GROUP THEORY AND ITS APPLICATIONS

Manchester-Birmingham-Imperial                                                                                          

Group Theory and its Applications is an LMS joint research group funded by a scheme 3 grant, MIMS and the University of Birmingham. The organisers are Charles Eaton, Chris Parker and Alexander Ivanov.

 There will be 4 meetings in the year 2004-2005, with scope the entire range of group theory and its neighbours. There will be a strong emphasis on postgraduate education and collaboration between the various disciplines of group theory.

NEXT MEETING 9th DECEMBER at IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON.

Programme for meeting on 9th December 2005:

Location: Department of Mathematics, Huxley Building, Imperial College London

12:00 Tea and biscuits (Room 549, Huxley)

13:00 Peter Fleischmann (Kent) Invariant Theory of Groups (Room 341, Huxley)

12:00 Tea break (Room 549, Huxley)

15:00 Martin Bridson (Imperial) Finitely presented groups with restricted finite quotients (Room 342, Huxley)

16:15 Peter Cameron  (Queen Mary) Permutation groups, enumeration, and graded algebras (Room 342, Huxley)

Some funding is available for travel expenses, with priority given to postgraduate students. Please contact Charles Eaton if you have any enquiries.

Programme for meeting on 19th October 2005:

Location: School of Mathematics, University of Birmingham

This meeting is aimed primarily at postgraduate students. The speakers will aim their talks at first year postgraduates. This is an ideal opportunity for new postgraduate students to meet other postgraduates from other institutions.

14:00  Rachel Camina (University of Cambridge) A survey of Pro-p groups

15:00 Joseph Chuang (University of Bristol) Modular representations of symmetric groups

16:30 Derek Holt (University of Warwick) Computation in finite permutation and matrix groups

Some funding is available for travel expenses, with priority given to postgraduate students. Please contact Charles Eaton if you have any enquiries.

Programme for meeting on 12th February 2005:

Location: School of Mathematics, University of Manchester

Lectures will take place in room M12 of the MSS building (formerly known as the UMIST mathematics department)

11:00--11:30  Arrival, coffee - common room

11:30--12:30  Professor Roger Carter (Warwick) Representations of
Reductive Groups over p-adic Fields, following Lusztig

14:00--15:00 Michael Bate (Birmingham) G-complete reducibility,
geometric invariant theory and buildings

15:15--16:15 Professor Gerhard Hiss (Aachen) On Donovan's conjecture
for finite classical groups

Some funding is available for travel expenses, with priority given to postgraduate students. Please contact Charles Eaton if you have any enquiries.

Programme for meeting on 13th November 2004:

Location: School of Mathematics, University of Birmingham

Lectures will take place in LRA (on the ground floor)

11:00--11:30  Arrival, coffee - common room

11:30--12:30  Professor Linus Kramer (Darmstadt) Groups, buildings, and
some of their uses

14:00--15:00 Matthew Craven (Manchester) The Implementation of a Genetic Algorithm over Partially
Commutative Groups

15:15--16:15 Professor Richard Weiss (Tufts) Exceptional buildings and
related non-associative algebras

Some funding is available for travel expenses, with priority given to postgraduate students. Please contact Chris Parker if you have any enquiries.

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