Plenary Speakers

Robert Calderbank (Duke University)
Teaching Old Sequences New Tricks

Peter Cameron (University of St Andrews)
SEMPER  ABSTRACTA

Persi Diaconis (Stanford University)
Combinatorics and the Sylow theorems

Maria Elisa Fernandes (Universidade de Aveiro)
Independent sets and geometries for symmetric and alternating groups

Victoria Gould (University of York)
Diameter of pseudo-finite semigroups

Marianne Johnson (University of Manchester)
Forbidden configurations for coherency

Henrique Leitão (Universidade de Lisboa)
Alentejo in Science: Scientific Discussions at the Badajoz-Elvas Boards (1524)

Martin Liebeck (Imperial College London)
Fixed point spaces for actions of finite and algebraic groups

Eamonn O’Brien (University of Auckland)
Challenging problems for matrix groups

Cheryl Praeger (University of Western Australia)
(The Fun of) Working with Peter

Colva Roney-Dougal (University of St Andrews)
Bases and relational complexity

Gordon Royle (University of Western Australia)
Cubic graphs and spectral gap sets

Nik Ruskuc (University of St Andrews)
Heights of congruence lattices of semigroups

Pablo Spiga (University of Milano-Bicocca)
Kronecker classes, Isbell’s conjecture and derangement graphs

Mikhail V. Volkov
Completely Reachable Automata: an interplay between (semi)groups, finite automata,  and binary trees