Venue: Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad

This program combines a workshop and conference covering a broad range of modern and currently very active areas of the theory of finite groups, encompassing computational techniques as well as applications. In particular, general techniques for matrix and permutation groups, the classification of and computations with p-groups, an introduction to finite simple groups, and actions of finite groups on Riemann surfaces will be addressed.

The program will have two parts:

Workshop, September 01-09, 2010, consisting of some five series of four two-hour lectures each, aiming at introducing graduate students and young post-doctoral researchers to these fields. In particular, guided practical instructions to the use of the computer algebra system GAP will be included.

Conference, September 10-12, 2010, leading to the frontiers of current research. Experts in the above fields will present new and recent research results. This is intended both to disseminate results and current problems across the borders between the various specialties, as well as to get the younger participants deeper interested in these fields.