Program

• Start: Monday 25 August 2025
• Finish: Friday 29 August 2025

We aim to have introductory sessions on GAP for students and researchers interested to use GAP to support their research. The invited speakers will present a minicourse addressing topics in algebra, group theory and discrete mathematics related to GAP, and provide some exercises for the students in parallel with working sessions for developpers.

Minicourses and invited talks

• Minicourse 1: Introduction to GAP
  by Lukas Schnelle and Meike Weiß

• Minicourse 2 by James Mitchell

• Special session in honor of Leonard Soicher

Detailed schedule

We will open with a meeting on Monday morning at 9:00. Around 9:30 we will coordinate plans for the week. We will have “standups” each day at around 9:30 and 17:00, to communicate what we plan to work on, and what we have worked on, respectively.

There will be a limited amount of room on the schedule for contributed talks.

The schedule is subject to further changes.

• Monday

  • 9:00 Welcome and opening
  • 9:30 Stand up and technical discussion
  • 9:45 Minicourse 1: lecture 1
  • 10:35 Coffee break
  • 11:00 Minicourse 1: exercises 1 / Parallel: working session for developers
  • 12:00 Lunch break
  • 14:00 Minicourse 1: lecture 2
  • 14.50 Coffee break
  • 15:15 Minicourse 1: exercises 2 / Parallel: working session for developers
  • 16:15 Discussion
  • 17:00 Stand up: Results from work sessions

• Tuesday

  • 9:30 Stand up and technical discussion
  • 9:45 Minicourse 1: lecture 3
  • 10:35 Coffee break
  • 11:00 Minicourse 1: exercises 3 / Parallel: working session for developers
  • 12:00 Lunch break
  • 14:00 Minicourse 2: lecture 1
  • 14.50 Coffee break
  • 15:15 Minicourse 2: exercises 1 / Parallel: working session for developers
  • 16:15 Contributed Talks
  • 17:00 Stand up: Results from work sessions

• Wednesday

  • 9:30 Stand up and technical discussion
  • 9:45 Minicourse 2: lecture 2
  • 10:35 Coffee break
  • 11:00 Minicourse 2: exercises 2 / Parallel: working session for developers
  • 12:00 Lunch break
  • 14:00 Minicourse 2: lecture 3
  • 14.50 Coffee break
  • 15:15 Minicourse 2: exercises 3 / Parallel: working session for developers
  • 16:15 Contributed Talks
  • 17:00 Stand up: Results from work sessions

• Thursday

  • 9:30 Stand up and technical discussion
  • 9:45 Contributed talks
  • 10:35 Coffee break
  • 11:00 Working session for developers
  • 12:00 Lunch break
  • 13:00 Session in honour of Leonard Soicher
    • 13:00-13:30 Talk: Cheryl Praeger (online)
    • 13:45-14:15 Talk: Charles Leedham-Green (online)
    • 14:15 Break
    • 14:45-15:15 Talk: Sarah Rees
    • 15:30-16:00 Talk: Rhys Evans
    • 16:00 Coffee break
    • 16:30-17:00 Talk: Frank Lübeck
    • 17:15-17:45 Talk: Bettina Eick
  • 18:00 End of day

• Friday

  • 9:30 Stand up and technical discussion
  • 9:45 Contributed talks
  • 10:35 Coffee break
  • 11:00 Working session for developers
  • 12:00 Lunch break
  • 14:00 Working session for developers
  • 15:00 Coffee and closing