Amitsur Memorial Symposium 2025

Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 14/7/2025

In memoriam of Ilya (Eliyahu) Rips

The Amitsur Memorial Symposium is an annual conference in memory of Prof. Shimshon Avraham Amitsur, 1921–1994. It is hosted by a different institution each year since 1995.

This year's meeting honors the memory of Ilya Rips, whom we sadly lost last year.

Please register via the registration form.

Organizers: Zlil Sela and Ori Parzanchevski.


Program

List of Abstracts for the talks.

The symposium will be held in the department of Mathematics (Manchester building)

Follow this link for distant watching (no participation possible).

9:15

Assembling

9:30

Zlil Sela, Eliyahu Rips: A short mathematical biography

10:00

Daniel Wise, Weizmann Institute

Cubical Quotients and Nonproducts

10:45

Coffee break

11:15

Eugene Plotkin, Bar-Ilan University

Elementary equivalence of algebraic groups

12:10

Nir Lazarovich, The Technion

Highly twisted knot diagrams

13:00

Lunch

14:30

Agatha Atkarskaya, Hebrew University

The Burnside problem for odd exponents

15:30

Elena Bunina, Bar-Ilan University

Automorphisms of Twisted Forms of Chevalley Groups

16:30

Michah Sageev, The Technion

Topological median algebras structures on Euclidean spaces

18:30

Dinner (at Caffit, the Botanical Gardens, Givat Ram).