Groups in Madrid

November 22-23, 2018

Invited speakers

• Olivier Dudas

• Gustavo Fernández Alcober

• Eugenio Giannelli

• Alessandra Iozzi

• Gunter Malle

• Leo Margolis

• Petra Schwer

Description

This is the third edition of Groups in Madrid, a 2-day workshop devoted to recent developments in group theory. There is no registration fee to participate. Unfortunately, we won't be able to provide any financial support or accommodation. Please, do not hesitate to contact with one of the organizers in case you have any questions.

We plan to have a conference dinner on Friday November 23 with a reduced price for junior participants.

Here you have links to the previous editions: 2016 and 2017.

Registration

Registered participants

Schedule

The following is a preliminary schedule:

Thursday, November 22

• 14:30 Registration

• 15:00 Gustavo Fernández Alcober
  Title: On the number of Beauville and non-Beauville p-groups

• 16:00 Coffee break

• 16:30 Petra Schwer
  Title: Reflection length in affine Coxeter groups

• 17:30 Eugenio Giannelli
  Title: On monomial characters and Sylow p-subgroups of symmetric groups

Friday, November 23

• 10:30 Gunter Malle
  Title: Counting characters in a block

• 11:30 Coffee Break
  

• 12:00 Colloquium UAM-ICMAT
  

• 13:00 Lunch

• 15:00 Olivier Dudas
  Title: The abelian defect group conjecture and Deligne-Lusztig varieties

• 16:00 Coffee break

• 16:30 Leo Margolis
  Title: Blocks, characters and torsion units in integral group rings

• 17:30 Alessandra Iozzi
  Title: TBA

• 21:00 Conference Dinner
  Restaurante Casa Salvador, Calle Barbieri 12.

Venue

The workshop will be held at the ICMAT (Institute for the Mathematical Sciences), a joint research institute of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and the universities UAM, UCM, UC3M.

The ICMAT is located in the Campus Cantoblanco of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), 15 km North of downtown Madrid. The campus is connected by public transport to downtown Madrid. See here more information about to how to arrive.

Organizing Committee: Yago Antolín, Javier Aramayona, Andrei Jaikin-Zapirain and Carolina Vallejo.