Final Program
[Nikolaus program as PDF-file]
All talks were online via zoom. Participants had to register to get the link.
All times are in central European standard time (CET = UTC+1).
Friday, December 11, 2020
| 2.01--2.23pm | Emily Norton (Kaiserslautern): New Decomposition Numbers of Finite Classical Groups [slides] |
| 2.30--2.49pm | Richard Parker (Cambridge): On Short Theorems with a Long Proof [slides] |
| 3.00--3.20pm | Farideh Shafiei (Tehran): Taketa Inequality for Solvable Groups with Few Irreducible Character Degrees |
| (coffee break --- bring your own coffee and cookies) | |
| 4.35--4.55pm | Caroline Lassueur (Kaiserslautern): On the Modular Representation Theory of Finite Groups with Semi-Dihedral Sylow 2-Subgroups |
| 5.00--5.20pm | Gunter Malle (Kaiserslautern): On Willems' Conjecture on Brauer Character Degrees |
| 5.28--5.52pm | Farrokh Shirjian (Tehran): An Explicit Description of the Action of Automorphisms on Irreducible Characters of Quasi-Simple Groups of Type A |
| 7.00pm-?? | Online variant of Research Cambridge Style! Participants had to organize drinks, Glühwein, Grillplatte or whatever they needed themselves. We had long chats via zoom, including some breakout rooms. |
Saturday, December 12, 2020
| 2.00--2.18pm | Paula Hähndel (Halle): Finite Simple Groups that Act Transitively and with Fixity 4 |
| 2.30--2.52pm | Rafał Lutowski (Gdańsk): Flat Manifolds with Holonomy Representation of Quaternionic Type [slides] |
| 3.00--3.21pm | Damian Sercombe (Bochum): Maximal Connected Subgroups of Maximal Rank in Reductive k-Groups |
| (coffee break --- bring your own coffee and cookies) | |
| 4.30--4.47pm | Linus Hellebrandt (Aachen): Cartan Invariants of the Descent Algebra for Coxeter Groups of Type \(A_n\) |
| 5.00--5.21pm | Meinolf Geck (Stuttgart): An Elementary Characterisation of Special Nilpotent Orbits [slides] |
| 5.30--5.51pm | Thomas Breuer (Aachen): Verifying the Character Table of the Monster [slides] |
| 7.00pm-?? | (Sorry, Labyrinth was closed and cancelled this year.) |
Final version from Mon, 21 Dec 2020 22:50:30 +0100