Jon Hall 75
Group Theory and Its Neighboring Disciplines

Time and Location

August 16-18, 2024
University of Denver

All talks: Olin Hall 105, 2190 E Iliff Ave, Denver, CO 80210
Reception: Olin Hall Rotunda, August 16, 6pm-9pm
Conference banquet: August 17, 7pm, Rock Bottom Restaurant & Brewery, Denver, $50

Topics

The conference will honor and highlight the work of Professor Jon Hall on the occasion of his 75th birthday.

Topics covered by the conference include group theory, representation theory, Lie theory, group cohomology, non-associative algebraic structures, computational group theory, combinatorics, discrete geometry, and coding theory.

Speakers and Invited Participants

Monther Alfuraidan (King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals)
Daniel Allcock (University of Texas at Austin)
Barbara Baumeister (University of Bielefeld)
Hans Cuypers (Technische Universiteit Eindhoven)
Ales Drapal (Charles University)
Clara Franchi (Catholic University of Sacred Heart)
Bob Griess (University of Michigan)
Kenneth Johnson (Penn State Abington)
Bill Kantor (University of Oregon)
Michael Kinyon (University of Denver)
Mark Lewis (Kent State University)
Richard Lyons (Rutgers University)
Mario Mainardis (University of Udine)
William Martin (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
Dan Nakano (University of Georgia)
Guillermo Nunez Ponasso (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
Cheryl Praeger (University of Western Australia)
Gerardo Raggi (UNAM Morelia)
Julianne Rainbolt (Saint Louis University)
Igor Rapinchuk (Michigan State University)
Bernardo Rodrigues (University of Pretoria)
Yoav Segev (Ben-Gurion University)
Sergey Shpectorov (University of Birmingham)
Jonathan Smith (Iowa State University)
Steve Smith (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Justin Stevenson (Iowa State University)
Simon Thomas (Rutgers University)
Pham Tiep (Rutgers University)
Hung Tong-Viet (Binghamton University)
Richard Weiss (Tufts University)
Tingyao Xiong (Radford University)

* = tentative

Organizers

Nguyen N. Hung (University of Akron, )
Mandi Schaeffer Fry (University of Denver, )
Petr Vojtechovsky (University of Denver, )

Sponsors

The conference is supported by a grant from the National Security Agency and by the Department of Mathematics at the University of Denver.

Registration

Please contact all three organizers if you would like to attend the conference and/or be considered for support. Some support has already been awarded. Deadline for support requests (with estimated expenditures) is May 31, 2024.

Useful links

Preliminary program of the conference.
Printable campus map (Olin Hall is #16 G-4, the Math Department is in Knudson Hall #11 H-5).
Maps and directions from the University of Denver.
Photos of Olin Hall and the lecture room.