Groups St Andrews 1997 in Bath *First* iteration of Conference Schedule: Parallel sessions are labelled PAB where A = day, B = 1 or 2. The middle Sunday is not a conference day and does not count for these purposes. Non-theme day parallel sessions are 3 or 4 streams wide. Theme day parallel streams are 2 wide. Parallel talks last 25 minutes. Plenary talks last 55 minutes or 1 hour. The contents of parallel sessions will be organized in due course in the Second Iteration. --------------------------------------------------------------- Courses (week 1): Laszlo Babai `statistical methods in algorithms for finite groups' Martin Bridson `Non-positive curvature in group theory' Chris Brookes `Group theoretic applications of non-commutative toric geometry' Cheryl Praeger `Matrix groups, algorithms and probability' Aner Shalev `Groups and probability' ------------------------------------------------------ Sunday July 27 Morning plenaries: Praeger 1 Babai 1 Shalev 1 Lunch Parallels: P11 (90 mins) Tea P12 (60 mins) Evening plenary: Bridson 1 __________________________________ Monday July 28 Morning plenaries: Praeger 2 Brookes 1 Bridson 2 Lunch Parallels: P21 (90 mins) Tea Shalev 2 Evening plenary: Kharlampovich: Description of finitely generated fully residually free groups __________________________________ Tuesday July 29 Morning plenaries: Praeger 3 Brookes 2 Shalev 3 Lunch Parallels: P31 (90 mins) Tea P32 (60 mins) No evening plenary (University Hall not ours) Scope for extra parallel sessions if necessary Evening civic torchlit tour of the Roman Baths (for all) ___________________________________ Wednesday July 30 Morning plenaries: Brookes 3 Bridson 3 Babai 2 Lunch Afternoon bus tour; Wye Valley and Wales. Evening Conference Banquet ____________________________________ Thursday July 31 Morning plenaries: Bridson 4 Babai 3 Shalev 4 Lunch Parallels: P51 (90 mins) Tea P52 (60 mins) Evening plenary: Brookes 4 19:00 Evening mystery social event. Bring a camera. Will last approximately 30 minutes -- 1 hour. Details to be announced at the dinner the previous evening. __________________________________ Friday August 1 Morning plenaries: Praeger 4 Beals: Towards polynomial time algorithms for matrix groups Babai 4 Lunch Parallels: P61 (90 mins) Tea P62 (60 mins) Evening plenary: Shalev 5 __________________________________ Saturday August 2nd: P71 Coffee P72 Lunch Playtime ---------------------------------- Sunday August 3rd Conference closed. Optional bus trip (costs extra) Possibly Stonehenge and the South Coast Various colective activities planned -- or wander off on your own. ---------------------------------- Monday August 4th (Burnside Day) Morning plenaries: Katzarkov: Projective surfaces, symplectic fourfolds and Burnside groups Ol'shanskii: Centralisers and locally finite subgroups in free Burnside groups of large even exponents Grigorchuk: On presentations of some torsion groups. Lunch Parallels: Sushchanskii Traustason McCammond TBA Khukro Riley Khukro: Some generalizations of the Restricted Burnside Problem McCammond: A small cancellation approach to the Burnside groups Riley: Semigroup laws and the Engel condition in groups, rings and Lie algebras Sushchanskii: New constructions of 2-generated infinite $\pi$-groups Traustason: On 4-Engel groups and related topics Tea Maj TBA Storozev Derakhshan Derakhshan: TBA Maj: Semigroup identities and Engel groups Storozhev: On some problems of Burnside type in varieties of groups Evening plenary: Peter Neumann: TBA Evening entertainment (provisional): Scenes from the novels of Jane Austen -- by the University Lake. Professional actors. Under negotiation. Will happen with probability 0.5. __________________________________ Tuesday August 5th Morning plenaries: Groves: Finitely presented soluble Lie algebras Bryant: Lie powers of representations of finite groups Caranti: Graded Lie algebras related to the Nottingham group and to p-groups of maximal class Lunch Parallels: P91 (90 mins) Tea P92 (60 mins) No evening plenary Evening cricket match (weather permitting) __________________________________ Wednesday August 6th Morning plenaries: Ruskuc: Groups, semigroups and presentations Linton: Recent Developments in Computational Algebra Pahlings: Checking Dade's Conjectures Lunch Bus tours: Wells, Glastonbury and Cheddar Optional second dinner (costs extra; pay at conference) __________________________________ Thursday August 7th (Lyndon day) Morning plenaries: Miller: Asphericity and decision problems Guba: On the Dehn function of R Thompson's group Schupp: TBA Lunch Parallels: (90 mins) Hsu Gaglione Wise Lipschutz Remeslennikov Fine Fine: The generalised triangle groups Gaglione: Residually free groups and Lyndon rings Hsu: A non-positively curved non-residually finite square of small finite groups Lipschutz: Bi-tractable conjugacy problems in groups Remeslennikov: Algebraic geometry over groups close to free groups Wise: The residual finiteness of negatively curved polygons of finite groups Tea Two final plenaries: Pride: The geometry of group extensions Ol'shanskii: On subgroup distortion __________________________________ Friday August 8th Vera Lopez: On p-groups of maximal class Palfy: On the character degree graph of solvable groups Seress: Black box classical groups Lunch Parallels P 12,1 (90 mins) Tea Plenary: Derek Robinson: Groups whose automorphisms are virtually trivial ---------------------------------- See you in 2001 -- but where? 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