Tuesday, 19 August 2008
09:00 Orientation & Welcome
10:00 Session 1
10:00-11:00 Bessenrodt, The block splitting of 2-regular classes in symmetric groups
11:00 Coffee Break
11:30 Session 2
11:30-12:30 Willems, Duality and Morita equivalence
12:30 Lunch
14:00 Session 3
14:00-14:30 Schroll, Alvis-Curtis Duality and Decomposition Numbers
14:30-15:00 Andrei Marcus, Derived Invariance of Clifford classes
15:00-15:30 Dotsenko, Free algebras with compatible associative products
15:30 Afternoon Tea
16:00 Session 4
16:00-16:30 Szechtman, The Steinberg lattice of the general linear group and its modular reduction
16:30-17:00 Hartmann, Permutation resolutions of Specht modules
17:00-17:30 Uno, Isometries of characters in extra-special defect group cases
17:30 End of Day 1
Wednesday, 20 August 2008
09:00 Session 5
09:00-10:00 Robinson, Remarks on amalgams and representations
10:00-11:00 Koshitani, Examples of Broue's abelian defect group conjecture
11:00 Coffee
11:30 Session 6
11:30-12:00 Keller, Bounding the number of conjugacy classes in finite groups
12:00-12:30 Turull, Above the Glauberman correspondence
12:30 Lunch
14:00 Session 7
14:00-14:30 Vinroot, Frobenius-Schur indicators for finite groups of Lie type
14:30-15:00 Moreto, Sylow p-subgroups and characters of degree divisible by p
15:00-15:30 Mazza, The group of endotrivial modules for the symmetric groups
15:30 Afternoon Tea
16:00 Session 8
16:00-16:30 Curtis, On the Bruhat decomposition and structure constants of Hecke algebras of finite Chevalley groups
16:30-17:00 Zalesski, Decomposition of the tensor product of Weil and Steinberg representations
17:00-17:30 Sanus, Real Characters and Degrees
17:30 End of Day 2
19:30 Conference Dinner
Thursday, 21 August 2008
09:00 Session 9
09:00-10:00 Dade, Group Controlled Algebras
10:00-11:00 Nebe, p-adic integral group rings of finite groups
11:00 Coffee Break
11:30 Excursion: Trim Castle & Loughcrew Megalithic Tombs
21:30 Pub & Trad Session
Friday, 22 August 2008
09:00 Session 10
09:00-10:00 Erdmann, Fixed point free involutions for S_n over characteristic 2
10:00-11:00 Külshammer, Vertices of simple modules for symmetric groups
11:00 Coffee Break
11:30 Session 11
11:30-12:00 Wildon, Fixed-point-free involutions and decomposition matrices of symmetric groups
12:00-12:30 Sangroniz, Irreducible characters of large degree of the Sylow p-subgroups of classical groups
12:30 Lunch
14:00 Session 12
14:00-14:30 Pforte, The Involution Module of SL(n,2^f)
14:30-15:00 Murphy, Commutative subalgebras of the symmetric group algebra
15:00-15:30 Ellers, Blocks of Centralizer Algebras
15:30 Afternoon Tea
16:00 Session 13
16:00-16:30 Olteanu, Ring isomorphism of cyclic cyclotomic algebras
16:30-17:00 Loukaki, Lehrer's Conjecture
17:00-17:30 Smid, invariants in higher spin valued representations
17:30-18:00 Shtepin, V., Semiclassical Lie group D_5/2 and characters of its finite dimensional representations
18:00 conclusion of conference