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SIGMAP 2014 Workshop

Symmetry In Graphs, Maps and Polytopes

Programme



All conference presentations will be in Worcester Suite.


Sunday 6th July

18:00 - 19:00    Registration, dinner

19:30                Welcome event (Dining room)

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Monday 7th July


07:45 - 08:45   Breakfast

08:55 - 09:00   Welcome

09:00 - 09:50   A. Ivić Weiss:   Chirality in polyhedra, polytopes and thin geometries (Invited lecture)

09:55 - 10:15   J. Moerenhout:   Chiral polytopes arising from almost simple groups with socle PSL(2,q)

10:20 - 10:45   Tea/Coffee

10:45 - 11:05   B. Monson:   Monodromy Groups of Polytopes

11:10 - 11:30   D. Leemans:   Abstract regular polytopes for the small Ree groups

11:35 - 11:55   E. Schulte:   Hereditary Polytopes

12:00 - 12:20   A. Montero:   Regular Polyhedra in 3-Torus

12:30 - 13:15   Lunch        ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

14:30 - 15:20   S. Du:   2-Arc-Transitive  regular covers of K_{n,n}-nK_2 having the covering
                                   transformation group Z_p^3 (Invited lecture)

15:25 - 15:45   G. Verret:   Arc-transitive graphs with large automorphism groups

15:50 - 16:15   Tea/Coffee

16:15 - 16:35   S. Wilson:   Large Stabilizers in Tetravalent Semisymmetric Graphs
                                         from Combinatorial LR Structures

16:40 - 17:00   L. Morgan:   Locally semiprimitive graphs

17:05 - 17:25   G. Rao:   Self-complementary metacirculants

17:30 - 17:50   M. Škoviera:   Hamilton cycles in truncated triangulations of closed surfaces

18:00 - 18:45   Dinner

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Tuesday 8th July

07:45 - 08:45   Breakfast

09:00 - 09:50   R. Nedela:   Nilpotent regular maps and dessins (Invited lecture)

09:55 - 10:15   J. Karabáš:   Discrete group actions and edge-transitive maps on a given surface

10:20 - 10:45   Tea/Coffee

10:45 - 11:05   D. Catalano:   Quadrangle groups inclusions

11:10 - 11:30   K. Stokes:   Pentagonal geometries as maps on surfaces and their symmetries

11:35 - 11:55   P. Dechant:   Platonic solids generate their four-dimensional analogues

12:00 - 12:20   T. Connor:   C-groups of PSL(2,q) and PGL(2,q)

12:30 - 13:15   Lunch        -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

14:15 - 14:35   N. García-Colín:   Projective Equivalences of k-neighbourly polytopes

14:40 - 15:00   D. Pelicer:   Generalized hemicuboctahedron

15:05 - 15:25   I. Hubard:   Chiral 4-polytopes with alternating or symmetric groups

15:30 - 15:50   M. E. Fernandes:   Extension of the classification of high rank regular polytopes

15:55 - 16:20   Tea/Coffee

16:20 - 16:40   R. Jajcay:   Skew-morphisms: A concept between group theory
                                        and topological graph theory

16:45 - 17:05   M. Bachratý:   Powers of skew-morphisms

17:10 - 17:30   Y. S. Kwon:   Classification of some Mobius regular maps

17:35 - 17:55    T. Tucker:   Symmetry of Immersed Surfaces in Euclidean 3-Space

18:00 - 18:45   Dinner

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Wednesday 9th July

07:45 - 08:45   Breakfast

09:00 - 09:50   D. Singerman:   Dessins d'enfants: A historical perspective (Invited lecture)

09:55 - 10:20   J. Wolfart:   Belyi functions, dessins, Galois actions, and regularity 1 (Invited lecture)

10:20 - 10:40   Tea/Coffee

10:40 - 11:05   J. Wolfart:   Belyi functions, dessins, Galois actions, and regularity 2 (Invited lecture)

11:10 - 12:00   G. A. Jones:   Galois and Hypermap Operations on Dessins (Invited lecture)

12:00 - 12:45   Lunch        ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

13:00 - 18:00   Excursion to Worcester Cathedral and Library (including a short organ recital)

18:00 - 18:45   Dinner

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Thursday 10th July

07:45 - 08:45   Breakfast

09:00 - 09:50   M. Conder:   Recent developments in the study of regular maps (Invited lecture)

09:55 - 10:15   S. Negami:   Faithful embedding of planar graphs on other surfaces

10:20 - 10:45   Tea/Coffee

10:45 - 11:05   W. Harvey:   Surface automorphisms

11:10 - 11:30   B. Fairbairn:   Recent work on Beauville Surfaces, Structures and Groups

11:35 - 11:55   E. Pierro:   New Examples of Mixed Beauville Groups

12:00 - 12:20   A. Melekoglu:   Mirror Automorphisms of Regular Maps

12:30 - 13:15   Lunch        ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

14:15 - 14:35   P. Guillot:   Elementary computations with the Grothendieck-Teichmûller group

14:40 - 15:00   A. Zvonkine:   Galois invariants of weighted trees

15:05 - 15:25   G. Malić:   Are there (non-trivial) matroidal Galois invariants of dessins?

15:30 - 15:50   J. Fine:   A tower of Galois invariants of dessins

15:55 - 16:20   Tea/Coffee

16:20 - 16:40   N. Bašić:   Splittable and unsplittable graphs and configurations

16:45 - 17:05   S. Zhou:   Nowhere-zero 3-flows in arc-transitive graphs on solvable groups

17:10 - 18:00   P. Potočnik:   Censuses of graphs and maps of certain symmetry types (Invited lecture)

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19:00               Conference Dinner

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Friday 11th July

07:45 - 08:45   Breakfast

09:00 - 12:00   Research morning with free discussions

12:00 - 12:45   Lunch        

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