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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