Undergraduate Research Forum (SPUR 2017)

Students directed by Keith Dennis
Short talks in the area of generating sequences of finite groups

Thursday, August 10, 2017 - 1:00pm
Malott 406

1:00 – 1:30
Finding $m$ of simple groups and their wreath products
Minh Nguyen (Stony Brook University) and Sophie Le (Mount Holyoke College)

1:35 – 2:00
MaxDim and the subgroup lattice
Tianyue Liu (Case Western Reserve University) and Niu Wenjun (Fudan University)

2:05 – 2:15
Computation of group invariants with Magma and GAP
Benjamin Hughes (University of Virginia)

2:20 – 2:30
Examples where $MaxDim > m$
Ellie Thieu (Amherst College)

2:35 – 2:55
The replacement property for $PSL(2,q)$ and $C$-group theory
Hector Li (Cornell University) and Hy Lam (University of California, Berkeley)