London Algebra Colloquium

Imperial College London   Queen Mary, University of London

Colloquia at Queen Mary, University of London, October–December 2008

The Colloquium this term take place in room G2, Mathematics Building, at Queen Mary at 4:45pm. Tea is available beforehand from 4:15pm in room 102. I expect (hope) to have talks most weeks from 2nd October till 11th/4th December, with a gap on 4th/11th December.

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

The list of confirmed speakers is as follows:

1st October LMS Groups and Applications triangle meeting
(not part of London Algebra Colloquium series)
 
2nd October                        Colva M. Roney-Dougal (St Andrews)
Maximal subgroups of simple groups: constructions and classifications
 
9th October Peter J. Cameron (Queen Mary)
Synchronization and permutation groups
 
16th October Sergey Shpectorov (Birmingham)
From the Thompson group to the hyperplanes in a dual polar space
 
23rd October Tim Burness (Southampton)
Counting prime order subgroups of finite groups
 
30th October Angus J. Macintyre (Queen Mary)
Comparing the classical and the Zil’ber exponential fields
 
6th November Peter J. Rowley (Manchester)
Diameter of the Monster Graph
 
13th November Matthew Fayers (Queen Mary)
Irreducible Specht modules for Iwahori–Hecke algebras of type A—revisited
 
20th November Jan E. Grabowski (Oxford)
Cluster algebras, partial flag varieties and quantum groups
 
27th November Sinéad Lyle (East Anglia)
Blocks of Ariki–Koike algebras
 
4th December No seminar
 
11th December Alan R. Camina (East Anglia)
Autmorphism groups of linear spaces

John N. Bray
19th December 2008