Schedule and abstracts

The conference will begin at 11.15am on Monday 24th June, and end at 12.45pm on Wednesday 26th June. All talks will be held in room MS.01, on the ground floor of the Zeeman building. The programme is as follows.

Monday June 24th

10.30-11.15  Morning tea

11.15-12.00  Tim Burness. The regularity number of a finite group and other base-related invariants.

12.00-12.45  Cheryl Praeger. A collegial friendship across the globe: group actions from Oxford to Warwick and Perth.

12.45-14.15  Lunch 

14.15-15.00  William Kantor, Some groups of order n^3.

15.00-15.45  Alex Evetts. Twisted conjugacy growth of virtually nilpotent groups.

15.45-16.30  Afternoon tea

16.30-17.15  Tara Macalister Brough. Preserving self-similarity in free products of automaton semigroups.

17.15-      Wine reception + poster session

Tuesday 25th June

09.00-09.45  Susan Hermiller. Subgroups of the group of dyadic piecewise linear homeomorphisms of the real line.

09.45-10.30  TBC.

10.30-11.15  Morning tea

11.15-12.00  Marston Conder.  Some personal and professional perspectives on Derek Holt and his achievements.

12.00-12.45  Sarah Rees. Title TBC.

12.45-14.15  Lunch 

14.15-15.00  David Craven. Title TBC. 

15.00-15.45  Charles Leedham-Green. Title TBC.

15.45-16.30  Afternoon tea

16.30-17.15  John Cannon. Title TBC.

19.00-      Dinner 

Wednesday June 26th

09.00-09.45  Yago Antolin. Title TBC. 

09.45-10.30  Bettina Eick.  Computing with polycyclic groups: new developments and open problems.

10.30-11.15  Morning tea

11.15-12.00  Saul Schleimer. Solving the word problem in the mapping class group in quasi-linear time.   

12.00-12.45  Colva Roney-Dougal. Title TBC.