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Update June 7, 2021
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Important dates

Invited speakers

• Aichinger, Erhard  Clonoids
  
• Carai, Luca  Esakia's theorem in the monadic setting
  
• Celani, Sergio  Bitopological duality for some subordination Boolean algebras including compingent and de Vries algebras
  
• Fischer, Vera  Spectra and definability
• Gehrke, Mai  Preserving joins at primes
• Hrusak, Michael  Katetov order
• Lapenta, Serafina  Dualities and logical aspects of Baire functions
• Zamojska-Dzienio, Anna  Semilattice ordered algebras
  

Invited tutorials

• Bodirsky, Manuel  Minor Identities and Primitive Positive Constructions
• Dow, Alan  Forcing, Stone spaces and converging sequences
• Jung, Achim  Some topics in Domain Theory

Special sessions

• A special session dedicated to the memory of W. Charles Holland (1935-2020) and Jorge Martinez (1945-2020)
  Organizers: Rick Ball and Warren McGovern
  Speakers: 
   
  • Ball, Rick  kappa-hollow frames and kappa-replete vector lattices
  • Darnel, Michael  The Conrad-Harvey-Holland Theorem: a review of its impact on the study of lattice-ordered groups
  • Droste, Manfred  W. Charles Holland and Automorphism Groups of Ordered Sets
  • Dube, Themba  Fraction-dense algebraic frames
  • Dvurečenskij, Anatolij  What Are Weak Pseudo EMV-algebras?
  • Marra, Vincenzo  Some research directions in the theory of lattice-ordered groups
  • McGovern, Warren  The mathematical life of Jorge Martinez
  • Schwartz, Niels  The topology of closure systems in algebraic lattices
  • Tsinakis, Constantine  The Archimedean Property: New Perspectives

  
  Holland's Black Swamp book

  • When European settlers reached the upper Midwest in the early 19th century, they encountered a vast swamp, roughly 25 x 100 miles in extent, abutting the southern edge of Lake Erie. The Black Swamp was impenetrable during most of the year; horses sank up to their bellies, and malaria was endemic to the area. Wildlife was abundant; flocks of game birds used to darken the sun. The backbreaking labor of several generations was required to drain the swamp, and the resulting farm land became some of the richest in the Midwest. However, the ecological consequences of development have been dire, with frequent toxic algae blooms in Lake Erie due to fertilizer runoff.
    In 1972 Charles Holland joined the faculty of Bowling Green State University, located in Toledo, Ohio, site of the former Black Swamp. Charles was a leading light in research on lattice ordered groups and related topics, and it was his habit to carry a book to conferences and to ask colleagues to record questions, conjectures, and comments. The Black Swamp book is a record of the development of the theory of l-groups and related subjects over several decades, handwritten by numerous mathematicians on numerous occasions in numerous contexts and locations.
    Many of these problems appear in the article "Unsolved Problems in Ordered and Orderable Groups," by Bludov, Glass, Kopytov, and Medvedev, https://arxiv.org/pdf/0906.2621.pdf. As the title suggests, this list is heavily oriented towards group theory.
    
    Holland's Black Swamp book (PDF, 10mb)
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• Collection of photos provided by Warren McGovern
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• Stone and Priestley dualities
  Organizer: Gehrke, Mai
  Speakers:
   
  • Borlido, Célia  Extending Priestley duality along full embeddings
  • van Gool, Sam  Priestley duality for MV-algebras and beyond
  • Holliday, Wesley  Toward choice-free Esakia duality
  • Jibladze, Mamuka  A variety of bi-Heyting algebras not generated by complete algebras
  • Reggio, Luca  Lovász-type theorems and polyadic spaces
  • Tressl, Marcus  dcpo completions and Scott topologies of partially ordered sets
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