Program

Wednesday, July 2, 2014

time & placeSpeakertitle
9.20-9.25
Opening
9.30-10.15
Jonathan Hall Point-line presentations
10.20-10.45
Sacha Ivanov P-subgeometries in tilde geometries
Coffee and tea
11.15-11.40
Bruce Cooperstein Unitary Subspaces of Unitary Grassmannians
11.50-12.35
Tom De Medts Bergmann operators in linear algebraic groups of relative rank one
Lunch
14.00-14.45
Antonio Pasini A few Remarks on Hyperplanes of Projective Grassmannians
14.55-15.10
Daniel Frohardt Almost Simple Groups of Genus Zero
15.15-15.30
John van Bon Locally s-transitive graphs
15.35-15.50
Jeroen Schillewaert The geometries of the Freudenthal-Tits magic square
15.55-16.10
Patrick Wegener Transitive Hurwitz action on factorizations of Coxeter elements
Coffee and tea
16.30-17.15
Sergey Shpectorov title

Program

Thursday, July 3, 2014

time & placeSpeakertitle
9.30-10.15
Gabor Ivanyos Modules, algebras and alternating polarities in matrix completion problems
10.20-10.45
Don Taylor Computing in Twisted Groups of Lie Type
Coffee and tea
11.15-11.40
Mark van Hoeij Differential Equations, Integer Sequences, Belyi Maps, and Modular Curves
11.50-12.35
James Davenport Recent advances in real geometric reasoning
Lunch
14.00-14.45
David Wales Brauer Algebras of Dynkin Diagrams
14.55-15.10
Iuliana Ciocanea Teodorescu The Module Isomorphism Problem for Finite Rings and Related Results
15.15-15.30
Duong Hoang Dung Representation zeta functions of nilpotent groups
15.35-15.50
Janne Kool Gonality of curves and treewidth of graphs
15.55-16.10
Arye Juhasz A class of equations over groups which have solutions of every sufficiently high order
Coffee and tea
16.30-17.15
Eamonn O'Brien A practical model for computation with linear groups
19.00-
Conference Dinner

Program

Friday, July 4, 2014

time & placeSpeakertitle
9.30-10.15
Bill Kantor Title
10.20-10.45
Willem Haemers The graphs with all but two eigenvalues equal to -1 or 1
Coffee and tea
11.15-11.40
Stephen Glasby Generalized quadrangles and AS-configurations of finite p-groups
11.50-12.35
Pierre-Emanuel Caprace Boundary-Moufang trees
Lunch
14.00-14.45
Ralf Köhl Finiteness properties and isoperimetric inequalities for S-arithmetic groups in positive characteristic
14.55-15.10
Eric Swartz Antiflag-transitive generalized quadrangles
15.15-15.30
Adam Thomas Non-G-completely reducible subgroups in exceptional algebraic groups in good characteristic
15.35-15.50
Ulrich Dempwolf Constructions of Dimensional Dual Hyperovals
15.55-16.10
Matthias Grüninger Moufang twin trees inducing a Moufang set at infinity
Coffee and tea
16.30-17.15
Richard Weiss Buildings and Descent Groups