Ischia Group Theory 2018

ISCHIA GROUP THEORY 2018

AGENDA Monday, March 19

15.00	Registration
16.00	Opening permanent Poster session A. Bier Y. Contreras Rojas D.S. da Silveira E. Di Domenico M. Ferrara, M. Trombetti S. Gul S. Hatui A. Kondratev, V. Trofimov T.K. Naik A. Olivieri P. Slanina
18.30	Welcome Cocktail

AGENDA Tuesday, March 20

dedicated to the memory of Michio Suzuki

9.10	Welcome greetings
9.20	Some memories
	Chairman: Jack Sonn
9.30	G. GLAUBERMAN, Symmetric groups and fixed points modules
10.05	A. MANN, Probabilistic identities in finite groups
10.50	V. BOVDI, Algebras whose group of units is hyperbolic
11.05	Coffee break
	Chairman: Lino Di Martino
11.30	R.L. GRIESS, JR., Integral forms in vertex operator algebras
12.05	D.J.S. ROBINSON, Metanilpotent groups satisfying the minimal condition for normal subgroups
12.40	M. HERZOG, Two criteria for solvability of finite groups
13.20	Lunch break
	Chairman: Rex Dark
15.00	M. KUZUCUOGLU, Regular direct limits of symmetric groups
15.35	O.H. KEGEL, O.Ore's 1951 question: is every element of a non-abelian simple group a commutator?
16.10	C. ACCIARRI, Graphs encoding the generating properties of a finite group
16.25	C. MONETTA, On the nilpotency of the verbal subgroup corresponding ro the Engel word
16.40	Coffee break
	Chairman: Waldemar Holubowski
17.05	F. DE GIOVANNI, Large subgroups in infinite groups
17.40	A. ZALESSKI, Steinberg-like characters for non-abelian simple groups
18.15	P. SHUMYATSKY, On conciseness of words in residually finite groups
21.30	Recital of classical Neapolitan songs

AGENDA Wednesday, March 21

dedicated to the memory of Klaus Doerk

	Chairman: Felix Leinen
9.10	Some memories
10.00	R. ESTEBAN-ROMERO, The number of maximal subgroups and probabilistic generations of finite groups
10.50	U. DARDANO, Groups with restrictions on subgroups which are not commensurable with a normal subgroup
11.05	Coffee break
	Chairman: Ted Hurley
11.30	C.E. PRAEGER, Composition lengths of finite groups
12.05	D. SEGAL, On groups of finite upper rank
12.40	L.-C. KAPPE, A GAP-conjecture and its solution: isomorphism classes of capable special p-groups of rank 2
13.15	Picture
13.20	Lunch break
	Chairman: Martin Newell
15.00	J. WILSON, Model theory for finite groups
15.35	A. LUCCHINI, The expected number of random elements to generate a finite group
16.10	F.W. PASINI, Koszul property in Galois cohomology
16.25	R. HAFEZIEH, Regular bipartite divisor graphs
16.40	Coffee break
	Chairman: Paolo Papi
17.05	A. TURULL, Characters of finite groups and p-adic numbers
17.40	Y. SEGEV, Half axes in power associative algebras
18.15	G.A. FERNANDEZ-ALCOBER, Some results regarding outer commutator words
18.50	R. SHWARTZ, A canonical form and exchange laws for the symmetric group S_n

AGENDA Thursday, March 22

dedicated to the memory of Valeria Fedri

9.30	Social trip: bus tour of Ischia
13.20	Lunch break
	Chairman: Luigi Serena
15.00	Some memories
15.15	A. CARANTI, Involutions in multiple holomorphs of groups
15.50	M.L. Lewis, Semi-extraspecial groups with an abelian subgroup of maximal possible order
16.25	D. BUBBOLONI, Asymptotic linear bounds for the normal covering number of the symmetric groups
16.40	Coffee break
17.05	H. HEINEKEN, Finite groups and their breadth
17.40	G. TRAUSTASON, Left 3-Engel elements in groups
18.05	C. PARKER, Identifying groups with a large p-subgroup
18.50	K. LORENSEN, Random walks on virtually solvable minimax groups

AGENDA Friday, March 23

	Chairman: Anatoly Kondratyev
9.10	A. YU OLSHANSKIY, Polynimally-bounded Dehn functions of groups
9.45	E. ALJADEFF, Groups gradings of finite dimensional division algebras
10.30	M. ZORDAN, Representation growth of special linear groups
10.45	D. MALININ, On the aritmethic of integral representations of finite groups
11.00	Coffee break
	Chairman: Michel Coornaert
11.30	L.A. KURDACHENKO, Infinite-dimensional Leibniz algebras in the spirit of infinite group theory
12.05	E. KHUKHRO, Almost Engel compact groups
12.40	W. HERFORT, Free profinite products of finite soluble groups
13.20	Lunch break
	Chairman: Peter P. Palfy
15.00	B. KLOPSCH, Hausdorff spectra of finitely generated pro-p groups
15.35	N. VAVILOV, Subnormal subgroups of Chevalley groups, revisited
16.10	M. GARONZI, On the number of cyclic subgroups of a finite group
16.25	S. STONEHEWER, Small 4-quasinormal subgroups
19.00	Concert of Baroque music
20.30	Social dinner