Week 1 Short Talks

Sunday 2nd August

2pm-3:30pm, Slot A

• Johanna Rämö - Products of two involutions in finite simple groups
• Alexander Konovalov - Torsion units in integral group rings of sporadic simple groups
• Ben Fairbairn - Computing in sporadic groups: an application of
  symmetric generation

2pm-3:30pm, Slot B

• Neil Saunders - Strict inequalities of minimal degrees of direct products
• Russell Blyth - Recent progress on nonabelian tensor squares of groups
• Ben Brewster - The Frattini argument in direct products

4pm-5pm, Slot A

• Ahmad M. Alghamdi - On current conjectures of block theory
• Colin Reid - Just infinite groups

4pm-5pm, Slot B

• Markku Niemenmaa - On connected transversals to nilpotent subgroups
• Andrei Zavarnitsine - A solvable group isospectral to S(4,3)

Monday 3rd August

2pm-3:30pm, Slot A

• Shou-Jen Hu - Rationality problem for groups of order 32
• Erzsebet Horvath - Real characters in blocks
• Josu Sangroniz - p-Groups with few almost rational irreducible characters

2pm-3:30pm, Slot B

• Leonid A. Kurdachenko - On some infinite dimensional linear groups
• N.S. Karamzadeh - Characterization property of some finite
  simple groups of Lie type by their spectrum
• Neil Gillespie - On neighbour transitive codes

2pm-3:30pm, Slot C

• Cansu Betin - Point stabilizers of barely transitive groups and inert subgroups
• Heiko Dietrich - Periodic patterns in the graph of p-groups of
  maximal class
• Andrew Fransman - Trifactorized locally finite groups with min-p for every prime p

4pm-5pm, Slot A

• Akos Seress - Polynomial-time theory of matrix groups
• Attila Maroti - Hamiltonian cycles in the generating graphs of finite groups

4pm-5pm, Slot B

• Kenneth M. Monks - Mobius numbers of symmetric groups
• M.R. Darafsheh - A rationality property of irreducible characters
  of finite groups

4pm-5pm, Slot C

• Ayoub Basheer - On the regular semisimple elements and primary classes of GL(n,q)
• Antonio Tortora - Locally graded groups with a Bell condition on
  infinite subsets

Tuesday 4th August

2pm-3:30pm, Slot A

• Delaram Kahrobaei - The growth rate of an endomorphism of a group
• Marcel Herzog - On a graph related to maximal subgroups of groups
• Tara Brough - Groups with poly-context-free word problem

2pm-3:30pm, Slot B

• Ming-chang Kang - Noether's problem and the unramified Brauer group for groups of order 64
• Stefan Kohl - Simple groups generated by involutions interchanging residue classes of the integers
• Farshid Saeedi - The probability of subgroups of a finite group to be normal

2pm-3:30pm, Slot C

• Pavel Shumyatsky - Commutators in residually finite groups
• Amaia Zugadi-Reizabal - Hausdorff dimension in groups acting on trees
• Evgeny Khukhro - Lie ring method applied to a Frobenius group of
  automorphisms

4pm-5pm, Slot A

• Mohammad R.R. Moghaddam - Groups satisfying a symmetric Engel word
• Arturo Magidin - Classifying 2-generator p-groups of class 2 and
  computing their noabelian tensor square and related functors

4pm-5pm, Slot B

• Alexander Hulpke - Computational group theory in undergraduate education
• Diana Imperatore - On a graph of groups related to cyclic
  subgroups

Thursday 6th August

2pm-3pm, Slot A

• Igor Subbotin - On transitivity of some important subgroup properties
• Viji Thomas - The box-tensor product, a generalization of the
  non-abelian tensor product of groups

2pm-3pm, Slot B

• Elizabeth Wilcox - Complete wreath products of groups
• Natalia V. Maslova - On maximal subgroups of odd degree in finite
  groups with simple classical socle

Friday, 7th August

2pm-3:30pm, Slot A

• Damien Burns - Recognition algorithms for classical groups
• John Curran - Automorphisms of products of finite groups
• Jon McDougall-Bagnall - Groups with every minimal generating set
  of fixed size

2pm-3:30pm, Slot B

• Cristina Acciarri - Positive laws on large sets of generators
• Gulin Ercan - On a conjecture of Thompson
• Michael Bush - Galois groups of maximal unramified
  p-extensions

2pm-3:30pm, Slot C

• 2pm: Danila Revin - Generalization of the Sylow theorem
• 2:45pm: Evgeny Vdovin - Hall subgroups in finite simple
  groups

4pm-5pm, Slot A

• Marianne Johnson - Modular Lie powers of relation modules and free
  central extensions of groups
• Mariya Grechkoseeva - Characterization of the finite simple groups by order and set of element orders

4pm-5pm, Slot B

• Max Neunhoeffer - Finding normal subgroups of even order
• Yuliya Zelenyuk - Symmetric colourings of finite groups

Week 2 Short Talks

Wednesday 12th August

9am-11am, Slot A

• Maria-Jose Felipe - Structure of finite groups having few conjugacy class sizes
• Antonio Beltran - Class size conditions implying solvability of finite groups
• Ana Martinez-Pastor - Extending the Kegel-Wielandt theorem through pi-decomposable groups
• Thomas Michael Keller - Lower bounds for the number of conjugacy
  classes of a finite group

9am-11am, Slot B

• Arkady Tsurkov - Problem of classifying quasi-varieties of nilpotent class 2 finitely generated torsion free groups is wild
• Gerald Williams - Asphericity and finiteness of some cyclically presented groups
• Olympia Talelli - On groups of homological dimension one
• Anthony M. Gaglione - Almost locally free groups and a theorem of
  Magnus

9am-11am, Slot C

• Martyn Quick - Growth of the number of generators of direct products
• Robert Shwartz - Artin covers of finite type Artin groups
• Ciaran Mullan - Logarithmic signatures for finite groups and their applications
• Thekiso Seretlo - A group of the form 26:A8

Friday 14th August

9am-10am, Slot A

• Mohd Sham Mohamad - On the nonabelian tensor product of cyclic groups of 2-power order
• Alla Detinko - Computing with matrix groups over infinite
  fields

9am-10am, Slot B

• Manoj Kumar - Class preserving automorphisms of finite groups
• Gustavo A. Fernandez-Alcober - Outer commutator words are
  uniformly concise

9am-10am, Slot C

• Vasily Bludov - Amalgamations of right-orderable and lattice-orderable groups
• Andrew Glass - Right-orderable analogues of the Higman Embedding
  Theorem and the Boone-Higman Embedding Theorem

2pm-3:30pm, Slot A

• Rene Hartung - Computation with infinitely presented groups
• Maria Asun Garcia-Sanchez - Some bounds for the degree of commutativity of a p-group of maximal class
• Dimitrios Varsos - On the linearity of HNN-extensions with abelian
  base groups