Some recent conference talks by Ross Willard
- Fields Summer School, "Universal algebra for CSP,"
Lecture 1 slides,
Lecture 2 slides.
- OAL2.0 (June 2011, Krakow),
"Relational structures, Maltsev conditions, and CSP,"
slides (pdf) (229 KB).
- AMS sectional meeting (March 2011, Iowa City),
"A new property of finite NU(4) algebras" (with M. Kozik),
slides (pdf) (172 KB).
- CP 2010 (St. Andrews, Scotland), "Testing expressibility is hard,"
slides (pdf) (229 KB).
- BLAST 2010 Tutorial lecture 1 (pdf) (200 KB),
lecture 2 (pdf) (204 KB).
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Summer School on Algebra and Ordered Sets (Trest, Czech Republic, 2008),
"Universal Algebra and Computational Complexity," a tutorial:
slides 1 (pdf) (292 KB);
slides 2 (pdf) (308 KB);
slides 3 (pdf) (352 KB).
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Workshop on Universal Algebra and the Constraint Satisfaction Problem (Nashville, 2007),
"Quick course in universal algebra and tame congruence theory,"
slides (pdf) (232 KB).
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Order, Algebra, and Logics (Nashville, 2007), "Four unsolved problems in congruence permutable
varieties,"
slides (pdf) (188 KB).