Groups St Andrews 2017 in Birmingham, August 2017

Groups St Andrews 2017 is organised by the University of St Andrews and the University of Birmingham.

It will take place in Birmingham between Saturday 5th August (arrival day) and Sunday 13th August 2017 (departure day). The talks will happen from 6th August until 12th August 2017 (inclusive).

Aim

This conference, the tenth in the series of Groups St Andrews Conferences, will be organised along similar lines to previous events in this series.

Topics

The conference aims to cover all aspects of group theory. The short lecture courses are intended to be accessible to postgraduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and researchers in all areas of group theory.

Principal speakers

Michael Aschbacher (Caltech)
Pierre-Emmanuel Caprace (Université Catholique de Louvain)
Radha Kessar (City University, London)
Gunter Malle (TU Kaiserslautern)

One-hour speakers

Tim Burness (University of Bristol)
Vincent Guirardel (Université de Rennes 1)
Harald Helfgott (University of Göttingen)
Andrei Jaikin-Zapirain (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
Donna Testerman (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)