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Groups St Andrews 2005
Full programme of lectures and short talks
Sunday 31st July
Physics Lecture Theatre A
9:00 am: Peter Cameron, Aspects of infinite permutation groups (I)
10:00am: Akos Seress, Graphs, automorphisms and product action (I)
11:30am: Rostislav Grigorchuk, On self-similarity and branching in group theory (I)
Mathematics Lecture Theatre B
Chair: George Havas
2:00pm: Russell Blyth, Computing non-abelian tensor squares of polycyclic groups
2:25pm: Stephen Glasby, The shape of solvable and nilpotent groups
2:50pm: Vahid Alamian, Isoclinism of non-abelian tensor product of groups
3:15pm: Robert Burns, When a word spells "nilpotent-by-finite": Sarah Black's criterion
Chair: James Mitchell
4:00pm: Alan Cain, Malcev presentations for subsemigroups of groups
4:25pm: Lev Shneerson, Types of growth in semigroup varieties
4:50pm: John Bamberg, On 3/2-transitive groups
5:15pm: Goetz Pfeiffer, Units in the Burnside ring of a finite group
Mathematics Lecture Theatre C
Chair: Colva Roney-Dougal
2:00pm: Luda Markus-Epstein, Some algorithmic problems for finitely generated subgroups of amalgams of finite groups
2:25pm: Mark Stather: Computing in matrix groups
2:50pm: Vahid Dabbaghian-Abdoly, Computing matrix representations of finite groups of Lie type
3:15pm: Henrik Baarnhielm, Constructive recognition of the Suzuki groups
Chair: Sophie Huczynska
4:00pm: Waldemar Holubowski, Groups of infinite matrices
4:25pm: Scott Brown, Proportions of cyclic matrices
4:50pm: Leonid Kurdachenko, A survey: On some infinite dimensional linear groups
5:15pm: Diego Rattaggi, Quaternion groups and lattices in products of trees
Mathematics Lecture Theatre D
Chair: Alexander Konovalov
2:00pm: Conchita Martinez-Perez, On a bound for the Bredon cohomological dimension of a group
2:25pm: Karl Lorensen, P-localization and cohomology
2:50pm: Elisabetta Pastori, Cohomology groups and finite covers
3:15pm: George Glauberman, Abelian subgroups of small index in finite p-groups
Chair: Alexander Konovalov
4:00pm: Csaba Schneider, Small derived quotients in a finite p-group
4:25pm: Antonio Beltran, Conjugacy classes of p-regular elements in p-solvable groups
4:50pm: Charles Eaton, Analogues of blocks of p-solvable groups
5:15pm: Rachel Quinlan, p-Groups and spaces of alternating bilinear forms
Monday 1st August
Physics Lecture Theatre A
9:00 am: John Meakin, Interactions between group theory and semigroup theory (I)
10:00am: Peter Cameron, Aspects of infinite permutation groups (II)
11:30am: Akos Seress, Graphs, automorphisms and product action (II)
1:45pm Conference Photograph
Mathematics Lecture Theatre B
Chair: Ted Hurley
2:00pm: Mary Schaps, Crossovers between covering groups of symmetric and alternating groups
2:25pm: Elizabeth Kimber, Minimum cyclic generating sets for abelian groups
2:50pm: Alice Devillers, Presentations of groups acting on buildings
3:15pm: Andrew Duncan, Lattices of subgroups of partially commutative groups
Chair: Gunnar Traustason
4:00pm: Alexander Hulpke, Computer calculations to verify the S3 conjecture
4:25pm: Margret Jonsdottir, Computing automorphism towers
4:50pm: Maska Law, A reduction algorithm for large base primitive permutation groups
5:15pm: Scott Murray, Computing in soluble algebraic groups
Mathematics Lecture Theatre C
Chair: David Johnson
2:00pm: Zvi Arad, The History of the classification of finite CC-groups and applications (40 minutes)
2:50pm: Andrew Glass, An analogue for lattice ordered groups of Higmans embedding theorem (40 minutes)
Chair: Rex Dark
4:00pm: Dan Levy, Products of Sylow subgroups and the solvable radical, I
4:25pm: Gil Kaplan, Products of Sylow subgroups and the solvable radical, II
4:50pm: Bernhard Amberg, Radical rings and Engel condition
5:15pm: Peter Hubert, Nearrings and triply factorized groups
Mathematics Lecture Theatre D
Chair: Rachel Quinlan
2:00pm: Gunnar Traustason, Engel groups
2:25pm: Olga Macedonska, Positively discriminating groups
2:50pm: Anatoly Kondratiev, 2-Signalizers and normalizers of Sylow 2-subgroups in finite simple groups
3:15pm: Izabela Malinowska, On finite nearly uniform groups
Chair: Claas Rover
4:00pm: Olympia Talelli, On groups of type Phi
4:25pm: Taghi Karimi, Some bounds for the commutator subgroup and the Schur multiplier of a pair of finite groups
4:50pm: Eloisa Detomi, Profinite groups with a rational probabilistic zeta function
5:15pm: Erika Damian, The probabilistic zeta function of finite simple groups
Mathematics Room 1A
Chair: Russell Blyth
2:00pm: Saeed Kayvanfar, On sequences of Baer invariants of some varietal perfect groups
2:25pm: Saeed Kayvanfar, Inequalities for the Baer invariant of finite groups
2:50pm: Igor Subbotin, A survey: pronormal, abnormal, and Carter subgroups in infinite groups
3:15pm: Mihail Klin, Links between Latin squares, nets, and graphs of groups
Chair: Daniela Nikolova
4:00pm: Akbar Golchin, On kernel flatness
4:25pm: Mohammad Reza Moghaddam, The Schur multiplier and covering pair of a pair of groups
4:50pm: Arye Juharz, The membership problem for Magnus subsemigroups of 1-relator groups
Tuesday 2nd August
Physics Lecture Theatre A
9:00 am: Rostislav Grigorchuk, On self-similarity and branching in group theory (II)
10:00am: Peter M Neumann, The second memoir of Evariste Galois
11:30am: John Meakin, Interactions between group theory and semigroup theory (II)
Mathematics Lecture Theatre B
Chair: Olympia Talelli
2:00pm: Jill Dietz, Automorphisms of products
2:25pm: M.C. Pedraza-Aguilera, New results on products of finite groups
2:50pm: M.D. Perez-Ramos, On certain products of groups
3:15pm: Ana Martinez-Pastor, Embedding properties in direct products
4:00pm: Ali Reza Ashrafi, Classification of finite groups by the number of element centralizers
4:30pm: Alice Niemeyer, Symmetric groups in fancy dress
Mathematics Lecture Theatre C
Chair: Alexander Hulpke
2:00pm: Sarah Perkins, Commuting graphs for various groups
2:25pm: Michael Giudici, A global approach to the study of locally s-arc transitive graphs
2:50pm: Daniela Amato, Infinite primitive highly arc-transitive digraphs
3:15pm: Jamshid Moori, Codes, designs and graphs from finite simple groups
4:00pm: Gerhard Rosenberger, Commutative transitive, CSA- and RG-one relator groups
4:30pm: Peter Kropholler, A generalization of the Lyndon-Hochshild-Serre spectral sequence and some applications
Mathematics Lecture Theatre D
Chair: Goetz Pfeiffer
2:00pm: Peter Mayr, Sharply 2-transitive groups with point stabilizer of finite exponent
2:25pm: Gerald Williams, Pseudo-elementary generalized triangle groups
2:50pm: Jan Krempa, On strongly balanced groups
3:15pm: Alexander Konovalov, On the modular isomorphism problem of group algebras
4:00pm: Stefan Kohl, Residue class-wise affine groups
Mathematics Room 1A
Chair: Roger Bryant
2:00pm: Mohammad Davarpanah, The Schur multiplier of prime power groups
2:25pm: Farshid Saeedi, On the Schur multiplier of a pair of finite p-groups
2:50pm: Zohreh Mostaghim, On C-normal subgroups of some classes of finite groups
3:15pm: Thomas Weigel, Frattini extension and class field theory
4:00pm: Alina Vdovina, Torsion-free hyperbolic groups with property (T)
Wednesday 3nd August
Physics Lecture Theatre A
9:00 am: Peter Cameron, Aspects of infinite permutation groups (III)
10:00am: Akos Seress, Graphs, automorphisms and product action (III)
11:30am: Rostislav Grigorchuk, On self-similarity and branching in group theory (III)
Walk along Fife Coastal Path, leaving promptly from New Hall after lunch.
Bus Trip to Glamis Castle, leaving New Hall at 2pm.
David Russell Hall
7:30pm for 8pm
(Ticket Holders)
Thursday 4nd August
Physics Lecture Theatre A
9:00 am: John Meakin, Interactions between group theory and semigroup theory (III)
10:00am: Derek J S Robinson, The MaierSchmid Problem for infinite groups
11:30am: Peter Cameron, Aspects of infinite permutation groups (IV)
Mathematics Lecture Theatre B
Chair: Murray Elder
2:00pm: Zoran Sunik, The Cayley graph of the first Grigorchuk group
2:25pm: Eric Freden, Growth in Baumslag-Solitar groups
2:50pm: Daniel Ying, Trigonal Riemann surfaces of low genera
3:15pm: Dimitios Varsos, On the Hopficity of certain HNN extensions
4:00pm: Ghorban Ali Moghani, On automorphism groups of some chemical graphs
4:30pm: Robert van der Waal, On n-isoclinic groups: 1939-2004
Mathematics Lecture Theatre C
Chair: Igor Subbotin
2:00pm: Anthony Gaglione, Groups universally equivalent to free nilpotent groups
2:25pm: Des MacHale, Some supersolubility conditions for finite groups
2:50pm: Marta Morigi, The probability of generating prosoluble groups
3:15pm: Piroska Csorgo, Abelian inner mapping groups and nilpotency classes
4:00pm: Gerhard Pazderski, Linear solvable groups of maximal chief rank
4:30pm: Ben Fine, On surface groups: motivating examples in combinatorial group theory
Mathematics Lecture Theatre D
Chair: Stefan Kohl
2:00pm: Maryam Ghorbany, Permutation and quasi-permutation representations of the Chevalley groups
2:25pm: Dave Johnson, Fibonacci sequences in groups
2:50pm: Dale Sutherland, On the F^{a,b,c} conjecture
3:15pm: Daniela Nikolova, Constructive recognition of some characters of finite soluble groups
4:00pm: Thomas Keller, Orbits on conjugacy classes of normal subgroups
Mathematics Room 1A
Chair: Jamshid Moori
2:00pm: Carmela Sica, Groups with finitely many conjugacy classes of centralizer
2:25pm: Martin Cook, Conjugacy class structure in simple algebraic groups
2:50pm: Maria Tota, Normalizers and conjugacy classes of normalizers
3:15pm: Erzsebet Horvath, Inequalities related to blocks and conjugacy classes of finite groups
4:00pm: Marcel Herzog, New results on the sizes of conjugacy classes and character degrees in finite groups
Friday 5th August
Physics Lecture Theatre A
9:00 am: Akos Seress, Graphs, automorphisms and product action (IV)
10:00am: Rostislav Grigorchuk, On self-similarity and branching in group theory (IV)
11:30am: John Meakin, Interactions between group theory and semigroup theory (IV)
Mathematics Lecture Theatre B
Chair: Evgeny Khukhro
2:00pm: Rick Thomas, Irreducible word problems in groups
2:25pm: Robert Shwartz, Groups with ordered generating systems
2:50pm: Murray Elder, Games you can play with Cayley graphs
3:15pm: Chris Wensley, Introduction to representations of cat(1)-groups
Chair: Gareth Jones
4:00pm: John Bray, Explicit constructions of maximal subgroups of the Monster
4:25pm: Richard Barraclough, On the character table of a maximal subgroup of the Monster
Mathematics Lecture Theatre C
Chair: Peter Kropholler
2:00pm: Xaro Soler-Escriva, On prefrattini subgroups of finite groups: a survey
2:25pm: Clara Calvo, On one-generated formations
2:50pm: Maria Jose Felipe Roman, Structure of finite groups under certain conditions on class sizes
3:15pm: Francesco Fumagalli, On subnormality criteria for subgroups in finite groups
Chair: Des MacHale
4:00pm: Robert Morse, On Commutators
4:25pm: Arieh Lev, On the size of the commutator subgroup in finite groups
Mathematics Lecture Theatre D
Chair: Martyn Quick
2:00pm: Ahmed Khammash, On The Brauer-Fitting correspondence
2:25pm: Lucia Sanus, Fong characters and their fields of values
2:50pm: Kenneth Johnson, The characterisation of group characters using Frobenius' k-characters
3:15pm: Wujie Shi, Arithmetical properties of finite groups
Chair: Gerhard Rosenberger
4:00pm: Tatiana Pedraza, Radical locally finite T-groups
Mathematics Room 1A
Chair: Robert van der Waall
2:00pm: Negar Shahni Karamzadeh, Towards a recognition of the groups PSL(n,q) where q=p2
2:25pm: Aliakbar Mohammadi Hassanabadi, Non-cyclic graph associated with a group
2:50pm: John Bamberg, On 3/2-transitive groups
3:15pm: Kevin Jennings, Structures of abelian groups with different sets
Chair: Rick Thomas
4:00pm: Evgeny Khukhro, Automorphisms whose centralizers have small rank
4:25pm: Robert Bailey, The single orbit conjecture for uncoverings-by-bases
Physics Lecture Theatre A
4:50pm: George Havas, 4-Engel groups are locally nilpotent
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