COMPUTATIONAL ALGEBRA AND NUMBER THEORY

Conference in Honour of G.E. WALL

********************* Tuesday 6 November 1990 ********************

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.

******************** Wednesday 7 November 1990 *******************

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.''

******************** Thursday 8 November 1990 ********************

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.

********************* Friday 9 November 1990 *********************

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.

************ Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Sydney ************