Faculty

• Alfredo Costa

  amgc@mat.uc.pt

• Research Area

  (Pro)finite semigroups and symbolic dynamics

• Institution

  University of Coimbra

• PhD

  Institution: the University of Porto
  Year: 2007

• Main research publications

  • Bases for pseudovarieties closed under bideterministic product (with Ana Escada) , Algebra Universalis 80 (2019)
  • A categorical invariant of flow equivalence of shifts (with Benjamin Steinberg) , Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems 36 (2016)
  • A geometric interpretation of the Schützenberger group of a minimal subshift (with Jorge Almeida) , Arkiv för Matematik 54 (2016)
  • Presentations of Schützenberger groups of minimal subshifts (with Jorge Almeida) , Israel Journal of Mathematics 196 (2013)
  • Profinite groups associated to sofic shifts are free (with Benjamin Steinberg) , Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society 102 (2011)

• PhD Students

  • Herman Goulet-Ouellet co-supervision with Jorge Almeida, ongoing

Research and Events