Groups in Galway 2019

10–11 May 2019

The conference Groups in Galway 2019 took place at the National University of Ireland, Galway from 10–11 May 2019.

Groups in Galway has been running on an annual basis since 1978. The scope of the conference covers all aspects of group theory, including applications, as well as related fields. Everybody was invited to attend.

Groups in Galway 2019 was generously supported by:

Science Foundation Ireland.
The Office of the Registrar and Deputy President of NUI Galway.
The Irish Mathematical Society.

Speakers

Yiftach Barnea (Royal Holloway, University of London): Survey of New Developments in Subgroup Growth (slides)
Angela Carnevale (National University of Ireland, Galway): Partial equality and word problems
Oihana Garaialde Ocaña (University of the Basque Country): Pro-p groups of positive rank gradient and Hausdorff dimension
Scott Harper (University of Bristol): Spread and Uniform Domination (slides)
Kevin Hutchinson (University College Dublin): Galois Theory and the cyclic quantum dilogarithm
H. Dugald Macpherson (University of Leeds): Jordan permutation groups: examples, classifications, and applications
James D. Mitchell (University of St Andrews): Uniqueness and non-uniqueness of Polish semigroup topologies
Marta Morigi (University of Bologna): On Groups with Restricted Centralizers of w-Values (slides)
Christopher Voll (Bielefeld University): Normal subgroup growth of free nilpotent groups under base extension — wild or uniform?

Please also see the full list of abstracts.

Schedule

Friday, 10 May
09.45 – 10.00	Opening
10.00 – 10.45	Angela Carnevale	Partial equality and word problems
10.45 – 11.15	Coffee/tea
11.15 – 12.00	Yiftach Barnea	Survey of New Developments in Subgroup Growth
12.15 – 13.00	Marta Morigi	On Groups with Restricted Centralizers of w-Values
13.00	Conference photo	Photographer: Qays Shakir
13.15 – 14.30	Lunch
14.30 – 15.15	H. Dugald Macpherson	Jordan permutation groups: examples, classifications, and applications
15.30 – 16.15	Christopher Voll	Normal subgroup growth of free nilpotent groups under base extension — wild or uniform?
16.15 – 16.45	Coffee/tea
16.45 – 17.30	Kevin Hutchinson	Galois Theory and the cyclic quantum dilogarithm
17.30 – 18.30	Poster session and reception
18.30	Poster prize	Winner: Mima Stanojkovski
20.00	Dinner at Il Vicolo	(The Bridgemills, O'Brien's Bridge, Galway city)

Saturday, 11 May
10.00 – 10.45	James D. Mitchell	Uniqueness and non-uniqueness of Polish semigroup topologies
10.45 – 11.15	Coffee/tea
11.15 – 12.00	Scott Harper	Spread and Uniform Domination
12.15 – 13.00	Oihana Garaialde Ocaña	Pro-p groups of positive rank gradient and Hausdorff dimension

Poster session

A poster session took take place on Friday afternoon. All participants of the conference were invited to present posters. A prize, sponsered by Science Foundation Ireland, was awarded to the top ranked poster. The winner was Mima Stanojkovski from Bielefeld.

Recent instalments of Groups in Galway

The organisers of Groups in Galway 2019 were Graham Ellis and Tobias Rossmann.

last modified: 17 May 2019