[GAP Forum] conference on groups and computation

[Akos Seress]

Dear Forum Members:


A conference on Groups and Computation will be held at The Ohio State
University, in Columbus, Ohio, between March 17--21, 2008. The talks will
cover many areas of computational group theory and representation theory,
as well as exploring applications in group theory, combinatorics, and
geometry.

Some of the confirmed participants are
Henrik Baarnhielm, Alexander Borovik, Peter Brooksbank, John Cannon, 
Jon Carlson, Bettina Eick, Gerhard Hiss, Derek Holt, Charles Leedham-Green, 
Steve Linton, Frank Lubeck, Gunter Malle, Scott Murray, Max Neunhoeffer, 
Eamonn O'Brien, Tim Penttila, Cheryl Praeger, Alexander Ryba, 
Colva Roney-Dougal, James Wilson.

We have some funds for travel support. Students and postdocs in need of
travel assistance should contact the organizers:

William Kantor   kantor at math.uoregon.edu
Akos Seress      akos at math.ohio-state.edu

Further information, as becomes available, will be posted on the
conference website:

http://www.uoregon.edu/~kantor/conference.html