An Open Problem on Identities in Groups.

Sue WhitesidesUniversity of Victoria, Canada

sue@uvic.ca

21 June 2011

Here’s a problem it would seem tractable to solve by working together: who are the people below?

The problem is indeed no longer open and was solved at the workshop (e.g., see [1]).

Pictured in each row, from left to right, and from front to back, are:

Row 1: Martin Derka, Richard Beal, Alejandro Erickson, Tetsuo Asano, Pavol Hell, Mathias Weller,Ross Churchley, Peter Lam, Jing Huang, China Venkaiah Vadlamudi, Subramanian Arumugam,Bill Smyth;

Row 2: Fran Rosamond, Michael Fellows, Sue Whitesides, Tomas Valla, Jyrki Katajainen, SebastianBoecker, Ladislav Stacho, Venkatesh Srinivasan, Donald Adjeroh, Wendy Myrvold;

Row 3: Avraham Trahtman, Julio Araujo, Maria Tamayo, Bernd Zey, Tamon Stephen, Rebeccavan Grootheest , Russell Campbell, Frank Ruskey, Marsha Minchenko, Rahnuma Nishat, DebajyotiMondal, Jared Gaertner; and

Row 4: Brent Heeringa, Petr Skoda, Gautam Sisodia, Emilio Di Giacomo , Jenni Woodcock, ChrisThachuk, Aaron Williams, Khalegh Ahmadi.

References

[1] http://webhome.cs.uvic.ca/∼wendym/IWOCA/IWOCA 2011.html

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