University of Sydney Algebra Seminar

Colva Roney-Dougal (University of St Andrews, Scotland)

Friday 11th February, 12.05-12.55pm, Carslaw 173

Classifying primitive groups

This talk will start with a gentle introduction to permutation groups, and the history of the classification of primitive permutation groups. I'll then discuss the techniques used in my recent classification of the primitive groups of degree up to 2500.