First Week (5th-9th January)The conference will begin on Monday morning and it is anticipated that there will be talks until late on Friday afternoon. Conference participants are invited to give a 20 minute contributed talk. More specific details of the program will appear here closer to the date. There will be a conference excursion on Wednesday afternoon (7th January) and a conference dinner on Thursday evening (8th January). The excursion will be a river cruise and afternoon tea. The excursion, conference dinner and lunches on each of the five days are included in the registration fee. |
Speaker | Title |
| Rosemary Bailey | Properties of graphs of optimal block designs |
| Peter Cameron |
Synchronization and homomorphisms |
| Marston Conder | Recent progress in the study of regular maps on surfaces |
| Marcel Herzog | A general measuring argument for finite permutation groups |
| Kathy Horadam | Orbiting round the Five-fold Constellation |
| Sasha Ivanov |
An explicit form of Sakuma's theorem |
| William Kantor |
Presentations of finite simple groups |
| Cai Heng Li | Finite groups which have a factorisation, and applications |
| Charles Leedham-Green | The matrix group recognition project |
| Martin Liebeck |
The Ore Conjecture |
| Brendan McKay | Recursive structure of planar graph classes |
| Peter Neumann | Permutation groups then and now |
| Eamonn O'Brien | Effective algorithms for the special linear group |
| Tim Penttila | Finite generalised quadrangles |
| Jan Saxl | Some results on distance transitive graphs, old and not so old |
| Akos Seress |
Polynomial-time theory of matrix groups |
| Charles Sims | Computational Group Theory 101 |