Ischia Group Theory 2014

ISCHIA GROUP THEORY 2014

AGENDA Tuesday, 1

15.00	Registration
16.00	Opening permanent Poster Session
18.30	Welcome Cocktail

AGENDA Wednesday, 2

9.15	Welcome greetings
	Chairman: Gernoth Stroth
9.30	E. Zelmanov, Infinite dimensional Lie algebras and beyond
10.20	S. ADYAN, The Burnside Problem on periodic groups for odd exponent n > 100
11.05	Coffee break
	Chairman: Karl Strambach
11.30	S. SIDKI, On groups with cubic polynomial conditions
12.05	A. LUCCHINI, Bias of group generators in the solvable case
12.40	N. VAVILOV, Decomposition of unipotents, revisited
13.20	Picture
13.30	Lunch break
	Chairman: Donna Testerman
15.00	S. STONEHEWER, Generalizing the concept of quasinormality
15.35	P. SHUMYATSKY, Exponent of locally finite groups with small centralizers
16.10	A. ABDOLLAHI, Recent progress on the conjecture of existence of noninner automorphisms of order p for finite nonabelian p-groups
16.45	P. BAGINSKI, Model theoretic advances for groups with bounded chains of centralizers
17.05	Coffee break
	Chairman: Hermann Heineken
17.30	G. FERNANDEZ-ALCOBER, On the Hausdorff spectrum of some groups acting on the p-adic tree
18.05	A. STEPANOV, Sandwich classification theorem
18.25	U. DARDANO, The group of inertial automorphisms of an abelian group
18.40	D. NIKOLOVA-POPOVA, On the covering number of small symmetric groups and some sporadic simple groups
21.30	Recital of classical Neapolitan songs

AGENDA Thursday, 3

dedicated to the memory of David Chillag

	Chairman: Peter P. Palfy
9.00	A. LUBOTZKY, Deformation theory and finite simple quotients of triangle groups
9.45	A. MANN, Conjugacy class sizes and commutativity invariants in finite p-groups - odd problems and new answers
10.30	C. TAMBURINI, Classical Hurwitz groups of low rank
11.05	Coffee break
	Chairman: Velleda Baldoni
11.30	M. HERZOG, Some inverse problems in Baumslag-Solitar groups
12.10	Z. ARAD, A memorial lecture to the late Professor David Chillag (1946-2012)
12.55	N. SAMBONET, The unitary cover of a finite group and the exponent of the Schur multiplier
13.30	Lunch break
	Chairman: Eric Jespers
15.00	E. O'BRIEN, Word maps on finite simple groups
15.40	M. LEWIS, Codegrees and nilpotence class of p-groups
16.20	G. Traustason, On left 3-Engel elements
17.05	Coffee break
	Chairman: Andrea Caranti
17.30	R. CAMINA, Conjugacy class sizes of finite groups
18.05	A. JUHASZ, Conjugacy in relatively extra-large Artin group
18.45	M. MORIGI, Cyclic and pro-cyclic coverings of commutators

AGENDA Friday, 4

9.30	Social trip: bus tour of Ischia
13.30	Lunch break
	Chairman: Antonio Pasini
15.00	T. WEIGEL, Stallings' decomposition theorem for pro-p groups
15.45	J. ZIMMERMAN, Large odd order groups acting on Riemann surfaces
16.20	M. SALIM, On the unit group of commutative group rings
16.35	M. GARONZI, Factorizing a group with conjugate subgroups
16.50	A. SMOLENSKY, Commutator width of Chevalley groups
17.05	Coffee break
	Chairman: Ted Hurley
17.30	G. ROSENBERGER, Gröbner basis computation in group rings and applications for groups
18.20	S. KOHL, A group action on Z^2 exhibiting fractal-like patterns
18.35	D. MALININ, One construction of integral representations of p-groups

AGENDA Saturday, 5

dedicated to the memory of Brian Hartley

	Chairman: Martin Newell
9.00	Hartley's memories
9.10	R. BRYANT, The Lie module for the symmetric group
9.50	M. KUZUCUOGLU, Homogenous finitary symmetric groups
10.30	E. KHUKHRO, Finite groups admitting Frobenius groups of automorphisms with almost fixed-point-free kernel
11.05	Coffee break
	Chairman: Akbar Rhemtulla
11.30	C. LEEDHAM-GREEN, Is it possible to classify all groups of prime power order up to isomorphism?
12.10	M. EVANS, Some applications of Magnus embedding
12.45	C. ACCIARRI, On words that are concise in residually finite groups
13.00	A. LAVRENOV, Another presentation for symplectic Steinberg groups
13.30	Lunch break
	Chairman: Claudio Procesi
15.00	M. DIXON, The theorems of Schur, Baer and Hall
15.35	L.-C. KAPPE, Capable special p-groups of rank 2: structure results
16.05	R. MORSE, Capable special p-groups of rank 2: the isomorphism problem
16.30	C. QUADRELLI, Absolute Galois pro-p groups with constant generating number on open subgroups
16.45	S. SINCHUK, Parabolic factorizations of Steinberg groups
17.10	D. ROBINSON, Group algebras with the bounded splitting property
21.00	Social dinner