ISCHIA GROUP THEORY 2004

AGENDA   Wednesday, March 31    09.20  Welcome Greetings Chairman: Mario Curzio 09.30  M. Isaacs, “Numbers of classes of p-groups of given orders” 10.20  Z. Arad, “The history of the classification of finite groups with a CC-subgroup” 11.10  Coffee break 11.30  D. Robinson, “Chain conditions for subgroups of infinite order or index” 12.20  B. Huppert, “Character-degrees of simple groups” 13.30  Lunch break Chairman: Wolfgang Herfort 15.30  O. Kegel, “Diagonal groups and algebras” 16.20  A. Camina, “Implications of conjugacy class size for finite groups” 17.10  Coffee break Chairman: Andrea Caranti 17.30  P. Neumann, “Orbital equations in primitive permutation groups” 18.20  G. Freiman,“The notion of isomorphism of subsets in additive number theory, group theory and probability theory” 19.10  A. Previtali, “Toward a uniqueness proof of Thompson sporadic simple group”

AGENDA   Thursday, April 1    Chairman: Cesarina Tibiletti 09.30  Z. Janko, “New results in the theory of finite 2-groups” 10.20  D. Chillag, “Algebras with positive bases, commutators and covering numbers” 11.10  Coffee break 11.30  M. Vaughan-Lee, “4-Engel groups” 12.20  F. Menegazzo, “Complements in simple and almost simple groups” 13.10  Picture 13.30  Lunch break Chairman: Maria Clara Tamburini 15.30  J. Thompson, “Finite projective planes” 16.10  F. Fumagalli, “The Quillen complex of a solvable group” 16.30  R. Bryant, “Groups acting on free Lie algebras” 17.20  Coffee break Chairman: Gunnar Traustason 17.40  A. Juhasz, “On elements of finite order in certain quotients of amalgamated free products and HNN-extentions” 18.30  S. Mattarei, “Lie algebras with a nonsingular derivation” 19.00  H. Heineken, “Central series and norm”

AGENDA   Friday, April 2    09.30  Social trip: island tour by bus with a stop in S. Angelo 13.30  Lunch break Chairman: Lino Di Martino 15.30  A. Rhemtulla, “Ordered groups in which all convex jumps are central” 16.20  Ed Bertram, “Conjugacy classes and centralizers in finite groups” 17.10  Coffee break Chairman: Mauro Biliotti 17.30  H. Smith, “Embedding groups in simple groups” 18.20  A. Bialostocki, “On the Erdös-Ginzburg-Ziv theorem” 19.10  N. Gavioli, “Just infinite periodic Lie algebras and pro-p-groups” 20.30  Social dinner

AGENDA   Saturday, April 3    Chairman: Giovanni Zacher 09.30  C. Praeger, “Limits of finite vertex-primitive graphs” 10.20  A. Lev, “On the covering numbers of finite groups” 11.10  Coffee break 11.30  A. Regev, “On Hook numbers identities and some characters of the symmetric group” 12.20  A. Lucchini, “The X-Dirichlet polynomial of a finite group” 13.30  Lunch break Chairman: Marcel Herzog 15.30  G. Kaplan, “The existence of normal and characteristic subgroups in finite groups” 16.20  E. Spinelli, “Modular group algebras with maximal lower Lie-nilpotency indices” 16.40  A. Mann, “Probabilistic Z-functions for profinite and arithmetic groups” 17.30  Coffee break 18.30  Concert