LOOPS 2019 Conference

Description

This is a conference about loops, quasigroups and the related geometric, algebraic and combinatorial structures.

Since 1999, LOOPS conferences have been held in every 4 years, first in Prague, then in Třešť (Czech Republic), and in Ohrid (North Macedonia). The other regular conference on non-associative mathematics is Mile High, Denver (USA).

The talks will deal with the following subjects:

• abstract loops and quasigroups
• nonassociative algebras and semifields
• loops in group theory
• loops in universal algebra
• loops in combinatorics
• quandles

Invited speakers (confirmed)

• Nicholas Cavenagh (New Zealand)
  Trades and defining sets in Latin squares and related combinatorial arrays (abstract)
• Michael Kinyon (USA) 
  Interactions between Quasigroup Theory and Semigroup Theory (abstract)
• Marcell Gaál (Hungary) 
  The operation ABA on operator spaces and metric groups (abstract)
• Jose Maria Pérez-Izquierdo (Spain)
  Applications of nonassociative Hopf algebras to loop theory (abstract)
• Simona Samardjiska (The Netherlands)
  Quasigroups for cryptography
• Jonathan D. H. Smith (USA)
  Augmented quasigroups: From group duals to Heyting algebras (abstract)
• David Stanovský (Czech Republic)
  Quasigroups and the Yang-Baxter equation (abstract)
• Yue Zhou (China)
  Semifields, planar functions and MRD codes (abstract)

Scientific Board

• Piroska Csörgő (Eger, Hungary)
• Ágota Figula (Debrecen, Hungary)
• Alexander Grishkov (São Paulo, Brazil )
• Michael Kinyon (Denver, USA)
• Alexander Pott (Magdeburg, Germany)
• Victor Shcherbacov (Chişinău, Republic of Moldova)
• Jonathan D. H. Smith (Ames, USA )
• David Stanovský (Prague, Czech Republic)
• Petr Vojtěchovský (Denver, USA)
• Ian Wanless (Melbourne, Australia )

Local organiser

• Gábor P. Nagy, Algebra Department of the Budapest University of Technology
• Conference email address: loops19@math.bme.hu

Sponsors

• Algebra Department of the Budapest University of Techonology and Economics
• Bolyai Institute of the University of Szeged