The timetable for the afternoon will be:
| 12.30-1.30 | Buffet lunch in the Mathematics Common Room |
| 1.30-1.45 | Welcome and Introduction |
| 1.45-2.45 | Professor B. A. F. Wehrfritz, Queen Mary, University of London |
| The early work of KWG on abstract groups, 1952-1973 | |
| 2.45-3.45 | Professor P. H. Kropholler, University of Glasgow |
| Group actions on finite dimensional spaces and KG-modules | |
| 3.45-4.15 | Tea in the Mathematics Common Room |
| 4.15-5.15 | Professor A. R. Weiss, University of Alberta |
| Integral representations and Galois modules in arithmetic |
The subsequent celebration will be held in the Octagon in the Queen's Building starting at 5.45 pm. For those not attending the mathematical lectures, tea will be served in the Octagon from 5.15. Refreshments will be served in the Octagon after the conclusion of the celebration at approximately 7.00pm.
Directions to Queen Mary are available here or here.
Note: It would be helpful if those planning to attend all or part of the event would notify Karen Zirngast (email: K.Zirngast@qmul.ac.uk) by Thursday 6 March which parts of the meeting they expect to attend.
Here is a document compiled by Don Collins. Copies of this document will be available at the afternoon session.
Karl was a lifelong supporter of the London Algebra Colloquium. His first talk to the Colloquium was meeting number 46, on 26 November 1953, with the title Residual properties of groups; the last was number 1141, on 16 November 2006, with the title The generation gap of free products. (Full details of the Colloquium are available here.)
A photograph from the Oberwolfach collection is here.
Here is an obituary from The Independent, Tuesday, 8 January 2008.
Peter J. Cameron
P.J.Cameron@qmul.ac.uk
5 March 2008