Groups in Galway 2003

A conference will be held at National University of Ireland, Galway, on Friday 16 May
and Saturday 17 May 2003. All who are interested are very welcome to attend.

Among the invited speakers are

   Dr. C.M. Campbell (St Andrews)
   Prof. A. Feldman (Franklin and Marshall)
   Dr R. Higgs (University College Dublin)
   Prof. L. Kappe (SUNY at Binghampton)
   Prof. T. Laffey (University College Dublin)
   Prof. R. Morse (Evansville)
   Prof. C. Scoppola (L'Aquila)
   Dr Emil Sköldberg (Galway)

In addition, there will be a talk by Prof. G. Mason (UC Santa Cruz), who is also addressing
the 10th Irish Quantum Field Theory Meeting hosted by the Department of Mathematical
Physics, NUI, Galway.

All talks will be held in Lecture Theatre AM250, Arts Millennium Building.

Friday 16 May

10.00-10.45
Feldman, Properties implying normal embedding in soluble groups
11.00-11.45
Morse, Computing the nonabelian tensor squares of the free 2-Engel groups. abstract
11.45-12.15
Coffee/tea
12.15-1.00
Scoppola, From Camina groups to normally constrained pro-p-groups
1.00-2.30
Lunch
2.30-3.15
Higgs, Some inequalities concerning the order of the Schur multiplier of a finite group
3.15-4.00
Campbell, Fibonacci and groups. abstract
4.00-4.30
Coffee/tea
4.30-5.15
Laffey, The Smith normal form of diagonalizable matrices with some applications

Saturday 17 May

9.30-10.15

               Sköldberg, Cohomology of Coxeter and generalized braid groups
10.15-11.00
               Kappe, Capable groups and nonabelian tensor squares. abstract
11.00-11.30
               Coffee/tea
11.30-12.30
               Mason, Mirror pairs of finite groups

For further information, please contact John Burns (john.burns@nuigalway.ie)
or Dane Flannery (dane.flannery@nuigalway.ie).

Groups in Galway 2003 gratefully acknowledges the support of
Boston Scientific Ireland Limited, AIB (Newcastle branch), and
Bank of Ireland (NUI, Galway branch).