Talks from the NETCA Instructional Workshop

Main Speakers

George Havas -- Computations with Finitely Presented Groups

• Lectures 1 and 2: LaTeX PDF
• Lecture 3: LaTeX PDF
• Lab session: LaTeX PDF
• LaTeX class file

Gerhard Hiß -- Representation Theory in and with GAP

• Lecture 1: PDF PS DVI
• Lecture 2: PDF PS DVI
• Lecture 3: PDF PS DVI
• Practical Handout: PDF

Alice Niemeyer -- Aspects of Recognition Algorithms

The slides are available as a series of 96 JPEG images.

General Lectures on GAP -- Steve Linton

• Welcome to the Workshop: LaTeX PDF
• Introduction to GAP: LaTeX PDF Handout
• GAP Programming: LaTeX PDF Handout
• GAP Packages: LaTeX PDF
• Practical worksheet: LaTeX PDF

Contributed Lectures

• Marco Costantini: How to Calculate Jenning Series in Polynomial Time
• Ilia Kazatchkkov: Algorithms for Artin Groups
• Robert Lockhart: How not to calculate Cohomology Groups
• Marco Costantini: Linking GAP and Singular
• Peter Brooksbank: Constructive Recognition