Aim:
This conference, the eighth in the series of Groups St Andrews
Conferences, will be organised along similar lines to previous events
in this series. For 2009 the conference returns to its usual two-week
format.
| Principal Speakers: | |
| Gerhard Hiss | (RWTH, Aachen, Germany) |
| Volodymyr Nekrashevych | (Texas A&M, Texas, USA) |
| Nikolay Nikolov | (Imperial College, London) |
| Eamonn O'Brien | (Auckland, New Zealand) |
| Mark Sapir | (Vanderbilt, Nashville, USA) |
Programme:
The speakers above have kindly agreed to give short courses of
lectures in the first week of the conference. In the second week of
the conference there will be three theme days, an ‘Engel groups
day’, a day to celebrate the birthdays of John Cannon and Derek
Holt, and a ‘B.H. Neumann day’. In addition there will be a
programme of one hour invited lectures and short research
presentations.
Topics:
The conference aims to cover all aspects of group theory. The short
lecture courses are intended to be accessible to postgraduate
students, postdoctoral fellows, and researchers in all areas of group
theory.
Accommodation:
This is booked at the University of Bath. It is family friendly. More
details later.
Scientific Organising Committee:
Colin Campbell (St Andrews), Martyn Quick (St Andrews), Edmund
Robertson (St Andrews), Colva Roney-Dougal (St Andrews), Geoff Smith
(Bath), Gunnar Traustason (Bath).
A list of people planning to attend the conference is available here.
Further information will be available in due course.
email: gps2009
mcs.st-and.ac.uk
Web site: http://www.groupsstandrews.org