Workshop Programme
for period 27-29 May
Group Theory, Geometry and Representation Theory: Abel Prize 2008
27-29 May
Timetable
| Wednesday 27 May | ||
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee | ALT |
| 11:00-11:10 | ALT | |
| Opening | Sem 1 | |
| 11:10-12:10 | Aschbacher, M (CALTECH) | ALT |
| N-groups, 3' groups and fusion systems | Sem 1 | |
| 14:00-15:00 | Segal, D (Oxford) | ALT |
| CFSG and group theory | Sem 1 | |
| 15:15-16:15 | Caprace, PE (Louvain ) | ALT |
| Is the non-discrete side of locally compact groups more tractable? | Sem 1 | |
| 16:15-16:45 | Tea | ALT |
| 17:00-18:00 | Rouquier, R (Oxford) | ALT |
| Braid groups and representations of symmetric groups | Sem 1 | |
| Thursday 28 May | ||
| 09:30-10:30 | Capdeboscq, I (Warwick) | ALT |
| Finite simple groups of "medium size" | Sem 1 | |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee | ALT |
| 11:00-12:00 | Malle, G (Kaiserslautern) | ALT |
| Element orders and Sylow structure | Sem 1 | |
| 14:00-15:00 | Liebeck, M (Imperial College) | ALT |
| Density of character degrees | Sem 1 | |
| 15:15-16:15 | Serre, JP (College de France) | ALT |
| The quaquaversal group | Sem 1 | |
| 16:15-16:45 | Tea | ALT |
| 17:00-18:00 | Guralnick, R (Southern California) | ALT |
| Permutation groups and coverings of curves | Sem 1 | |
| Friday 29 May | ||
| 09:30-10:30 | Tiep, PH (Arizona) | ALT |
| Brauer height zero conjecture for 2-blocks of maximal defect | Sem 1 | |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee | ALT |
| 11:00-12:00 | Thompson, JG (Cambridge and Florida) | ALT |
| An action of SL(2,Z) on the space of Dirichlet series, and some associated computations | Sem 1 | |
| 12:00-13:00 | Broue, M (Institut Henri Poincaré ) | ALT |
| Pseudo reductive groups over GF(x) | Sem 1 | |
| Other Seminars |
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Seminars in the University National and International Scientific Research Meetings |