Groups and Symmetries:
A conference in celebration of Rob Curtis' 60th birthday
Thursday 20th–Saturday 22nd September 2007
Groups and Symmetries:A conference in celebration of Rob Curtis' 60th birthdayThursday 20th–Saturday 22nd September 2007
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Programme
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| Thursday | ||
| 12:00–14:00 | Registration and lunch | |
| 14:00–15:00 | Paul Flavell | A new proof of the Solvable Signalizer Functor Theorem |
| 15:00–16:00 | Johannes Siemons | On a Conjecture of Foulkes |
| 16:00–16:30 | Tea | |
| 16:30–17:30 | Chiara Tamburini | Carter subgroups in finite groups |
| Friday | ||
| 9:30–10:30 | Francois Zara | Some rank 3 affine complex reflection groups |
| 10:30–11:00 | Tea | |
| 11:00–12:00 | Wilhelm Plesken | Group Representations from Presentations via Commutative Algebra |
| 12:00–14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00–15:00 | Arjeh Cohen | Locally affine geometries related to groups of type G2 |
| 15:00–16:00 | Sasha Ivanov | Automorphisms of the Griess algebra |
| 16:00–16:30 | Tea | |
| 16:30–17:30 | Rob Wilson | 248 and all that |
| 18:30 for 19:00 | Conference dinner | |
| Saturday | ||
| 10:00–11:00 | John Bray | Maximal Subgroups of Classical Groups |
| 11:00–11:30 | Tea | |
| 11:30–12:30 | Richard Weiss | Locally Finite Affine Buildings |
| 12:30– | Lunch |
All talks will be held in Lecture Room A in the Watson Building, which houses the School
of Mathematics. Registration will be in the Maths Learning Centre on the first floor of
the Watson building. Tea will be served in the Maths Learning Centre. The conference dinner will
be held in the Astor Suite on the third floor of Staff House.
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| Organizers: Simon Goodwin, Corneliu Hoffman, Chris Parker and Rebecca Waldecker. |
Supported by the London Mathematical Society 
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