London Algebra Colloquium

Imperial College London   Queen Mary, University of London

Colloquia at Queen Mary, University of London, October–December 2010


The Colloquium this term takes place in Room 103, Mathematics Building, at Queen Mary at 4:45pm. Tea/coffee might (or might not) be available beforehand from 4:15pm in Room 102.

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 programme for this term was as follows:

7th October                        Robert T. Curtis (Birmingham)
The Rudvalis group from the geometry of L4(2)
 
14th October Anton Evseev (Queen Mary)
The McKay conjecture and Brauer’s induction theorem
 
21st October Mark Wildon (Royal Holloway)
Commuting conjugacy classes: an overview
 
28th October Peter J. Cameron (Queen Mary)
The automorphism groups of the random graph and its relatives
 
4th November David A. Craven (Oxford)
Units and the Unit Conjecture
 
11th November Paul J. Flavell (Birmingham)
A new proof of the Nonsolvable Signalizer Functor Theorem
 
18th November Peter M. Neumann (Oxford)
The triple product property in finite groups
 
25th November Derek F. Holt (Warwick)
Algorithms for and numbers of generators of finite matrix groups
 
2nd December Jonathan I. Hall (Michigan State)
Moufang loops and groups with triality are essentially the same thing
 
9th December
No colloquium
 
16th December Bertram A. F. Wehrfritz (Queen Mary)
Matrices and Soluble Groups

John N. Bray
10th January 2011