Final Program for Nikolaus 2006

All talks were given in the Hauptgebäude, Templergraben 55, the first two talks in Hörsaal II and the remaining ones in Hörsaal I.

Friday, December 8, 2006

1.53-2.15pm^*	Richard Parker (Cambridge): Short Theorems with Long Proofs in Finitely Presented Groups (slides as PDF-file (from Powerpoint presentation))
2.20-2.40pm	Alla Detinko (Galway): Algorithms for Matrix Groups over Infinite Domains
	coffee and discussion (from 3.15-4.15pm there was a talk in the "Graduiertenkolleg" by Daniel Robertz with title Constructing Matrix Representations of Finitely Presented Groups using Janet Bases)
4.31-4.51pm	Evija Ribnere (Düsseldorf): Engel Length versus Nilpotency Class for Nilpotent Groups
5.00-5.18pm	Tara Bonda (Auckland): On Lie Algebras of Cartan Type in Characteristic 2
5.40-5.58pm	Christian Greve (Braunschweig): On the Classification of 2-adic Space Groups by Coclass (slides as PDF-file)
7.00pm-??	Research Cambridge Style! (in the "Bärenhof", Templergraben 1)

Saturday, December 9, 2006

10.00-10.21am	Sebastian Hage (Göttingen): A Borsuk-Ulam-Type Theorem for Fundamental Correspondences
10.30-10.56am^*	Daniel Juteau (Paris): The Cohomology of the Minimal Class (slides as PDF-file)
11.02-11.18am	Jérémie Guilhot (Lyon/Aberdeen): Affine Weyl Groups and Kazhdan-Lusztig Cells with Unequal Parameters
11.30-11.50am	Jean Michel (Paris): Galois Automorphisms of Complex Reflection Groups (slides as PDF-file)
	lunch break
1.50-2.08pm	Willem de Graaf (Trento): Constructing the Algebraic Group with a Given Lie Algebra
2.20-2.45pm^*	Götz Pfeiffer (Galway): ZigZag - A GAP3 Package for computing in Descent Algebras (slides as PDF-file)
2.55-3.12pm	Alexander Konovalov (Zaporozhye/Brussels): Computations in subgroups of finite index in SL₂(Z) (slides as PDF-file)
3.20-3.40pm	Harald Meyer (Bayreuth): Primitive Central Idempotents of Finite Group Rings of Symmetric Groups (slides as PDF-file)
	coffee break
4.50-5.08pm	Susanne Danz (Jena): Computing Vertices of Simple Modules in Symmetric Groups
5.20-5.39pm	Jean-Baptiste Gramain (Aberdeen): Broué's Conjecture for l-blocks of the Symmetric Group (slides as PDF-file)
5.50-6.13pm^*	John Bray (London): Non-Split Extensions of Some Unitary Groups (slides as PDF-file)
7.00pm-??	Research Cambridge Style! (in the "Labyrinth")

Anyone was welcome to attend the talks. Frank Lübeck

^*) These speakers have solved the conference puzzle and were allowed to talk 5 minutes longer than scheduled.

Final version ( Thu, 14 Dec 2006 17:01:48 +0100 )