Special Theme Program on Group Theory, Combinatorics and Computation at The University of Western Australia in Perth, 5-16 January, 2009.

In honour of

Professor Cheryl Praeger's

60th Birthday.

Invited Speakers

Rosemary Bailey (Queen Mary, University of London, UK),

Peter Cameron (Queen Mary, University of London, UK),

Marston Conder (University of Auckland, NZ),

Marcel Herzog (Tel-Aviv University, Israel),

Kathy Horadam (RMIT, Aus),

Sasha Ivanov (Imperial College London, UK),

William Kantor (University of Oregon, USA),

Cai Heng Li (UWA, Aus),

Charles Leedham-Green (Queen Mary, University of London, UK),

Martin Liebeck (Imperial College London, UK),

Brendan McKay (ANU, Aus),

Peter Neumann (Queen's College, University of Oxford, UK),

Eamonn O'Brien (University of Auckland, NZ),

Tim Penttila (Colorado State University, USA),

Jan Saxl (University of Cambridge, UK),

Akos Seress (Ohio State University, USA).

Charles Sims (Rutgers University, USA) (cancelled)

Format of the proposed programme

The special theme programme will be broken down into two weeks. Participants may attend either week or both.

Week 1:

An international conference in honour of Professor Praeger's 60th birthday. It will contain invited 1 hour talks and short contributed talks by participants.

Week 2:

An informal week of short courses, workshops and problem sessions, especially beneficial to early career researchers and postgraduate students.

Organising committee

John Bamberg (Ghent University)
Michael Giudici (UWA)
Cai Heng Li (UWA)
Alice Niemeyer (UWA)
Tim Penttila (Colorado State University)
Gordon Royle (UWA)