London Algebra Colloquium

Imperial College London   Queen Mary, University of London

Colloquia at Imperial College London, January–June 2011


For this period the London Algebra Colloquium was held in Imperial College London. The time was Thursdays at 4:45pm as usual, in lecture room 130. We met for tea at 4pm in the common room (Huxley 548).

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 (these terms) was as follows:

20th January                        Dan Segal (Oxford)
Generators and commutators in finite groups, and profinite applications
 
27th January Pierre-Emmanuel Caprace (Louvain)
Simple locally compact groups and branching
 
3rd February Ashot Minasyan (Southampton)
Constructing non-hereditarily conjugacy separable groups
 
10th February Corneliu Hoffman (Birmingham)
Classifying amalgams of linear groups and generalizations
 
17th February No colloquium
 
24th February Martin Kassabov (Southampton)
Bounding the residual finiteness of free groups
 
3rd March Balazs Szegedy (Toronto)
Gowers norms and higher order Fourier analysis
 
10th March Miklós Abért (Budapest)
Groups and graph limits
 
17th March Nick Gill (Open University)
Is Babai afraid of spiders?
 
24th March Dimitri Leemans (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
Regular and Chirally Regular Abstract Polytopes
 
Easter break
 
5th May Aner Shalev (Jerusalem)
Generation, random generation, and the Chebotarev invariant of finite groups
 
12th May Jan Saxl (Cambridge)
Variations on themes of Burnside
 
19th May and 26th May No colloquia
 
2nd June Lukasz Grabowski (Imperial)
Generalization of the word problem and products of lamplighters
 
30th June Ákos Seress (Ohio State)
Computations of centralizers of involutions

John N. Bray
13th September 2011