Australian Algebra Conference

Conference booklet

The conference booklet is here.

The timetable is reproduced below.

Information about talks

Timetable (see above)

All times are AEDT.

Each contributed talk has a 30 minute time slot: (up to) 25 minutes for the talk and 5 minutes for questions.

Abstracts

See the conference booklet.

Zoom (for talks)

The talks will be presented via this Zoom link:

https://unimelb.zoom.us/j/89089213402?pwd=b05WWHJuNi9rYkV5WS9mUHV2TWFqQT09

The current default is that talks will be recorded. If you do not want your talk to be recorded, please let me know. In any case, no recordings will be made available without the explicit consent of the speaker.

Zoom (for socialising)

The following Zoom link will also be active for the entire conference for people to use:

https://unimelb.zoom.us/j/82956752399?pwd=ajVBM3Y1T2tjdFVzOXFnRFhuZGVjUT09

Slides

• Braid groups of normalizers of reflection subgroups
  Anthony Henderson

• A virtually 2-step nilpotent group with polynomial geodesic growth
  Murray Elder

• Towards a classification of group geodesic growth
  Alex Bishop

• Ordered left restriction semigroups...almost!
  Tim Stokes

Talk recordings

• Duality for ternary algebras and their cousins
  Brian Davey

Prerecorded 5 minute Talks

• An update on symmetric generalised quadrangles
  John Bamberg

Plenary Talks

• Professor Martin Bridson, University of Oxford

• Professor Peter Haïssinsky, Université d'Aix-Marsille

Gordon Preston Prize

The Gordon Preston Prize is awarded for the best presentation at the AAC given by a current student based at an Australian or overseas university. The presentations will be judged by a panel appointed by the executive committee. The winner of the prize will receive $300. The Rules for the Gordon Preston Prize are available on the website of the Australian Algebra Group.

Organisers

• Lawrence Reeves, University of Melbourne, lreeves@unimelb.edu.au

• Adrian McGahen, University of Melbourne, adrian.mcgahen@unimelb.edu.au

• Marcel Jackson, Latrobe University, m.g.jackson@latrobe.edu.au

• Tomasz Kowalski, Latrobe University, T.Kowalski@latrobe.edu.au

Sponsors

• Australian Algebra Group

• Australian Mathematical Society

• University of Melbourne