One of the theme days of Groups St Andrews 2009 in Bath will be a day
dedicated to the life and work of B H Neumann. This will be on Monday
of the second week of the conference. The timetable for this
special day is below. All timings and titles are subject to change.
| Session 1: | |
| 09.15 Peter Neumann |
"Some classic and nearly classic problems
on varieties of groups" |
| 10.15 Michael Vaughan-Lee
| "The Hughes Problem" |
| 11.45 Cheryl Praeger |
Bernhard Neumann: one hundred years |
| Session 2: | |
| 14.00 Waldemar Holubowski |
"On free groups in the variety generated by a finite group" |
| 14.30 Francesco Russo |
"A different formulation of a result of B.H. Neumann" |
| 15.00 Luise-Charlotte Kappe |
"Finite coverings: a journey through groups, loops, rings and semigroups" |
| Session 3: | |
| 16.00 Walter Neumann |
"Quasi-isometry of 3-manifold groups" |
| 17.00 Gilbert Baumslag |
Remembering Bernhard Neumann |
