AAA108

Last month I was in Vienna, at AAA108. This was the 108th meeting of the Arbeitsgruppe Allgemeine Algebra (or Workshop on General Algebra), which has been going since 1971, with usually two meetings a year. The meetings are held at weekends, to maximise the chance that people can attend without disrupting their lecturing schedules too much (Friday, Saturday and Sunday morning). It was founded by Rudolf Wille (whose influence still lingers; there was at least one talk about concept lattices),...