Vlora Conference Series

Note:  Talks in color are tutorials and directed to graduate students and
non-experts.

Saturday:

10:00-10:50   V. Ustimenko (Poland)
 An introduction to cryptography

11:00-11:50   M. Incesu, (Karadeniz Technical University, Turkey)    
  Linear and Non Linear Similarity Invariant Rational Functions   
  and Their Generators in R2

Lunch 12:00-13:00

13:00-13:50      
E. Pasku (University of Glasgou)
   P. Petro (University of Tirana)
  Clifford Semigroups, Connections and Contrasts with Groups

14:00-14:50   
T. Shaska, (Oakland Univ.)
  Subvarieties of the moduli space of curves determined by
  prescribed group actions.

15:00-15:50     
A. Elezi, (American Univ.)  
  String Theory and Enumerative Geometry.

Sunday:

9:30-10:50     T. Shaska, (Oakland Univ)
Introduction to coding theory


3:00-3:50       V. Ustimenko, UMCS, Lublin, Poland




Lunch  12:00-13:30

4:00-7:00        
Panel discussion:
The state of Albanian mathematics and its challenges
of the 21-century.

Topics which will be discussed are how to get  international research
grants, increasing the publication rate among faculty in mathematics
departments, developing new programs that better fit the new developments
in technology, computation, etc

Panelists:      
A. Elezi, (American Univ)
P. Petro, (Univ. of Tirana)
L. Puka, (Univ. of Tirana)
M. Dema,  (Univ. of Prishtina)
A. Zejnullahu (Univ. of Prishtina)
T. Shaska,  (Oakland Univ.)
Vlora Conference on Algebra, Coding Theory, and Cryptography,
Vlora, Albania, May 26-27, 2007.
On the extremal graphs, their automata, dynamiacal
systems,  and cryptography.