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Group Theory in Galway
The University College Galway has held a meeting on Group Theory every spring since 1978.
For a brief history of this conference series see the article History of Groups in Galway.
A paper by C M Campbell about the Galway Group meetings is at THIS LINK.
Below we give the speakers and titles of the talks for the conferences:
For a brief history of this conference series see the article History of Groups in Galway.
A paper by C M Campbell about the Galway Group meetings is at THIS LINK.
Below we give the speakers and titles of the talks for the conferences:
Click on a year below to see the data from that year.
1978 1979
1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989
1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
2020 2021 2022 2023
1978
J P McDermott (University College Galway) Some aspects of permutation groups
T J Laffey (University College Dublin) On finite simple groups
G Thomas (University College Cork) Topics in group representation theory
N Losey (Manitoba) Augmentation quotients of some nonabelian finite groups
1979
Rex Dark (University College Galway) Basic commutators
Roderick Gow (University College Dublin) Theories and problems of modular representations
Alan Camina (Univ. East Anglia) Permutation groups and designs
W E Deskins (Univ. Pittsburgh) Conditions on small subgroups in the Fitting subgroup
1980
M L Newell (University College Galway) On metabelian groups of prime power exponent
D MacHale (University College Cork) Some groups which are rarely automorphism groups
T Hurley (University College Dublin) Bases for groups and Lie algebras
M Vaughan-Lee (Oxford) Groups of exponent 4
1981
John Lennox (University of Cardiff) Nearly maximal sub-groups of finitely generated soluble groups
Michael Barry (Carysfort Training College) Commutators in Chevalley groups
Sean Tobin (U.C.G.) Burnside groups
Johannes Siemons (U.C.C.) Orbits in permutation groups
1982
A Christofides (University College Galway) Blocks and modules
J D Key (Birmingham) Doubly transitive affine groups
T C Hurley (University College Galway) Report on Fox's problem
R A Bryce (QMC/ANU) Metabelian varieties of groups and group rings
B Siefert (UCD) Buildings, BN pairs and related groups
M Barry (Carysfort) Abelian 2-subgroups of finite symplectic groups in characteristic 2
P Fitzpatrick (University College Cork) Varieties of nilpotent groups of class four
J Siemons (University College Cork) Symmetry in a graph
A Williamson Factorisation of groups of finitary permutations
J McDermott Hamiltonian graphs
1983
R Watson (Maynooth) Some aspects of profinite groups
J Hannah (Galway) Semigroups and lattices
R Gow (Dublin, U. C. D.) Permutation representations of some classical groups on the cosets of certain classical groups
P Cameron (Oxford) Infinite permutation groups
M Liebeck (Cambridge) Some applications of the classification of finite simple groups to permutation group theory
J Ward (Galway) On subrings which permute with their conjugates
B Abrahamson (Canberra/T. C. D.) Quaternion monomials
C Walter (Dublin, U. C. D.) Automorphism groups of graphs
M Barry (Carysfort) Computing dimensions of irreducible modules
S Tobin (Galway) Groups with ()
T Laffey (Dublin) Max com subalgebras of algebras
M Newell (Galway) Metabelian groups of exponent 8, II
1984
David Lewis (Dublin, U.C.D.) Brauer groups and the Merkurjev-Suslin Theorem
Rex Dark (Galway, U.C.G.) Isotropic tensors and symmetric group algebras
Mark Cartwright (Christ Church, Oxford) Bounded conjugacy conditions
Charles Leedham-Green (London, Q.M.C.) Space groups and p-groups
Pat Fitzpatrick (Cork, U.C.C.) Some questions on conjugacy
Martin Newell (Galway, U.C.G.) On 2-generator metabelian groups of prime-power exponent
Marty Isaacs (Wisconsin) Characters of soluble groups
Ted Hurley (Galway, U.C.G.) What can you do with a set of variables?
Problem Session
1985
S J Tobin (Galway) Razmyslow Algebras
M Ó Searcoid (Cork) Comhaireamh p-Pho-ghrúpai
T G Murphy (T.C.D.) Tensor Groups
G D James (Cambridge) A q-Analogue of the Symmetric Group Algebra
T J Laffey (U.C.D.) Some Maximal Subgroups of the General Linear Group
D W Lewis (U.C.D.) Sums of Squares in Division Algebras
P D MacHale (U.C.C.) The Relation between and for a Finite Group G
T O Hawkes (Warwick) Linear Methods in Soluble Groups
1986
D W Hughes (Galway) Modules and Root Systems
R Dimitrić (Kevin St, Dublin) Abelian Goups and Axiomatic Set Theory
J Rotman (Illinois/London) Finite Projective Planes, Graphs, and Symplectic Groups
R J Higgs (Univ. College, Dublin) Degrees of Projective Representations
M Edjvet (Brunel, London) Group Presentations and Simplicial Complexes
D B Redmond (Maynooth) Groups in Chemistry
M J Barry (Carysfort) Order Conjugacy in Groups of Lie Type
C M Campbell (St Andrews) Presentations for Certain Perfect Groups
1987
T C Hurley (Galway) Free Products
P Fitzpatrick (Cork) Groups with Few Automorphism Orbits
R O Watson (Maynooth) Finite Varieties
W M L Holcombe (Sheffield) Algebraic Methods of System Specification
R Gow (Univ. College, Dublin) Realizing Groups as Galois Groups over Algebraic Number Fields
D J Simms (Trinity Coll, Dublin) Lie Groups and Poisson Algebras
E F Robertson (St Andrews) Non-abelian Tensor Products and Tietze Transformations
1988
G Ellis (Galway) Groups with category structures
N Gilbert (Bangor) Factor stabilisers in the automorphism group of a free product
T Laffey (U.C. Dublin) Order-transitive groups
D MacHale (Cork) Automorphisms of groups sending many elements to their nth powers -- a survey of results
M Newman (Canberra) Groups of exponent four
G Sherman (Terre Haute) What is the probability that a subgroup is normal?
E Ormerod (Canberra) The Wielandt subgroup of a metacyclic p-group
B McCann (Galway) Examples of normal products
B Goldsmith (Dublin I.T.) Maximal order abelian subgroups of symmetric groups
E O'Brien (Canberra) Algorithm for the determination of finite p-groups
S Andreadakis (Athens) Residually finite HNN extensions of abelian groups
L Kovacs (Canberra) Classification of varieties of groups
1989
J J Ward (Galway) A survey of subnormal groups
T Vougiouklis (Xanthi) On some representations of hypergroups
P Fitzpatrick (Cork) Some applications of group theory to codes
H Heineken (Wurzburg) E-groups
R Gow (U.C. Dublin) The discriminant of a polynomial and its uses in field theory
M D Atkinson (Carleton) The zig-zag structure of permutations
L-C Kappe (New York) Ring analogues of some group-theoretical concepts
A Wegner (St Andrews) GAP
1990
J McDermott (Galway) Remarks on dense permutation groups
B McCann (Waterford) Fitting Classes and groups with many minimal normal subgroups
C K Gupta (Manitoba) Automorphisms of certain finitely generated solvable groups
B Amberg (Mainz) Factorised Groups
T Laffey (Dublin) Some commutator-related results on linear groups and applications
N Gilbert (London) Dependence among relations in group presentations
D Cohen (London) String rewriting and Homology
M Curzio (Naples) Sets of permutable subgroups in a group
G Higman (Oxford) Some explicit embeddings of finitely presented groups
P Neumann (Oxford) Suborbits of infinite permutation groups
N D Gupta (Manitoba) Latest on dimension subgroups
T Hurley (Galway) Commutator Subgroups
D MacHale (Cork) Determining all finite groups whose automorphism group is a p-group
B Goldsmith (Dublin) Constructing indecomposable abelian groups which are almost free
1991
T Hurley (Galway) Every group is isomorphic to a quotient of a free group
C Scoppola (Trento) Thin p-groups
J Buckley (Michigan & Cardiff) A generalization of Hamiltonian Groups
J O'Connor (St Andrews) Teaching Group Theory with MACTUTOR
R Dark (Galway) On certain p-groups with many commutators
P Murphy (Carlow) Commutator subgroups of groups with small central factor groups
Problem Session
D MacHale (Cork) Automorphism groups of Odd Order
D Johnson (Nottingham) Growth of Groups
1992
A Christofides (Galway) Galois groups and Riemann surfaces
R Sheehy (Cork) Frobenius's Conjecture
H Smith (Bucknell & Cardiff) Some remarks on maximal subgroups of infinite groups
K Hutchinson (Dublin) Galois group actions on classgroups
E Robertson (St Andrews) Semigroup presentations
B Hartley (Manchester) Simple locally finite groups
1993
J Burns (Galway) Groups and Riemannian Geometry
J Ward (Galway) Group character degrees and conjugacy class lengths
R Watson (Maynooth) Tangent stars as modules
G Ellis (Galway) Tensor Products of Groups
C Campbell (St Andrews) Computing efficient presentations
M Newell (Galway) Engel elements 3.2
1994
B McCann (Waterford) Products of certain p-groups
P Fitzpatrick (Cork) Minimal elements in Gröbner bases of certain polynomial modules
R Brown (Bangor) Computing with 2-dimensional groups
R Gow (U.C.D.) A survey of algebra textbooks through the ages
S Pride (Glasgow) Monoids, 2-complexes and groups
C Wensley (Bangor) Crossed modules in GAP
E Robertson (St Andrews) A Reidemeister-Schreier theorem for semigroups
1995
J McDermott (Galway) The skeleton of a group
D L Johnson (Nottingham) Presentations of monoids
V Dlab (Carleton) Quasi-hereditary algebras
C Campbell (St Andrews) The efficiency of group presentations
D MacHale (Cork) Conjugate deficiency in finite groups
M Newman (Canberra) On groups with exponent four
F Levin Recent results on generalised triangle groups
R Stöhr (Manchester) Fixed points on free Lie algebras
T Laffey (Dublin) Groups of linear transformations preserving certain matrix functions
J Wiegold (Cardiff) Some problems in group theory
S Sehgal (Alberta) Torsion in matrices over
H Smith (Bucknell) A problem on normal subgroups
P Neumann (Oxford) The past, present, and future of Frobenius groups
1996
Graham Ellis (UCG) Applications of an exact sequence
Wolfgang Kappe (SUNY at Binghamton) Some subgroups defined by identities
David Lewis (UCD) Quadratic forms and Galois groups
Sudarshan Sehgal (Alberta) Free groups of units in
Jozsef Pelikan (Eotvos, Budapest) Conjugacy classes of finite groups
Seymour Bachmuth (UC at Santa Barbara) Metabelian quotients and generalized Burnside groups
Luise-Charlotte Kappe (SUNY at Binghamton) On supplementation in groups
1997
Sean Tobin (Galway) Burnside's legacy
Mike Newman (Canberra) Groups with exponent four revisited
Celinne Lossa (Rochester) Relations between the mod-pr Massey product and the mod-pr triple Whitehead product and possible applications
Roderick Gow (UC Dublin) Integral lattices and their role in group representation theory
Des MacHale (Cork) On the sum of the character degrees of a finite group
Ralph Stöhr (Manchester) On the module structure of free Lie algebras
Simone Pabst (DIT) Quasi-minimal abelian groups
Werner Nickel (St Andrews) Polynomials for nilpotent groups
Eamonn O'Brien (Auckland) Classifying p-groups by coclass
1998
Dane Flannery (Galway) Classifying finite irreducible linear groups of low degree
Norberto Gavioli (L'Aquila) Frobenius-like partitions in linear groups of nilpotency class 2
Roger Bryant (Manchester) Automorphisms of relatively free groups
Alexei Krasil'nikov (Moscow) Identities in metanilpotent groups
Patrick Sole (Nice) The lifted Golay code, the Leech lattice, and the Harada designs
Howard Smith (Bucknell) A finiteness condition for locally soluble-by-finite groups
Luise-Charlottte Kappe (SUNY at Binghamton) Subnormality conditions in nontorsion groups
Derek Holt (Warwick) Computation in word hyperbolic groups
Sarah Rees (Newcastle) Combing groups through the Chomsky hierarchy
Jim Howie (Heriot-Watt) Rigidity of one-relator groups with centre
Goetz Pfeiffer (Galway) The parabolic table of marks, or how to decompose the descent algebra
Willem de Graaf (St Andrews) Constructing matrix representations of finitely presented torsion free nilpotent groups
Ralph Stoehr (Manchester) Invariant bases for free Lie algebras
Martin Bridson (Oxford) On the geometry of the word problem in finitely presented groups
Martin Dunwoody (Southampton) Geometric splittings of groups
1999
N O'Sullivan (Galway) Localisations of virtually nilpotent groups
J Murray (Maynooth) Applications of character theory to finite groups
E Khukhro (Cardiff) From 'finite' to 'finite rank'
S Linton (St Andrews) Towards a general theory of Todd-Coxeter like techniques
M Batty (Galway) Asymptotic homology of graph groups
G Mason (Santa Cruz) When is a group algebra not a group algebra?
2000
A Feldman (Galway/Franklin & Marshall College, PA) Fischer F-groups and F-injectors
D MacHale (Cork) Converse Lagrange groups
R Esteban-Romero (Valencia) On a question of Beidleman and Robinson
H Smith (Bucknell PA) Subnormality and nilpotency in infinite groups
E O'Brien (Auckland) Constructing the automorphism group of a p-group
D Perez-Ramos (Valencia) Fitting classes and lattice formations in finite soluble groups
M Batty (Dublin) Parallel algorithms in hyperbolic groups
A Martinez-Pastor (Valencia) Factorisations of finite soluble groups and formations
C Leedham-Green (London) Strategies for recognising matrix groups
2001
R Dark (Galway) Generalisations of Sylow's theorems
R Shwartz (Heriot-Watt) Certain equations of length six over free products
R Gow (UCD) The Steinberg lattice of a finite Chevalley group
C Campbell (St Andrews) The semigroup efficiency of groups
E Robertson (St Andrews) The Fibonacci length of groups
C Casolo (Florence) Groups with all subgroups subnormal
O Puglisi (Florence) Group algebras of locally finite simple groups
C Griffin (Oxford) Associating algebraic varieties to infinite nilpotent groups using zeta functions
A Detinko Deciding finiteness for matrix groups over fields of positive characteristic
G Hiss (Aachen) Low dimensional representations of quasi-simple groups
2002
M Newell (Galway) On Sanov-compounds
S O'Rourke (Cork) On free actions on treelike objects
R Brown (Bangor) Calculating resolutions for graphs of groups
M Ladra (Santiago de Compostela) Homology of precrossed modules
J Cruickshank (Galway) Equivariant homotopy theory
R Quinlan (Dublin) Covering groups of elementary abelian groups
T Brady (Dublin) Lattices in finite real reflection groups
I Kholodna (Cork) Classifying spaces for dihedral groups
T Laffey (Dublin) The structure of some groups arising from integer matrices
S Paoli (Warwick) Cohomology of crossed modules with coefficients in a -module
H Smith (Bucknell) Subgroups of infinite index in soluble groups
D MacHale (Cork) Which groups are commutator subgroups?
E Sköldberg (Stockholm) to be announced
K Hutchinson (Dublin) K-theory of rings of integers
E Robertson (St Andrews) Searching for group presentations
2003
A Feldman (Franklin and Marshall) Properties implying normal embeddings in soluble groups
R Morse (Evansville) Computing the nonabelian tensor squares of the free 2-Engel groups
C Scoppola (L'Aquila) From Camina groups to normally constrained pro-p-groups
R Higgs (University College Dublin) Some inequalities concerning the order of the Schur multiplier of a finite group
C M Campbell (St Andrews) Fibonacci and groups
T Laffey (University College Dublin) The Smith normal form of diagonalizable matrices with some applications
Emil Sköldberg (Galway) Cohomology of Coxeter and generalized braid groups
L Kappe (SUNY at Binghamton) Capable groups and nonabelian tensor squares
G Mason (UC Santa Cruz) Mirror pairs of finite groups
2004
Gerald Williams (Galway) Free subgroups in groups defined by periodic paired relations
Claas Röver (Trinity College Dublin) Groups related to formal languages
Edmund Robertson (St Andrews) Problems on group presentations revisited
Dmitri Zaitsev (Trinity College Dublin) Lie group structures on CR automorphism groups
Martin Bridson (Oxford) Non-positive curvature, fibre products, and a problem of Grothendieck
Patrick Dehornoy (Caen) The group of fractal braids
Alla Detinko (Polotsk) Algorithmic problems in computing with matrix groups
Bettina Eick (Braunschweig) On the classification of p-groups by coclass
Alexander Lichtman (Wisconsin-Parkside) Restricted Lie algebras of polycyclic groups
Hamish Short (Aix-Marseille) Solving conjugacy problems in hyperbolic groups
2005
Seán Tobin (NUI, Galway) Opening address
John McDermott (NUI, Galway) On theorems of Higman and Wielandt
Rachel Quinlan (UC Dublin) p-Groups and spaces of alternating bilinear forms
Tom Laffey (UC Dublin) Jordan forms in small characteristic
Stewart Stonehewer (Warwick) Some new results on quasinormal subgroups
Francisco de Giovanni (Universita di Napoli) Groups with few normalizer subgroups
Geoff Smith (Bath) Cyclizers and a question of Peter Cameron
Warwick de Launey (Center for Communications Research, USA) Group actions on Paley matrices
Luise-Charlotte Kappe (SUNY) Variations on a theme of Desmond MacHale
Des MacHale (UC Cork) Some supersolvability conditions for finite groups
Colin Campbell (St Andrews) The Fibonacci lengths of binary polyhedral groups and related groups
Robert F Morse (University of Evansville, USA) Advances in computing the nonabelian tensor square of polycyclic groups
Alla Detinko (NUI Galway/Belarus) Locally nilpotent linear groups
Hermann Heineken (Universität Würzburg) Groups all of whose subgroups are p-groups
Rex Dark (NUI, Galway) Two problems in group theory
2006
Götz Pfeiffer (NUI Galway) Relatives of the symmetric group algebra
Cedric Bonnafé (Université de Franche-Comté) Representation theory of the Mantaci-Reutenauer algebra
Sarah Rees (University of Newcastle) How good is Dehn's algorithm?
Chiara Tamburini (Universita Cattolicà del Sacro Cuore) (2,3,7)-generated groups of small rank
Rod Gow (University College Dublin) Algebraic problems suggested by the study of Costas arrays
John Murray (NUI Maynooth) Unusual properties of group algebras in characteristic 2
Rosemary Bailey (Queen Mary, University of London) Another proof of Sylow's theorems
Poster Session
Peter Cameron (Queen Mary, University of London) Derangements
Martyn Quick (University of St Andrews) Groups whose proper quotients are virtually abelian
Gretchen Ostheimer (Hofstra University) Formal languages and the word problem
Shane O'Rourke (Cork Institute of Technology) Isometric actions on R-trees via pretrees
2007
John McDermott (NUI Galway) Some highly transitive groups
Dave Johnson (University of Nottingham) Power series under substitution
Howard Smith (Bucknell University) Countably recognizable classes of groups
Charles Leedham-Green (Queen Mary, University of London) Classifying p-groups by coclass
Bettina Eick (Technische Universität, Braunschweig) On Schur multiplicators and automorphism groups of p-groups
Colva Roney-Dougal (University of St Andrews) Computing with maximal subgroups
Poster Session
Des MacHale (University College Cork) Character degree sums in finite groups
Edmund Robertson (University of St Andrews) The conjecture is true
Peter Campbell (University of Bristol) Double cosets and K-types for p-adic
George Havas (University of Queensland) Perfect palindromic presentations
2008
Dane Flannery (NUI, Galway) Group actions on pairwise combinatorial designs
Kevin Jennings (St Patrick's College, Dublin) Difference sets in abelian groups
Niamh O'Sullivan (Dublin City University) Residual properties of ascending HNN extensions
Colin Campbell (University of St Andrews) Presentations galore
Martin Edjvet (University of Nottingham) Embedding theorems for cyclically presented groups
Armando Martino (UPC Barcelona) A metric on outer space
Poster Session
Paul Flavell (University of Birmingham) A new proof of the solvable signalizer functor theorem
Ana Martinez-Pastor (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia) Some results on products of π-decomposable groups
Maria Dolores Perez-Ramos (Universidad de Valencia) On Sylow normalizers of finite groups
Nik Ruskuc (University of St Andrews) Some combinatorial properties of direct products of groups, semigroups and other algebraic structures
2009
Leonard Soicher (Queen Mary) The joy of GAP packages
Will Dison (University of Bristol) Hugely distorted subgroups
Hannah Coutts (University of St Andrews) Computing normalizers of matrix groups
Bernard Hanzon (UCC) Financial mathematics, linear dynamical systems and orthogonal transformation groups
Tom Laffey (UCD) Solving matrix equations and Galois groups
Richard Weidmann (Heriot-Watt University) Minimal generating sets of Coxeter groups
Rachel Quinlan (NUI Galway) The early days of character theory
Michah Sageev (Technion, Israel) Quasi-isometries and right angled Artin groups
Inna (Korchagina) Capdeboscq (University of Warwick) Finite simple groups with double life
Benjamin Klopsch (Royal Holloway) Representation growth
Poster Session
Aisling Kenny (DCU) Homology of non-crossing partition lattices
James Mitchell (University of St Andrews) Generating the symmetric group and some related semigroups
José Burillo (Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya) Higher dimensional Thompson groups
2010
Ted Hurley (NUI Galway) Some groups and elements of groups with whom we have some acquaintance but about whom we should know much more
Marcus Bishop (NUI Galway) A quiver presentation of the descent algebra of the symmetric group
Anne Henke (Oxford) Brauer diagrams, double cosets and a new Schur algebra
Ian Chiswell (Queen Mary, London) Embedding theorems for tree-free groups
David Lewis (UCD) Automorphisms and involutions of incidence algebras
Paul Hurley (IBM Research, Zurich) Aspects of algebra in signal processing and sparse sampling
Martin Newell (NUI Galway) Subgroups defined by commutator symmetries
Poster Session
Des MacHale (Cork) Some problems in group theory I cannot solve
Max Neunhöffer (St Andrews) Generalisations of small cancellation theory?!
Ken Johnson (Penn State Abington) Applications of group matrices: group presentations, group rings ...
Edmund Robertson (St Andrews) Efficiency -- a survey
2011
Tobias Roßmann (NUI Galway) Irreducibility testing of nilpotent matrix groups
Dave Johnson (Nottingham) The Fibonacci story
Lars Louder (University of Michigan) Nielsen equivalence of generating sets for surface groups
Bettina Eick (TU Braunschweig) p-groups, coclass and Schur multiplicators
Matjaž Konvalinka (University of Ljubljana) Weighted branching rules for the hook lengths
Martin Newell (NUI Galway) Non-dissolvable groups
Everyone present Can we prove something worthwhile? --Mathematics live
Sinéad Lyle (University of East Anglia) Representations of the symmetric groups
Collin Bleak (University of St Andrews) Minimal non-solvable subgoups of Thompson's group F
Enric Ventura (Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya, Manresa) On the difficulty of inverting automorphisms of free groups
2012
Martin Bridson (Oxford) Show me a finite quotient!
Jim Howie (Heriot-Watt) Killing numbers for free products
Conchita Martínez Pérez (Zaragoza) Equivarient Euler classes and posets of finite subgroups for certain solvable groups
Ian Leary (Southampton) Platonic polygonal complexes
Gerhard Röhrle (Bochum) Complete reducibility, geometric invariant theory and separability
Poster Session
Derek Holt (Warwick) Computation in finite matrix groups
Rachel Camina (Cambridge) The Nottingham group -- an introduction and a survey of recent results
Colva Roney-Dougal (St Andrews) Generalisations of small cancellation
Graham Ellis (NUI Galway) Cohomology of some arithmetic groups
2013
Brita Nucinkis (Royal Holloway) Bredon cohomological finiteness conditions for generalisations of Thompson groups
Daniel Groves (Illinois) Recognizing 3-manifold groups using the word problem
Jérôme Lôs (Marseille) Volume entropy for surface groups via dynamics
Jean Gonzales-Meneses (Seville) Thurston meets Garside
Martyn Quick (St Andrews) Generators and relations for Thompson's group V
Jean-Baptiste Gramain (Aberdeen) Murnaghan-Nakayama rules and perfect isometries
Pascal Weil (Bordeaux) On random subgroups of free groups
Sean Cleary (New York) Some metric properties of Houghton's groups
Emil Sköldberg (Galway) Multiplicative structures in (co)homology
2014
Philippe Elbaz-Vincent (Grenoble) The group is trivial
Herbert Gangl (Durham) On the homology of linear groups over imaginary quadratic fields
Michael Tuite (Galway) A brief history of Moonshine
Markus Linckelmann (London) A characterisation of nilpotent blocks
Radha Kessar (London) On transitive block fusion systems
Poster Session
Kevin Hutchinson (Dublin) Hilbert's third problem and scissors congruence groups
Grant Lakeland (Urbana-Champaign) Systoles and Dehn surgery for hyperbolic 3-manifolds
Jacques Thévenaz (Lausanne) From finite sets to group algebras
2015
Nicolas Bergeron (Paris 7) Torsion homology and Bianchi modular forms
Tom De Medts (Ghent University) Jordan algebras and 3-transposition groups
Götz Pfeiffer (Galway) On the Complexity of Multiplication in the Hecke Algebra
Hans Cuypers (Eindhoven) A Geometric Approach to classical Lie Algebras
Alain Valette (Neuchâtel, Switzerland) Box spaces: bridging geometric and asymptotic group theory
Poster Session
Radu Stancu (Picardie - Jules Verne) Evaluations of simple biset functors
Serge Bouc (Picardie - Jules Verne) Representations of finite sets
Peter Kropholler (Southampton) New lines of attack on soluble groups and cohomology
2016
John Burns (NUI Galway) Discrete Tori in Weyl groups and their applications
Shane O'Rourke (Cork Institute of Technology) A combination theorem for affine tree-free groups
Collin Bleak (University of St Andrews) On detecting solubility for finitely generated subgroups of the group PL0 (l)
Bob Oliver (Université Paris 13) Automorphisms and extensions of fusion systems
Ellen Henke (University of Aberdeen) Normal subsystems of fusion systems and partial normal subgroups of localities
Mark Lawson (Heriot-Watt University) Boolean full groups
Poster Session
Nadia Mazza (Lancaster University) On a pro-p group of upper triangular matrices
Peter Symonds (University of Manchester) Endotrivial modules for infinite groups
Francesco de Giovanni (University of Naples) The murdered cardinal: a countably recognizable crime
Said Sidki (Universidade de Brasilia) From the alternating groups to orthogonal groups over Laurent polynomial rings
2017
Conchita Martínez-Pérez (Zaragoza) Homological dimension of solvable groups
Markus Szymik (Trondheim) Homology of the automorphism groups of free nilpotent groups
Derek Holt (Warwick) A new method for verifying the hyperbolicity of finitely presented groups
Lukasz Grabowski (Lancaster) Characterizing amenable groups via measurable variants of the Lovász Local Lemma
Murray Elder (Newcastle, Australia) Solving equations in virtually free groups
Karel Dekimpe (Kortrijk) The R∞ -property for nilpotent and solvable quotients of groups
Juan Souto (Rennes) Surface groups acting on the interval
Damian Osajda (Wroclaw) Group cubization
Martin Newell (NUI Galway) Random thoughts
Péter Pálfy (Alfréd Rényi Institute, Budapest) Elliptic curves and finite p-groups
Eric Swenson (Brigham Young) Two shall be the number of the counting
Arnold Feldman (Franklin & Marshall) System permutability and nilpotent length
2018
Martin Newell (NUI Galway) Opening remarks
John Sheekey (UCD) Semifields and subspaces of matrices over finite fields
Eoin Long (Oxford) Recent results on set intersections
Maura Paterson (Birbeck) Reciprocally-weighted external difference families
Daniel Horsley (Monash) Symmetric coverings and the Bruck-Ryser-Chowla theorem
Bettina Eick (Braunschweig) The groups of order pn q
Götz Pfeiffer (Galway) Bisets and the double Burnside algebra of a finite group
Ronan Egan (Rijeka) Using groups to construct combinatorial structures and codes
Rob Craigen (Manitoba) Signed groups, cocycles, and orthogonal matrices
Ann Trenk (Wellesley) The distinguishing chromatic number and NG-graphs
2019
Angela Carnevale (Galway) Partial equality and word problems
Yiftach Barnea (Royal Holloway, University of London) Survey of new developments in subgroup growth
Marta Morigi (Bologna) On groups with restricted centralizers of w-values
H. Dugald Macpherson (Leeds) Jordan permutation groups: examples, classifications, and applications
Christopher Voll (Bielefeld) Normal subgroup growth of free nilpotent groups under base extension wild or uniform?
Kevin Hutchinson (University College Dublin) Galois Theory and the cyclic quantum dilogarithm
Poster session
James D Mitchell (St Andrews) Uniqueness and non-uniqueness of Polish semigroup topologies
Scott Harper (Bristol) The spread and uniform domination of finite groups
Oihana Garaialde Ocaña (University of the Basque Country) Pro-p groups of positive rank gradient and Hausdorff dimension
2020
Meinholf Geck (University of Stuttgart) What is bad about primes? Some remarks about unipotent classes
Emily Norton (TU Kaiserslautern) Some decomposition matrices of finite classical groups
John Murray (Maynooth University) Clifford theory of 2-Brauer characters
Joanna B Fawcett (Imperial College London) Tree-homogeneous graphs
Matteo Cavaleri (Niccolò Cusano University Rome) Gain graphs, group algebra valued matrices and Fourier transforms
Radhika Gupta (University of Bristol) Uniform exponential growth for CAT cube complexes
Joshua Maglione (Bielefeld University) Isomorphism via derivations
Anitha Thillaisundaram (University of Lincoln) Groups acting on rooted trees of growing degrees
Social gathering: Irish music
2021
Alastair Litterick (University of Essex) Geometric invariant theory and Generating Sets in Finite Simple Groups
Cristina Acciarri (University of Brasilia) A stronger version of Neumann's BFC-theorem
Paula Lins (KU Leuven) Twisted conjugacy for soluble matrix groups
Jesus Hernández Hernández (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México) Conjugacy classes for soluble matrix groups
Caroline Lasseur (RWTH Aachen University/TU Kaiserslautern) On the trivial source character tables of finite groups
Bernardo Rodrigues (University of Pretoria) 2-modular representations of the Conway simple groups as binary codes
Rachel Quinlan (NUI Galway) Pleats, twists and wallpaper: a backlit story
2022
Sahana Balasubramanya (University of Münster) Actions of solvable groups on hyperbolic spaces
Peter Brooksbank (Bucknell University) Computing intersections of classical groups
Marston Conder (University of Auckland) Distinguishing triangle groups by their finite quotients
James Cruickshank (NUI Galway) Symmetric pseudo-triangulations and contact graphs
Viveka Erlandsson (University of Bristol) Dihedral subgroups of lattices in
Brendan Guilfoyle (Munster Technological University) The failure of geometry in dimension 4
Lee Kennard (Syracuse University) Graph systoles and torus representations
Ilaria Mondello (Paris-East Créteil University) Gromov-Hausdorff limits of manifolds with a Kato bound on the Ricci curvature
Lucia Morotti (Leibniz University Hannover) Homogeneous reductions of spin representations
Marco Radeschi (University of Notre Dame) Invariant theory without groups
Krishnan Shankar (University of Oklahoma / NSF) Growth competitions in non-positive curvature
Mima Stanojkovski (RWTH Aachen University / MPI for Mathematics in the Sciences Leipzig) Automorphisms and isomorphism testing of elliptic groups
James B. Wilson (Colorado State University) Counting in Groups by Coordinatizing Geometries
David Wraith (Maynooth University) Intermediate curvatures what are they and why should you care?
2023
Naomi Andrew (University of Oxford) Automorphisms of groups and actions on trees
Javier Aramayona (ICMAT) Asymptotically rigid mapping class groups
Ilaria Castellano (Bielefeld University) Coxeter groups with more than two ends and groups acting on buildings
Leo Margolis (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) Modular Isomorphism Problem - progress, solution and open challenges
Padraig Ó Catháin (Dublin City University) Monomial actions, group cohomology and complex Hadamard matrices
Colva Roney-Dougal (University of St Andrews) Base size and relational complexity
Tobias Rossmann (University of Galway) Orbits of unipotent groups: tame vs wild
Yuri Santos Rego (Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg) Navigating the galaxy of Coxeter groups
Gerald Williams (University of Essex) Generalized polygons and star graphs of cyclic presentations of groups
Compiled by Colin M Campbell