London Algebra Colloquium

Imperial College London   Queen Mary, University of London

Colloquia at Queen Mary, University of London, September–December 2007

It is with great regret that we announce that Karl Gruenberg died of a heart attack on 10th October 2007. Karl was a mainstay of the London Algebra Colloquium for very many years. His first Colloquium talk was number 46, on 26th November 1953, with the title Residual properties of groups; the last was number 1141, on 16th November 2006, with the title The generation gap of free products. This span of over 50 years is surely unique for this or any other colloquium series!
The Colloquium that term normally took place in room G2, Mathematics Building, at Queen Mary at 4:45pm. Tea was available beforehand from 4:15pm in room 102. The talk on 4 October was at 4:05pm. There was no seminar on 6 December.

Details of (all) previous colloquia can be found here.
The next term’s seminars can also be found here.

27 September Rachel D. Camina (Cambridge)
Schemes and the IP-graph
 
4 October at 4:05pm Manfred Droste (Leipzig)
Permutation groups, groups of measure-preserving or ergodic transformations and the Bergman property
 
11 October Kay Magaard (Birmingham)
Constructive recognition of exceptional groups
 
18 October Ivan Tomašić (Queen Mary)
From the arithmetic of difference varieties to dynamical systems
 
25 October Gareth A. Jones (Southampton)
Generalised Fermat curves: their automorphism groups and fields of definition
 
1 November H. Dugald Macpherson (Leeds)
Definability in algebraically closed valued fields
 
8 November William J. Dison (Imperial)
An Isoperimetric Function for Bestvina–Brady Groups
 
15 November Robert T. Curtis (Birmingham)
A survey of the symmetric generation of groups
 
22 November Michael E. Bate (Oxford)
Notions of Complete Reducibility for Algebraic Groups
 
29 November Kevin R. McGerty (Imperial)
Representations of the symmetric group and the Steinberg variety
 
6 December No seminar
 
13 December Simon P. Norton (Cambridge)
The Monster and the Four Colour Theorem

John N. Bray
4th April 2008