Below is the programme of the conference. You can also access a pdf version here, and abstracts for all talks here.
HEILBRONN DAY
Groups and their Representations
Monday, 2nd September 2013
11.30 -- 12.30 George Glauberman
The Feit-Thompson Odd Order Theorem Fifty Years Later
12.30 Buffet lunch on Atrium Bridge
2 -- 3pm Bob Oliver
Local equivalences between finite Lie groups
3 -- 4pm Meinolf Geck
Involutions in finite Coxeter groups
4.30 -- 5.30pm Bob Guralnick
Fixed Points Spaces
5.30pm Wine reception on Atrium Bridge
BRAUER’S PROBLEMS -- 50 YEARS ON
Tuesday, 3rd September 2013
9.15 -- 10.15am David Benson
Matrix factorisations and modular representations of elementary abelian p-groups
10.15 -- 10.45am Erwan Biland
Brauer-friendly modules and slash functors
11.15 -- 12.15 Gabriel Navarro
One character/One degree problems
2.15 -- 2.45pm Alexandre Turull
Recent progress on Brauer's Problem 27
2.50 -- 3.20pm Shigeo Koshitani
A finite group whose first Cartan invariant is two in characteristic two
3.30 -- 4pm Eugenio Giannelli
On the decomposition numbers of the symmetric group
4.30 -- 5.30pm Gunter Malle
Local-global conjectures: Recent progress and open questions
Wednesday, 4rd September 2013
9.15 -- 10.15am John Thompson
Some personal memories of Richard Brauer
10.45 -- 11.45am Michael Collins
Primitive groups, the Leech lattice, and a curious amalgam
12.00 EXCURSION TO CASTLETON
Leaving from Alan Turing Building. A packed lunch will be provided. Choice of return times approx. 7:30pm or 9pm.
Thursday, 5th September 2013
9.15 -- 10.15am David Craven
The Brauer trees of finite groups
10.15 -- 10.45am Alex Bartel
G-sets vs rational representations
11.15 -- 12.15 Karin Erdmann
Algebras constructed from p-subgroups
2 -- 2.30pm John Murray
Vertices of Modules and Symplectic Geometry
2.35 -- 3.05pm Britta Späth
A new version of Dade’s Conjecture
3.10 -- 3.40pm Benjamin Sambale
On the Brauer-Feit bound for abelian defect groups
4.30 -- 5.30pm Raphaël Rouquier
Beyond Brauer trees
7pm for 7:30pm CONFERENCE DINNER at Christie's Bistro
Friday, 6th September 2013
9.15 -- 10.15am Burkhard Külshammer
On 2-blocks with abelian defect groups
10.15 -- 10.45am Anupam Singh
Strongly real classes in finite unitary groups
11.15 -- 11.45am Jay Taylor
Decomposing Generalised Gelfand--Graev Representations (GGGRs)
11.45 -- 12.15 Hung P. Tong Viet
Brauer's Problem 2 : Complex group algebras of simple groups