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Final Program
NIKOLAUS CONFERENCE 2014
(Lehrstuhl D für Mathematik, RWTH Aachen)
The talks have been in Pontdriesch 14/16 in Hörsaal SeMath (008). Meeting point and coffee breaks were at Lehrstuhl D, first floor (German counting) in the same building.
Friday, December 5, 2014
2.01-2.21pm Richard Parker (Cambridge): High Performance Software in 2015
2.36-2.54pm Eirini Chavli (Paris): The BMR Freeness Conjecture: The Tetrahedral and Octahedral Families
coffee and discussion       
4.40-4.59pm Mikael Cavallin (Lausanne): Branching Problems for Representations of Simple Algebraic Groups
5.10-5.28pm Jay Taylor (Lausanne) Inducing Characters of Weyl Groups
5.42-5.59pmDavid Denoncin (Paris): Unitriangularity of the Decomposition Matrix of Finite Special Unitary Groups
7.00pm-?? Research Cambridge Style! (in the restaurant Pontgarten, Pontstraße 154)
Saturday, December 6, 2014 (Nikolaus!)
10.00-10.20amStefan Kohl (Stuttgart): What do Thompson's Group V and the Collatz Conjecture have in Common?
10.30-10.51amCaroline Lassueur (Kaiserslautern): On Character Theory for Endo-Trivial Modules
11.00-11.20amGunter Malle (Kaiserslautern): Zeroes of Characters of Simple Groups
11.31-11.53amKay Magaard (Birmingham): The Lift Invariant and the Conway-Parker Theorem
lunch break
1.31-1.48pm Anna Gąsior (Lublin): Spin-Structure on Real Bott Manifolds
2.00-2.16pm Farzaneh Gholaminezhad (Halle): The G-Graphs and the Hamiltonian Cayley Graphs
2.30-2.46pm Dung Duong (Bielefeld): Representation Growth of Nilpotent Groups
3.00-3.20pm Rafał Lutowski (Gdańsk): Irreducible Euclidean Representations of the Fibonacci Groups
coffee and discussion       
4.40-5.01pmBaptiste Rognerud (Lausanne): Symmetry of the Mackey Algebra
5.10-5.33pmChristopher Jefferson (St Andrews): Finding Canonical Images in Permutation Groups
5.40-6.00pm Karen Petrie (Dundee): Why is Computational Group Theory Important to Constraint Programming?
7.00pm-?? Research Cambridge Style! (in the "Labyrinth", of course)
Anyone was welcome to attend the talks.   Frank Lübeck
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