Groups St Andrews 2009 in Bath

This is the timetable of main talks and sessions, with some details of the
social programme below. There is also a
Timetable of Short Talks.

Week 1 Timetable


  9:00-10:00 10:00-11:00 11-11:30 11:30-12:30 12:30-2 2-3 3-3:30 3:30-4 4-5 5:00-6:00

Sunday
2nd Aug
Segal
1
Hiss
1
Coffee O'Brien
1
Lunch Parallel
Talks Tea Parallel
Talks
Nekrashevych 1

Monday
3rd Aug
Sapir
1
O'Brien
2
Coffee Nekrashevych
2
Lunch Parallel
Talks Tea Parallel
Talks
Segal 2

Tuesday
4th Aug
O'Brien
3
Sapir
2
Coffee Hiss
2
Lunch Parallel
Talks Tea Parallel
Talks
 

Wednesday
5th Aug
Sapir
3
Nekrashevych
3
Coffee Segal
3
Lunch

Thursday
6th Aug
Nekrashevych
4
Hiss
3
Coffee Deaconescu Lunch Parallel
Talks
O'Brien
4
Tea (till 4:30)

Friday
7th Aug
Hiss
4
Segal
4
Coffee Holubowski Lunch Parallel
Talks Tea Parallel
Talks
Sapir 4

Week 2 Timetable


  9:00-10:00 10:00-11:00 11-11:30 11:30-12:30 12:30-2 2:00-3:30 3:30-4 4-5 5:00-6:00

Monday
10th Aug
B.H.Neumann Day
P.M. Neumann
Vaughan-Lee Coffee
Praeger Lunch
Holubowski;
Russo;
Kappe
Tea W. Neumann
Baumslag

Tuesday
11th Aug
Cannon & Holt
Day
Havas
Röver Coffee
Conder Lunch
Thomas;

Glasby
Tea Murray;

Roney-Dougal
Leedham-Green (30 mins)

Wednesday
12th Aug
Parallel
Talks Coffee
Robinson Lunch

Thursday
13th Aug
Engel Groups Day
Traustason
Macedonska Coffee
Longobardi Lunch
Moravec;
Morse;
Cicalò
Tea Abdollahi
Vaughan-Lee

Friday
14th Aug
Parallel Talks
Rosenberger Coffee
Blackburn Lunch
Parallel Talks Tea Fine

Social Programme

  • Tues Aug 4, Week 1 banquet, Cumberwell Gold Club
  • Weds Aug 5, afternoon, Trip to Stonehenge and Salisbury
  • Thu Aug 6, evening race meeting, Racecourse (Cost: 15
    pounds, incl. entry; to be confirmed,
    depending upon sufficient interest)
  • Sun Aug 9, Sight-seeing bus trip in London (Cost: 15 pounds,
    to be confirmed, depending upon sufficient
    interest)
  • Tues Aug 11, Week 2 banquet, Bath Racecourse Marquee
  • Weds Aug 12, afternoon, Trip to Stourhead (gardens) and Wells

Main Speakers

  • Gerhard Hiss, "Finite groups of Lie type and their
    representations" (Week 1; Sun 10, Tue 11:30, Thu 10 &
    Fri 9)
  • Volodymyr Nekrashevych, "Iterated monodromy
    groups" (Week 1; Sun 5, Mon 11:30, Wed 10 & Thu
    9)
  • Eamonn O'Brien, "Effective algorithmic approaches for
    linear groups" (Week 1; Sun 11:30, Mon 10, Tue 9 &
    Thu 3)
  • Dan Segal, "Words and groups" (Week 1; Sun 9, Mon
    5, Wed 11:30 & Fri 10)
  • Mark Sapir, "Residually finite groups, random walks and
    dynamics of polynomial maps over p-adics" (Week 1;
    Mon 9, Tue 10, Wed 9 & Fri 5)

Plenary Talks

  • Simon Blackburn, "Group theory in cryptography"
    (Week 2, Fri 11:30)
  • Marian Deaconescu, "Automotives" (Week 1, Thu 11:30)
  • Ben Fine, "One relator groups: A systematic
    approach" (Week 2, Fri 4)
  • Waldemar Holubowski, "Subgroups of infinite
    matrices" (Week 1, Fri 11:30)
  • Derek Robinson, "Generalized Baumslag-Solitar
    groups" (Week 2, Wed 11:30)
  • Gerhard Rosenberger, "Subgroups generated by the
    solution sets of quadratic equations in group amalgams"
    (Week 2, Fri 10)

B.H. Neumann Day (Week 2, Monday)

  • Peter Neumann, "Some classic and nearly classic
    problems on varieties of groups"
  • Michael Vaughan-Lee, "The Hughes Problem"
  • Cheryl Praeger, "Bernhard Neumann: one hundred years"
  • Waldemar Holubowski, "On free groups in the variety
    generated by a finite group"
  • Francesco Russo, "A different formulation of a result
    of B.H. Neumann"
  • Luise-Charlotte Kappe, "Finite coverings: a journey
    through groups, loops, rings and semigroups"
  • Walter Neumann, "Quasi-isometry of 3-manifold
    groups"
  • Gilbert Baumslag, "Remembering Bernhard Neumann"

Cannon & Holt Day (Week 2, Tuesday)

  • George Havas, "On one-relator quotients of the modular
    group"
  • Claas Röver, "Languages in group theory"
  • Marston Conder, "Finding normal subgroups of small
    index in finitely-presented groups"
  • Rick Thomas, "Some generalizations from groups to semigroups"
  • Steve Glasby, "Computing the Frobenius normal form"
  • Scott Murray, "An application of Magma to groups acting on trees"
  • Colva Roney-Dougal, "Maximal subgroups of finite groups"
  • Charles Leedham-Green, "Classifying p-groups"

Engel Groups Day (Week 2, Thursday)

  • Gunnar Traustason, "Engel groups"
  • Olga Macedonska, "On Engel and positive laws"
  • Patricia Longobardi, "Engel conditions on orderable
    groups and in combinatorial problems"
  • Primoz Moravec, "Schur multipliers of 4-Engel groups"
  • Robert F. Morse, "Levi-properties in groups: The Engel
    connection"
  • Serena Cicalò, "Constructing n-Engel Lie rings"
  • Alireza Abdollahi, "Engel elements in groups"
  • Michael Vaughan-Lee, "Lie ring methods in Engel
    groups"


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