Groups St Andrews 2009 in Bath

by Edited by C. M. Campbell , M. R. Quick , E. F. Robertson , C. M. Roney-Dougal , G. C. Smith , G. Traustason

• ISBN13: 9780521279031
• ISBN10: 0521279038
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-07-25
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Groups St Andrews 2009 was held in the University of Bath in August 2009 and this first volume of a two-volume book contains selected papers from the international conference. Five main lecture courses were given at the conference, and articles based on their lectures form a substantial part of the proceedings. This volume contains the contributions by Gerhard Hiss (RWTH Aachen) and Volodymyr Nekrashevych (Texas A&M). Apart from the main speakers, refereed survey and research articles were contributed by other conference participants. Arranged in alphabetical order, these articles cover a wide spectrum of modern group theory. The regular proceedings of Groups St Andrews conferences have provided snapshots of the state of research in group theory throughout the past 30 years. Earlier volumes have had a major impact on the development of group theory and it is anticipated that this volume will be equally important.

Table of Contents

Introduction

A speech in honour of John Cannon and Derek Holt

Finite groups of Lie type and their representations

Iterated monodromy groups

Engel elements in groups

Some classes of finite semigroups with kite-like egg-boxes of D-classes

Structure of finite groups having few conjugacy class sizes

Group theory in cryptography

A survey of recent results in groups and orderings: word problems, embeddings and amalgamations

A survey on the minimum genus and maximum order problems for bordered Klein surfaces

On one-relator quotients of the modular group

Miscellaneous results on supersolvable groups

Automorphisms of products of finite groups

A rational property of the irreducible characters of a finite group

Automotives

On n-abelian groups and their generalizations

Computing with matrix groups over infinite fields

Trends in infinite dimensional linear groups

Engel conditions on orderable groups and in combinatorial problems (a survey)

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