SECOND MAGMA CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL ALGEBRA

Tuesday, May 14


Photos of some of the speakers and abstracts of some of the talks can be found in the full list of speakers.


ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY
09:00--09:50 [Invited Lecture] B Poonen (Princeton): Computational Aspects 
             of Curves of Genus at least 2
10:00--10:25 M A Shokrollahi (with J Buhler, R Crandall, R Ernvall, 
             T Metsankyla): Irregular Primes to Eight Million

10:30--11:00 Coffee Break

GROUP THEORY
11:00--11:25 S Norton (Cambridge): Computing in the Monster
11:30--11:55 Alex Ryba (Marquette): Embeddings of PSL_2(q) in E_8(C)

SYSTEM PRESENTATION
12:00--13:00 D Grayson (UIC): Macauley 2

13:00--14:00 Lunch and Poster Session

MODULE THEORY
14:00--14:50 [Invited Lecture] J Carlson (Athens): Computer Calculations 
             of Modules and Cohomology
15:00--15:25 R Bruner (Wayne State):  The Cohomology of Augmented Algebras
15:30--15:55 S Siegel (Northwestern): On the Cohomology of Split Extensions 
             of Elementary Abelian 2-groups 

16:30--16:30 Coffee Break

MAGMA WORKSHOP
16:30--17:45 J Carlson (Athens): Module Theory
17:15--18:00 B Cox (Sydney): Permutation and Matrix Groups
18:00--18:30 Laboratory Session


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