8.50-- 9.00
Opening Address -- Prof. D. McNicol -- Vice-Chancellor
9.00--10.00
R. Brent Australian National University
Recent developments in factorization.
10.00--10.30
A. van der Poorten Macquarie University
Divisibility sequences.
11.00--11.30
H. Niederreiter Austrian Academy of Sciences
Generating irreducible polynomials of arbitary
large degrees over the binary field
11.30--12.30
R. Lidl University of Tasmania
Computational problems in the theory of finite fields.
13.30--14.30
W. Bosma University of Sydney
Primality proving.
14.30--15.00
G. L. Cohen
University of Technology
How to find all odd perfect
numbers less than B.
G. Havas
University of Queensland
Recognizing badly presented
abelian groups.
15.00--15.30
M. Sved
University of Adelaide
Through fractal geometry
into number theory.
M. Short
Australian National University
A CAYLEY library of irreducible
soluble linear groups.
16.00--16.30
A. Miller University of Western Australia
An effective subspace theorem for function fields.
16.30--17.00
S. McCallum Macquarie University
Computing polynomial greatest common divisors
over an algebraic number field
17.00--18.00
J. Loxton Macquarie University
Cryptanalysis and the generation of random numbers.
9.00--10.00
G. Havas University of Queensland
Computation of Lie algebras related to Burnside groups.
10.00--10.30
C..E Praeger University of Western Australia
A recognition algorithm for special linear groups.
11.00--11.30
R.F.C. Walters & S.M. Carmody University of Sydney
The Todd-Coxeter algorithm and the computation
of left Kan-extensions
11.30--12.00
S.P. Glasby Victoria University of Wellington
Constructing ordinary and modular representations
of a soluble group
12.00--12.30
E.A. O'Brien Australian National University
Classifying 2-groups using co-class.
13.30--14.30
G. Butler University of Sydney
Computing Sylow p-subgroups of permutation groups.
14.30--15.00
K. Horadam
Cryptomathematics Research
Development of designs by
extensions of finite groups.
A. Woods
University of Western Australia
Deciding statements about primes
via Schinzel's conjecture
15.00--15.30
A. Niemeyer-Nickel and W. Nickel Australian National University
Families of block-transitive point-imprimitive
block designs.
16.00--16.30
D.-N. Verma Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
A generalization of Macmahon's `major index' concept.
16.30--17.00
B. McKay Australian National University
Orderly algorithms for exhaustive generation of
combinatorial objects.
17.00--18.00
J. Cannon University of Sydney
Computing with permutation groups of degree 1,000,000
or: ``Probability rules O.K.''
9.00--10.00
R.W. Richardson Australian National University
A generalization of the Bruhat order on Weyl groups.
10.00--10.30
J.H. Rubinstein University of Melbourne
Polyhedral metrics and low-dimensional manifolds.
11.00--11.30
M. Field University of Sydney
Symmetry breaking
11.30--12.00
R. Street Macquarie University
Quantum groups and knots.
12.00--12.30
D. Cartwright University of Sydney
Groups acting simply transitively on
the vertices of a building
13.30--14.30
C.E. Praeger University of Western Australia
Primitive permutation groups, graphs,
and relation algebras.
14.30--15.00
G. Gamble
University of Western Australia
Block-transitive 3-designs
with affine automorphism groups.
A. Skinner
University of Melbourne
The word problem in a class
of 3-manifold groups.
15.00--15.30
J. Covington
University of Melbourne
Maximal subgroups of
symmetric groups.
M. Brazil
La Trobe University
Growth functions for a
class of one-relator groups
16.00--16.30
A.R. Camina University of East Anglia
Infinite permutation modules.
16.30--17.00
G. Szekeres University of New South Wales
An algebra of directed graphs arising in the theory
of Hadamard matrices.
17.00--18.00
L. Kovacs Australian National University
Tensor induction of group representations.
9.00--10.00
G.I. Lehrer University of Sydney
The geometry of conjugacy classes and
representation theor of classical groups
10.00--10.30
D.-N. Verma Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
An interpretation and generalization of the symbolic
method of the 19-th century invariant theory
11.00--11.30
P.W. Donovan University of New South Wales
Spectral sequences and the cohomology of
modular representations.
11.30--12.30
J.R. Groves University of Melbourne
Finite presentability of soluble groups.
13.30--14.30
M.F. Newman Australian National University
Lie rings and groups of prime power order.
14.30--15.00
P. Lorimer University of Auckland
The construction of 3-dimensional manifolds
and their tesselations.
15.00--15.30
G. Morris University of New England
Some new applications of monomial representations.
16.00--16.30
C.F. Miller University of Melbourne
Applications of homotopy theory to groups
16.30--17.30
K. Gruenberg Queen Mary and Westfield College
Periodicity in integral representation theory.