CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

  All lectures will take place in Lecture Room MS.01 in the
  Mathematics Institute, University of Warwick.

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  Monday, August 22
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   8:00 -  9:00 am:  Registration

   9:00 -  9:50 am:  Jon Carlson (Georgia): Homological algebra and group 
                     algebras

  10.00 - 10.25 am:  John Cremona (Nottingham):  Solving conics over 
                     function fields

  10:30 - 11:00 am:  COFFEE 

  11:00 - 12:00 am:  Gavin Brown (Warwick/Kent): Complexes, unprojection 
                     and Fano 3-folds (TUTORIAL)

  12:00 -  2:00 pm:  LUNCH

   2:00 -  2:25 pm:  Derek Holt (Warwick): Computing conjugacy class
                     representatives in a finite group

   2:30 -  2:55 pm:  Bill Unger (Sydney): Computing the character table of
                     a finite group

   3:00 -  3:25 pm:  John Bray (Queen Mary): Constructing the 124-dimensional
                     representation of Sz(32) in characteristic zero

   3:30 -  4:00 pm:  TEA

   4:00 -  4:25 pm:  Mark Watkins (Bristol): Loci of curves with prescribed 
                     automorphism group

   4.30 -  5.20 pm:  Nils Bruin (Simon Fraser): Finding the rational points 
                     on curves

   6.00 -  8.00 pm:  Reception (Common Room)

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  Tuesday, August 23
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   9:00 -  9:50 am:  Florian Hess (Berlin): An algorithm for computing 
                     isomorphisms and automorphism groups of function 
                     fields of algebraic curves

  10.00 - 10.25 am:  Tom Fisher (Cambridge): Computing the discriminant 
                     of a genus one curve

  10:30 - 11:00 am:  COFFEE 

  11:00 - 12:00 am:  Bill Unger (Sydney): Computing with groups in Magma
                     (TUTORIAL)

  12:00 -  2:00 pm:  LUNCH

   2:00 -  2:25 pm:  John Cannon (Sydney): Constructing modular representations

   2:30 -  2:55 pm:  Goetz Wiesend (Essen): Algorithmic investigation of the 
                     boundary of a Hurwitz space

   3:00 -  3:25 pm:  Bernardo Rodrigues (Durban): Permutation decoding for 
                     codes from designs and graphs

   3:30 -  4:00 pm:  TEA

   4:00 -  4:25 pm:  Steve Linton (St Andrews): Canonical representatives of 
                     orbits of sets

   4.30 -  5.20 pm:  Eamonn O'Brien (Auckland): Algorithms for large degree 
                     matrix groups


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  Wednesday, August 24
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   9:00 -  9:50 am:  Miles Reid (Warwick): Around the McKay correspondence

  10.00 - 10.25 am:  R. James Shank (Kent): SAGBI bases, Magma and modular 
                     invariant theory

  10:30 - 11:00 am:  COFFEE 

  11:00 - 11:25 am:  Scott Murray (Eindhoven): Computing in groups of Lie 
                     type with Lie algebras

  11.30 - 11.55 am:  Sergei Haller (Giessen): Galois cohomology: Some aspects 
                     of computation and applications

  12:00 -  2:00 pm:  LUNCH

   2:00 -  2:25 pm:  Peter Brooksbank (Bucknell): Implementing constructive 
                     recognition algorithms for finite classical groups

   2:30 -  2:55 pm:  Henrik Baarnhielm (QMUL): Finding elements of even 
                     order in the big Ree groups

   3:00 -  3:25 pm:  Mark Stather (Warwick): Computing in matrix groups

   3:30 -  4:00 pm:  TEA

   4:00 -  4:25 pm:  Bettina Eick (Braunschweig): Computing with rational 
                     matrix groups

   4.30 -  5.20 pm:  Mike Vaughan-Lee (Oxford): The groups of order p^7

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  Thursday, August 25
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   9:00 -  9:50 am:  Hans-Christian Graf v. Bothmer (Hannover): Counting 
                     components heuristically

  10.00 - 10.25 am:  Joesef Schicho (Linz):  Computation of adjoints and the
                     parametrization problem

  10:30 - 11:00 am:  COFFEE 

  11:00 - 11:55 am:  Michael Stoll (Bremen): Rational points on curves 
                     in Magma (TUTORIAL)

  12:00 -  2:00 pm:  LUNCH

   2:00 -  2:25 pm:  Willem de Graaf (Trento): Classifying solvable Lie 
                     algebras with Magma

   2:30 -  2:55 pm:  Michael Harrison (Sydney): Rational parametrisations 
                     via Lie algebras I

   3:00 -  3:25 pm:  Janka Pilnikova (Linz): Rational parametrisations  
                     via Lie algebras II

   3:30 -  4:00 pm:  TEA

   4:00 -  4:25 pm:  Dimitri Leemans (Brussels): Exploring incidence 
                     geometries with Magma

   4.30 -  5.20 pm:  Samir Siksek (Omam/Warwick): The 
                     Lebesgue-Nagell-Ramanujan equation
                     
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  Friday, August 26
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   9:00 -  9:50 am:  Peter Fleischmann (Kent): Algorithmic and structural 
                     aspects of modular invariant theory

  10.00 - 10.25 am:  Colva Roney-Dougal (St Andrews): Computing with maximal 
                     subgroups

  10:30 - 11:00 am:  COFFEE 

  11:00 - 11:55 am:  Derek Holt (Warwick): Computing in large finite groups 
                     (TUTORIAL)

  12:00 -  2:00 pm:  LUNCH

   2:00 -  2:25 pm:  Tim Dokchitser (Edinburgh): Computing motivic L-series

   2:30 -  2:55 pm:  Steven Galbraith (Royal Holloway): A survey of 
                     computational problems in cryptography

   3:00 -  3:25 pm:  Don Taylor (Sydney): Magma and finite subgroups of Lie 
                     groups over algebraic number fields

   3:30 -  4:00 pm:  TEA

   4:00 -  5.00 pm:  John Coates (Cambridge): Heegner-like phenomena for 
                     elliptic curves in non-commutative p-adic Lie extensions

   5.30 -  7.30 pm:  Refreshments (Common Room)