The conference will begin at 11.00am 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
10.30-11.00 Morning tea
11.00-11.15 Welcome address from WMI Head of Department James Robinson.
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 Gareth Tracey. Elements contained in a unique maximal subgroup of a finite group.
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. A regular odyssey.
12.45-14.15 Lunch
14.15-15.00 David Craven. Computing in (large) exceptional groups.
15.00-15.45 Charles Leedham-Green. Computing the intersection of matrix groups over a finite field.
15.45-16.30 Afternoon tea
16.30-17.15 Eamonn O'Brien. Algorithms for finite groups: Derek's contributions to CGT.
19.00- Dinner
Wednesday June 26th
09.00-09.45 Yago Antolin. The falsification by fellow traveller property.
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. Polynomial-time normalisers for primitive groups.