GROUPS, RINGS AND GROUP RINGS 2012

FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT

23 - 28 July 2012
Ubatuba, Brazil

The International Conference "Groups, Rings and Group Rings 2012" will be held from July 23rd to 28th, 2012 at the Wembley Inn Hotel, in Ubatuba, a beach resort in the north coast of the state of Sao Paulo, Brazil. This is the third edition of this event. The first two took place at the same venue in 2004 and 2008.

The main topics of the Conference are: group theory, ring theory, group rings, their applications and related topics.

Scientific Committee:
* Y. Bahturin (St. John's, Canada and Moscow, Russia)
* V. Futorny (Sao Paulo, Brazil)
* A. Giambruno (Palermo, Italy)
* V. Kirichenko (Kiev, Ukraine)
* D. Passman (Wisconsin, USA)
* C. Polcino Milies (Sao Paulo, Brazil, chairman)
* S. Sehgal (Alberta, Canada)
* I. Shestakov (Sao Paulo, Brazil)

Local Organizing Committee:
* M. Dokuchaev (Sao Paulo)
* R. Ferraz (Sao Paulo)
* V. Ferreira (Sao Paulo)
* J. Goncalves (Sao Paulo)
* M. Guerreiro (Vicosa)
* C. Polcino Milies (Sao Paulo, chairman)

Confirmed speakers:
* E. Aljadeff (Technion, Israel)
* Y. Bahturin (St. John's, Canada and Moscow, Russia)
* M. Dokuchaev (Sao Paulo, Brazil)
* M. Ferrero (Sao Paulo, Brazil)
* V. Futorny (Sao Paulo, Brazil)
* A. Giambruno (Palermo, Italy)
* J. Goncalves (Sao Paulo, Brazil)
* E. Jespers (Vrije U. of Brussels, Belgium)
* D. Leites (Stockholm, Sweden)
* I. Kashuba (Sao Paulo, Brazil)
* V. Kirichenko (Kiev, Ukraine)
* Y. Li (Brock, Canada)
* A. Lichtman (Wisconsin, USA)
* S. Lopez-Permouth (Ohio, USA)
* L. Makar-Limanov (Wayne, USA)
* E. Marcos (Sao Paulo, Brazil)
* S. Sehgal (Alberta, Canada)
* S. Sidki (Brasilia, Brazil)
* A. Valenti (Palermo, Italy)

Further information on registration, accommodation, travelling, submission of abstracts, etc are available at http://www.ime.usp.br/~grgr/2012/.

To contact the organizing committee, please send an email message to < This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it > or write to
Prof. Cesar Polcino Milies
Departamento de Matematica
IME-USP
Caixa Postal 66281
Sao Paulo - SP
05314-970
Brazil