Conference Programme
09:00-09.45   Gareth Jones (Southampton), Automorphism groups of Beauville surfaces   [Keynote talk]
09:45-10:10   Young Soo Kwon (Yeungnam), Classification of some regular Cayley maps on dihedral groups
10:10-10:35   Ian Wanless (Melbourne), Autotopisms of Latin squares
10:35-11:00   Tea/coffee
11:00-11:25   Tomaz Pisanski (Ljubljana), GI graphs and their groups
11:25-11:50   Marsha Minchenko (Melbourne), Some vertex transitive Integral graphs
11:50-12:05   Jan Karabas (Banska Bystrica), Discrete group actions on orientable surfaces   [15 mins]
12:05-12:30   Yanquan Feng (Beijing), One-regular graphs
12:30-14:00   Lunch
14:00-14:45   Brendan McKay (Canberra), Computing the symmetries of combinatorial objects   [Keynote talk]
14:45-15:10   Steve Wilson (Flagstaff), Tricirculant edge-transitive tetravalent graphs
15:10-15:35   Sanming Zhou (Melbourne), Gossiping and routing in second-kind Frobenius graphs
15:35-16:00   Tea/coffee
16:00-16:45   Don Taylor (Sydney), Overview of Magma   [MAGMA mini-course, Part 1]
16:45-17:30   Dimitri Leemans (Auckland), Permutation groups   [MAGMA mini-course, Part 1]
09:45-10:10   Aleksander Malnic (Ljubljana), On the split structure of lifted groups, I
10:10-10:35   Rok Pozar (Ljubljana), On the split structure of lifted groups, II
10:35-11:00   Tea/coffee
11:00-11:25   Thomas Tucker (Hamilton, NY), Distinguishing maps: angles, cliques, and transpositions
11:25-11:50   Wilfried Imrich (Leoben), Distinguishing infinite graphs
11:50-12:05   Martin Macaj (Bratislava), On the Wilson operators   [15 mins]
12:05-12:30   Frank Nijhoff (Leeds), A new variational principle for discrete integrable systems
12:30-14:00   Lunch
14:00-14:25   Problem session 1
14:25-14:50   Milagros Izquierdo (Linkoping), On the connectedness of the branch locus of moduli spaces of Riemann surfaces   [15 mins+]
14:50-15:35   Eamonn O'Brien (Auckland), Matrix groups   [MAGMA mini-course, Part 1]
15:35-16:00   Tea/coffee
16:00-16:45   Marston Conder (Auckland), Finitely-presented groups   [MAGMA mini-course, Part 1]
16:45-17:30   Dimitri Leemans (Auckland), Subgroup structure   [MAGMA mini-course, Part 2]
09:45-10:10   Michael Giudici (Perth), On imprimitive rank 3 permutation groups
10:10-10:35   Sang-Eon Han (Jeonbuk, Korea), Existence of non-ultra regular covering spaces whose automorphism groups are not trivial
10:35-11:00   Tea/coffee
11:00-11:25   Alexander Ivanov (London), Towards identification of the Majorana representations of A_12
11:25-11:50   Grzegorz Gromadzki (Gdansk), On finite groups of self-homeomorphisms of compact topological surfaces with invariant subsets
11:50-12:05   Young Ho Kim (Kyungpook, Korea), Chord properties in Euclidean geometry   [15 mins]
12:05-12:30   Jozef Siran (Bratislava), Imprimitivity of locally finite, 1-ended, planar graphs
12:30-13:30   Lunch
13:45- Excursion
09:45-10:10   Shaofei Du (Beijing), Regular embeddings of multipartite graphs
10:10-10:35   Katja Bercic (Ljubljana), Arc-transitive graphs of order 2pq
10:35-11:00   Tea/coffee
11:00-11:25   Akos Seress (Perth/Columbus), The diameter of permutation groups
11:25-11:50   Bernardo Rodrigues (Natal), Codes from lattice and related graphs, and permutation decoding
11:50-12:05   Klavdija Kutnar (Koper), Quasi m-Cayley strongly regular graphs   [15 mins]
12:05-12:30   Jin-Xin Zhou (Beijing), On vertex-transitive non-Cayley graphs
12:30-14:00   Lunch
14:00-14:25   Problem session 2
14:25-14:50   Wujie Shi (Chongqing), The quantitative characterization of all finite simple groups   [15 mins+]
14:50-15:35   Don Taylor (Sydney), Coxeter groups and complex reflection groups   [MAGMA mini-course, Part 2]
15:35-16:00   Tea/coffee
16:00-16:45   Eamonn O'Brien (Auckland), Polycyclic groups   [MAGMA mini-course, Part 2]
16:45-17:30   Marston Conder (Auckland), Finitely-presented groups, cont.   [MAGMA mini-course, Part 2]
09:45-10:10   Gunter Steinke (Christchurch), 2-transitivity in finite circle geometries
10:10-10:35   Ittay Weiss (Fiji), Towards a geometry of operads: dendroidal polytopes
10:35-11:00   Tea/coffee
11:00-11:25   Juergen Wolfart (Frankfurt), Galois actions on regular dessins of small genera
11:25-11:40   Izumi Miyamoto (Yamanashi), Computation of normalizers of intransitive permutation groups in symmetric groups   [15 mins]
11:40-11:55   Pedram Hekmati (Adelaide), Group cocycles and higher representation theory   [15 mins]
11:55-12:00   Closing
12:00-13:30   Lunch
We are grateful to the following organisations for their support of this conference:
   
Symmetries of Discrete Objects
   
Conference and MAGMA Workshop
Queenstown, New Zealand, 12-17 February 2012
Abstracts for all talks (including the MAGMA mini-courses) can be downloaded in a pdf file
from here.
Monday 13th February
08:45-09:00   Welcome and opening remarks [Marston Conder and Tomaz Pisanski]
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Tuesday 14th February
09:00-09.45   Ruth Kellerhals (Fribourg), Highly symmetric hyperbolic polytopes   [Keynote talk]
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Wednesday 15th February
09:00-09.45   Barry Monson (New Brunswick), Abstract polytopes: regular, semiregular and chiral   [Keynote talk]
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Thursday 16th February
09:00-09.45   Gabriel Verret (Ljubljana), A census of cubic vertex-transitive graphs   [Keynote talk]
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Friday 17th February
09:00-09.45   Martin Liebeck (London), Orbits of linear groups   [Keynote talk]
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Organising Committee
Sponsors
Support from the European Science Foundation comes through the EuroCoREs
programme, and in particular, thanks to the involvement of numerous participants
in the GReGAS project of the
EuroGIGA
collaborative research programme on Graphs in Geometry and Algorithms.