VENEZIA

 
September 7-18th


2015


Summer School
on
Finite Groups
and
Related Geometrical Structures

in memory of Maria Silvia Lucido (1963-2008)



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PROGRAMME
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The Classification of the Finite Simple Groups
Recent Developments
and
A User's Manual



Course 1.

CFSG A User's Manual

(Applying the Classification of Finite Simple Groups)


Lectures by Stephen D. Smith

References

1.  M. Aschbacher, R. Lyons, S. Smith, R. Solomon,  The Classification of Finite Simple Groups - Groups of Characteristic 2 Type, AMS Mathematical Surveys and Monographs 172, 2011
 
2. R. Lyons, R. Solomon,  The Classification of the Finite Simple Groups, AMS Mathematical Surveys and Monographs 40.3, 1994

A preliminary version of the lectures can be downloaded here: 

  www.math.uic.edu/~smiths/talkvh.pdf




Course 2.

G_2, Amalgams, and Fusion Systems


Lectures by Gernot Stroth

References

1. R. A. Wilson, The Finite Simple Groups, Springer, 2009

2. C. Parker, G. Stroth, A family of fusion systems related to the groups $Sp_4(p^{a})$ and $G_2(p^{a})$, Archiv d. Mathematik 105 (2015), 311-323.






Beginning: Monday,  7th September, 2015 at 9.30am.

End: Friday, 18th September 2015 at 1.00pm.
 

Day schedule:

  9.30am - 11.00am: Lecture 1
11.00am - 11.30am: Break
11.30am -   1.00pm: Lecture 2

Class problem sections on Wednesday  9th, Friday 11th, Monday 14th, and Wednesday Sep. 16th
with the following schedule:

15.30pm - 16.30pm: Class problem section 1
16.30pm - 17.00pm: Break
17.00pm - 18.00pm: Class problem section 2

Course Banquet on Thursday, September 17th