theory, group theory, ring theory, universal algebra, mathematical logic, non-classical logics theory, algebraic methods in information technology, the history of mathematics, and other related branches of mathematics attended the conference. The participants came from Russia (Novosibirsk, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Chelyabinsk, Omsk, Barnaul, and Krasnoyarsk), Kazakhstan, Great Britain, USA, New Zealand, Azerbaijan, and Georgia. In addition, well-known scientists in the field of model theory, Alexey Myasnikov, Sergey Shpektorov, Charles Steinhorn, John Truss, and Boris Zilber, attended.
The program consisted of plenary reports by invited experts and short presentations in seven group sections. Officially, the Maltsev Readings conference is designed to focus on the spectrum of problems in algebra and mathematical logic. However, the main topic for this conference was model theory and most of the plenary reports were related to this subject area.
Pavel Kolesnikov, Professor in the Algebra and Mathematical Logic Section at NSU’s Mechanics and Mathematics Department, talked about the value of these conferences,
International scientific conferences play an important role in the development of mathematics. The fact is that the abstract formalism used to express mathematical ideas always has a “living” foundation that can be described only through direct communication. It often happens that five minutes of personal communication with the author of a mathematical result are more effective than five weeks of studying the corresponding text. In addition, this type of communication generates the discovery of common interests that become the basis for further fruitful cooperation.
It is a tradition that any report made at the conference is considered a seminar report on "Algebra and Logic" so the results are eligible for publication in the "Algebra and Logic" journal. Plenary reports may be published as short articles and abstracts will be published in an electronic collection.
