Program

• Start: Monday 17^th October 2022 at 10:00
• Finish: Friday 21^st October 2022 at 15:00

Detailed schedule

We will open with a meeting at 10:00 on Monday to coordinate plans for the week, and follow a pattern of “Standups” each day at around 9:00 and 16:30, to communicate what we plan to work on, and what we have worked on, respectively. We will close the meeting at around 15:00 on Friday.

This schedule is preliminary. Additional events will be added soon.

• Monday
  • 10:00: Opening of the GAP Days
  • 10:20 - 10:50: Setup Session
  • 11:00 - 11:30: Talk by Leonard Soicher: Clique and design finding in parallel using GAP, GRAPE, DESIGN and C (abstract, slides)
  • 12:00: Lunch break
  • 14:15 - 14:45: Talk by Max Horn: Introduction to MatrixObj (slides)
  • 14:45 - 16:30: Work session
  • 16:30: Stand-up meeting
  • 20:00: Get-together at Guinness House
• Tuesday
  • 9:00 - 9:15: Stand-up meeting
  • 9:20: Package Session Part 1
    • 9:20 - 9:35: vole by Christopher Jefferson
    • 9:45 - 10:00: StandardFF by Frank Lübeck
    • 10:10 - 10:25: LINS by Friedrich Rober (slides only open it with Adobe Acrobat Reader. Otherwise the animations dont work)
    • 10:35 - 10:50: SOTGrps by Eileen Pan (slides)
  • 11:00 - 12:00: Work session
  • 12:00: Lunch break
  • 13:20: Group photo (please be there)
  • 13:30: Package Session Part 2
    • 13:30 - 13:50: Simplicial Surfaces by Tom Görtzen, Reymond Akpanya and Meike Weiß (slides)
    • 14:00 - 14:15: WPE by Friedrich Rober (slides only open it with Adobe Acrobat Reader. Otherwise the animations dont work)
    • 14:25 - 14:40: BruhatDecomposition by Daniel Rademacher (slides)
  • 14:50 - 16:30: Work session
  • 16:30: Stand-up meeting
• Wednesday
  • 9:00 - 9:15: Stand-up meeting
  • 9:20 - 9:50: Talk by Mun See Chang: Computing Normalisers (abstract)
  • 10:00 - 10:30: Talk by Ruth Hoffmann: GAP for Permutation Pattern Classes (abstract)
  • 10:40 - 12:00: Work session
  • 12:00: Lunch
  • 13:00 - 16:30: Work session
  • 16:30: Stand-up meeting
  • 19:00: Dinner at Magellan (Google Maps)
• Thursday
  • 9:00 - 9:15: Stand-up meeting
  • 9:20 - 9:35: Talk by Fatemeh Koorepazan-Moftakhar An algorithm for constructing all supercharacter theories of a finite group (slides)
  • 9:45 - 10:15: Talk by Iryna Raievska and Maryna Raievska: Finite local nearrings and their classification (abstract) (slides)
  • 10:15 - 12:00: Work session
  • 12:00: Lunch
  • 13:00 - 16:30: Work session
  • 16:30: Stand-up meeting
• Friday
  • 9:00 - 9:15: Stand-up meeting
  • 9:15 - 11:40: Work session
  • 11:40 - 12:00: Time for Feedback
  • 12:00: Lunch
  • 13:00 - 15:00: Work session
  • 15:00: Closing of the GAP Days

Topics and projects

The overarching theme of these GAP Days will be Matrix Objects. If you have any queries or suggestions, then please do not hesitate to contact the organisers.

1. Overview of existing Matrix Objects code in GAP

2. Goals for new Matrix Object functionalities