Jon Hall 75
Group Theory and Its Neighboring Disciplines

Time and Location

August 16-18, 2024
University of Denver

All talks: Olin Hall
Reception: Olin Hall Rotunda (likely August 16 at 7pm)
Conference dinner: TBA (likely August 17 at 7pm)

Topics

The conference will honor and highlight the work of Professor Jon Hall on the occasion of his 75th birthday.

Topics covered by the conference include group theory, representation theory, Lie theory, group cohomology, non-associative algebraic structures, computational group theory, combinatorics, discrete geometry, and coding theory.

Speakers and Invited Participants

Monther Alfuraidan (King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals)
Rosemary Bailey (University of St. Andrews)
Barbara Baumeister (University of Bielefeld)
Peter Cameron* (University of St. Andrews and Queen Mary University)
Hans Cuypers (Technische Universiteit Eindhoven)
Ales Drapal (Charles University)
Clara Franchi (Catholic University of Sacred Heart)
Bob Guralnick* (University of Southern California)
Sasha Ivanov (Imperial College London)
Kenneth Johnson (Penn State Abington)
Bill Kantor (University of Oregon)
Michael Kinyon (University of Denver)
Mark Lewis (Kent State University)
Richard Lyons (Rutgers University)
Mario Mainardis (University of Udine)
William Martin (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
Jamshid Moori (North-West University)
Dan Nakano (University of Georgia)
Guillermo Nunez Ponasso (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
Cheryl Praeger (University of Western Australia)
Julianne Rainbolt (Saint Louis University)
Igor Rapinchuk (Michigan State University)
Bernardo Rodrigues (University of Pretoria)
Bruce Sagan (Michigan State University)
Yoav Segev (Ben-Gurion University)
Ivan Shestakov (University of Sao Paulo)
Sergey Shpectorov (University of Birmingham)
Jonathan Smith (Iowa State University)
Steve Smith (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Justin Stevenson (Iowa State University)
Simon Thomas (Rutgers University)
Pham Tiep (Rutgers University)
Richard Weiss (Tufts University)
Tingyao Xiong (Radford University)

* = tentative

Organizers

Nguyen N. Hung (University of Akron, )
Mandi Schaeffer Fry (University of Denver, )
Petr Vojtechovsky (University of Denver, )

Sponsors

The conference is supported by a grant from the National Security Agency and by the Department of Mathematics at the University of Denver.

Registration

Please contact all three organizers if you would like to attend the conference and/or be considered for support.