CONFERENCE ON THE LOCAL AND GLOBAL ANALYSIS OF GROUPS AND RELATED OBJECTS

 

in honor of GEORGE GLAUBERMAN

 

THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO

MONDAY MARCH 24, 2008 --FRIDAY MARCH 28, 2008

Organizing Committee: Diane Herrmann (Chicago), Carlo Scoppola (L'Aquila), Ron Solomon (Ohio State), Alex Turull (Florida)

PRINCIPAL SPEAKERS:

Jonathan Alperin, Michael Aschbacher, Andrew Chermak, Paul Flavell, Robert L. Griess, Jr., I. Martin Isaacs, Andrei Jaikin-Zapirain, Radha Kessar, Evgenii Khukhro, Charles Leedham-Green, Andrea Lucchini, Valerio Monti, Adriana Nenciu, Bob Oliver, Geoffrey R. Robinson, Said Sidki, Peter Sin, Stephen D. Smith, Ron Solomon, Bhama Srinivasan, Bernd Stellmacher, Alexandre Turull, John S. Wilson, Larry Wilson, Efim Zelmanov.

JUNIOR SPEAKERS:

Edith Adan-Bante, Tim Bonner, Tim Burness, Ben Fairbairn, Michael Geline, Simon Guest, Nate Iverson, Tung Le, Marta Morigi, Silvia Onofrei, Sejong Park, Valentina Russo, Rebecca Waldecker, James B. Wilson, Yang Yong.

Registration will take place on Monday, March 24th from 10am to 1pm, in Eckhart Hall, Room 210.

Principal lectures will be in Ryerson, Room 251. Tea breaks will be in Eckhart Hall, Room 209.

Click here for the titles, abstracts and a schedule [0] of principal and short lectures.

Thursday afternoon will be reserved for short lectures by junior researchers in three parallel sessions, running from 2:40 pm to 5 pm. These lectures will be in Ryerson 251, Eckhart 133, and Eckhart 202.

In addition to the lectures, there will be a conference softball game on Wednesday afternoon and a conference banquet dinner on Thursday evening at 7 pm. The cost of the banquet dinner will be $60/person.  There will be a cash bar preceding the dinner. 

A block of rooms has been reserved at the Ramada Lake Shore at the rate of $99/night. [Call 1-773-288-5800 between 9 am and 5 pm CST, and ask for Marilyn Moore. Keywords are: University of Chicago Math Department, Glauberman Conference (3/23-2/30/08), and Marcia Cozzi (contact person at the UC Math Department).] Some guest rooms (with shared bathroom) may also be available at the International House, 1414 E. 59th Street, at the rate of $70/night (1-773-753-2270).

NOTE: In the spirit of life, the conference will take place during the month in which George's age will attain the cardinality of the 18th (= chai-th) finite simple group of odd order. We shall raise a glass in celebration at the banquet dinner.

The conference has received generous funding support from the National Security Agency, the National Science Foundation, the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, the Department of Mathematics of the University of Chicago, and the Department of Pure and Applied Mathematics of the University of L'Aquila.

If you wish to participate, please contact our local organizer Diane Herrmann (diane@math.uchicago.edu [1]).

If you wish to join for the banquet dinner, please indicate this. If you have special dietary restrictions, please let us know. Further information about the banquet menu will be posted at a later date.

Persons with a disability who believe they may need assistance, please call (773) 702-7100.