London Algebra Colloquium

Imperial College London   Queen Mary, University of London

Colloquia at Queen Mary, University of London, September–December 2011


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:

29th September                        Eamonn A. O’Brien (Auckland)
A new model for computation with matrix groups
 
6th October Charles R. Leedham-Green (Queen Mary)
Can we classify p-groups?
 
13th October Ben Fairbairn (Birkbeck)
Beauville surfaces, structures and groups
 
20th October Matthew Fayers (Queen Mary)
Decomposable Specht modules
 
27th October Evgeny I. Khukhro (Novosibirsk/Nottingham)
Finite groups admitting a Frobenius group of automorphisms with fixed-point-free kernel
 
3rd November Joanna B. Fawcett (Cambridge)
Bases of primitive diagonal groups
 
10th November No seminar
 
17th November, to start at 4:20 pm Sergey Shpectorov (Birmingham)
Griess-type algebras
 
17th November, to start at ~5:25 pm Hans Cuypers (Eindhoven)
Geometric characterizations of symplectic groups, modules and Lie algebras
 
24th November Sarah Astill (Bristol)
Fixed-point-free automorphisms of p-groups
 
1st December Robert A. Wilson (Queen Mary)
Quaternionic quaternions and the compact real form of E7
 
8th December No seminar
 
15th December No seminar

John N. Bray
10th January 2012