The 3rd NOVI SAD ALGEBRAIC CONFERENCE
Novi Sad, Serbia, August 17-21, 2009

The NSAC conference series has its origins in a series of meetings of researchers in the fields of algebra and mathematical logic from the old Yugoslavia that took place in the eighties. These meetings were jointly organized by mathematical departments of universities of Belgrade, Skopje and Novi Sad. At first, they were plainly called "Algebraic Conference", while from the fourth edition onwards the name "Algebra and Logic" (Algebra i logika, AiL) was established. In total, there were 8 such conferences; the first seven of them were held in: Skopje (1980), Novi Sad (1981), Belgrade (1982), Zagreb (1984), Cetinje (1986), Sarajevo (1987) and Maribor (1989).

Sadly, the break-up of Yugoslavia and the tragic historical events that followed broke this nice tradition for a number of years. We in Novi Sad tried to revive the "AiL" conference series by organizing its 8th edition in September 1998. Although the meeting attracted a significant number of colleagues from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia, it was truly international in spirit. More than a half of speakers came from outside the ex-Yugoslavia: we had participants from Great Britain, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Russia, U.S.A.,...

For this reason, we decided it's time to start a new international conference series with a new name, NSAC, which would be permanently located in Novi Sad or its proximity. The first two NSAC conferences were organized in August 2003 and July 2005, respectively, both times with around 80 participants from more than 20 countries.

This is the third conference in the series. Our current plan is to organize a NSAC every four years (in the year following the Summer Olympics), thus alternating with the well-known algebraic conferences in Szeged in order to have a similar event in the region every two years.