Program

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

Minicourses and invited talks

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

  1. Getting started in GAP
  2. Programming in GAP: Working on problems from scratch
  3. GAP Packages and Libraries: Using existing GAP infrastructure

• Minicourse 2: The Digraphs package for GAP - zero to hero
  by James Mitchell

  1. What is Digraphs? Overview + capabilities
  2. Some examples of using Digraphs in mathematical research
  3. Getting involved, make a contribution

• Special session in honor of Leonard Soicher

  List of speakers:

  • Bettina Eick
  • Charles Leedham-Green (online)
  • Cheryl Praeger (online)
  • Frank Lübeck
  • Rhys Evans
  • Sarah Rees

Reception

On Thursday, we will hold a social event. If you would like to participate, please sign-up using this form.

Event details:

• Day: Thursday
• Time: 18:30
• Place: Foresteria Caffe Bar (Entrance via Tito Trg or Garibaldijeva Ulica)

Detailed schedule

• Monday
  • 9:00 Welcome and opening
  • 9:30 Stand up and technical discussion
  • 9:45 Minicourse 1: Session 1A - Getting started in GAP Slides 1
  • 10:35 Coffee break
  • 11:00 Minicourse 1: Session 1B - Getting started in GAP / Parallel: working session for developers Exercises 1
  • 12:00 Lunch break
  • 14:00 Minicourse 1: Session 2A - Programming in GAP: Working on problems from scratch Slides 2
  • 14.50 Coffee break
  • 15:15 Minicourse 1: Session 2B - Programming in GAP: Working on problems from scratch / Parallel: working session for developers Exercises 2
  • 16:15 Discussion
  • 17:00 Stand up: Results from work sessions
  • 20:30 Social event: Informal pub evening “Medvedković seminar” at Rampin
• Tuesday
  • 9:30 Stand up and technical discussion
  • 9:45 Minicourse 1: Session 3A - GAP Packages and Libraries: Using existing GAP infrastructure Slides 3
  • 10:35 Coffee break
  • 11:00 Minicourse 1: Session 3B - GAP Packages and Libraries: Using existing GAP infrastructure / Parallel: working session for developers Exercises 3
  • 12:00 Lunch break
  • 14:00 Minicourse 2: Session 1A - What is Digraphs? Overview + capabilities Slides
  • 14.50 Coffee break
  • 15:15 Minicourse 2: Session 1B - Getting started with Digraphs (exercises) / Parallel: working session for developers Exercises
  • 16:15 Contributed Talks
    • 16:15 Talk: “Computer assisted proof of the tree module property, using GAP and Clean” (István Szöllősi)
    • 16:40 Talk: “OscarAICoder: Turning Mathematical Language into Computation” (Vinay Wagh)
  • 17:00 Stand up: Results from work sessions
• Wednesday
  • 9:30 Stand up and technical discussion
  • 9:45 Minicourse 2: Session 2A - Some examples of using Digraphs in mathematical research
  • 10:35 Coffee break
  • 11:00 Minicourse 2: Session 2B - Exercises / Parallel: working session for developers
  • 12:00 Lunch break
  • 14:00 Minicourse 2: Session 3A - Getting involved, make a contribution
  • 14.50 Coffee break
  • 15:15 Minicourse 2: Session 3B - Exercises / Parallel: working session for developers
  • 16:15 Contributed Talks
    • 16:15 Talk: “What is new, and old, in Gap.app” (Russ Woodroofe)
    • 16:40 Talk: “Computing trivial source modules and their character tables using GAP” (Bernhard Böhmler) (abstract)
  • 17:00 Stand up: Results from work sessions
• Thursday
  • 9:30 Stand up and technical discussion
  • 9:45 Extended discussion
  • 10:35 Coffee break
  • 11:00 Working session for developers
  • 11:30 Lunch break
  • 13:00 Session in honour of Leonard Soicher
    • 13:00-13:30 Talk: “Some of what I’ve learned from Leonard” (Cheryl Praeger, online)
    • 13:45-14:15 Talk: “Computing the intersection of matrix groups” (Charles Leedham-Green, online)
    • 14:15 Break
    • 14:45-15:15 Talk: “Developing a practical algorithm for GRAPE” (Sarah Rees) (abstract)
    • 15:30-16:00 Talk: “Orderly generation of generating sets” (Rhys Evans)
    • 16:00 Coffee break
    • 16:30-17:00 Talk: “Permutation characters from parabolic subgroups and Green functions” (Frank Lübeck) (abstract)
    • 17:15-17:45 Talk: “Some history” (Bettina Eick)
  • 18:00 End of day
  • 18:30 Social event: Reception (sign-up form)
• 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