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

In honour of

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)

Contact: gcc09@maths.uwa.edu.au

Sponsors