Current UK time:
Wednesday 18/06/25
Watson Building, LRA
10:00-10:30 Registration
10:30-11:00 Coffee-break
11:00-11:15 Official opening and welcoming remarks, Prof. Marika Taylor, Head of the College of Engineering and Physical Sciences
11:15-12:00 Mario Mainardis, (2B, 3A, 5A)-subalgebras of the Griess algebra with alternating Miyamoto group
12:00-12:45 Clara Franchi (zoom), 2-generated axial algebras of Monster type
12:45-14:00 Lunch
14:00-14:45 Yoav Segev (zoom), Some identities between two primitive axes of type half
14:45-15:30 Louis Rowen (zoom), Idempotental axial identities
15:30-16:00 Coffee-break
16:00-16:45 Dmitrii Pasechnik (zoom), Sum of squares polynomial certificates - 'small' cases
16:45-17:30 Vladimir Tkachev, Hsiang algebras and Steiner triple systems
Thursday 19/06/25
Watson Building, B16
9:00-9:45 Tom De Medts, 3876
9:45-10:30 Hans Cuypers (zoom), On the Lie and Jordan algebras of quasi-Clifford algebras
10:30-11:00 Coffee-break
11:00-11:45 Sasha Ivanov, Ivanov-Shpectorov geometry for O’Nan group: 40 years on
11:45-12:30 Bernardo Rodrigues (zoom), Radicals in flip subalgebras of Matsuo algebras
12:30-13:45 Lunch
Watson Building, LRA
13:45-14:30 Ellen Henke (zoom), Fusion systems, localities and the classification of finite simple groups
14:30-15:15 Michael Turner, Almost quasisimple 6-transposition groups
15:15-16:00 Conference Photo and Coffee-break
16:00-16:45 Ralf Köhl (zoom), Phan's theorems, filtrations of buildings, and finiteness properties of lattices in Lie groups in positive characteristic
16:45-17:30 Jon Hall, Simply laced Lie algebras and extraspecial groups
Virtual Bar
7pm Conference Dinner - The Plough, Harborne
Friday 20/06/25
Watson Building, LRA
9:00-9:45 Tatsuro Ito (zoom), The Dunkl-Watanabe duality
9:45-10:30 Ron Solomon, Update on the CGLSS Project
10:30-11:00 Coffee-break
11:00-11:45 Inna Capdeboscq, TBA
11:45-12-30 Rebecca Waldecker (zoom), Finite groups that act with low fixity
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-14:45 Jari Desmet, Primitive axial algebras of Jordan type half: structure and examples
14:45-15:30 Bob Oliver, Realizability of fusion systems over discrete p-toral groups
15:30 closing of the conference
Bar