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This is a conference in algebraic topology celebrating Said Zarati's 65th birthday.

Registration is now open.

About Said Zarati

Saïd Zarati is a mathematician, specializing in Algebraic Topology, who studied at Tunis El Manar University then at Paris-Sud University where he defended his "thèse d'Etat" under the supervision of Jean Lannes. Back to Tunisia, he was appointed "Maître de Conférences" (1984) then Professor at Tunis El Manar University (1999).

He is an internationally recognized expert in the theory of unstable modules over the Steenrod algebra whose growth was boosted at the beginning of the eighties by works on the Sullivan conjecture. In particular, using the interactions between this theory and commutative algebra, he proved in 1996, jointly with Dorra Bourguiba, the Landweber-Stong conjecture about the depth of certain rings of invariants.

Saïd Zarati has founded a research unit in algebraic topology at the Faculty of Sciences of Tunis (FST) and is today the head of the research laboratory LATAO. He has supervised several Masters and Ph.D. theses; and his students (from all academic levels) have widely acclaimed his teaching skills.

He was Chairman of the Department of Mathematics of the FST for quite a while and has always been very active within the Tunisian Mathematical Society of which he was a founding member.