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Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
The Weizmann Institute of Science
announces the eleventh

Prof. CHAIM LEIB PEKERIS
MEMORIAL LECTURE
to be delivered by

Professor Efim Zelmanov
University of California, San Diego

Sponsored by the Arthur and Rochelle Belfer
Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science

The title:

On Large Pro-p Groups

On Wednesday, April 28, 2004, at 4:00 p.m.
in the Dolfi and Lola Ebner Auditorium, on campus

A reception in honor of Prof. Zelmanov
will be held after the lecture


Abstract
I'll talk about free pro-p groups and a remarkable family of "large" pro-p groups introduced by Golod and Shafarevich. A special emphasis will be made on the linearity problem and on connections with 3-manifolds.

Another lecture will be given by Prof. Zelmanov:

Lie Algebras Over Rings of Differential Operators

On Wednesday,  April 28, 2004,  at 11:00 a.m.
in  Room 1, the Ziskind  Building
Refreshments will be served after  the lecture

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