Below we give the dates, main speakers and titles of the talks for the conferences:
Groups St Andrews 1981
Held in St Andrews, Scotland, 25 July - 8 August 1981
Main Speakers
Joachim Neubüser (RWTH Aachen)
An elementary introduction to coset table methods in computational group theory
Derek Robinson (Urbana)
Applications of cohomology to the theory of groups
Sean Tobin (Galway)
Groups with exponent four
Jim Wiegold (Cardiff)
The Schur multiplier: an elementary approach
Groups St Andrews 1985
Held in St Andrews, Scotland, 27 July - 10 August 1985
Main Speakers
Seymour Bachmuth (Santa Barbara)
Automorphisms of solvable groups
Gilbert Baumslag (CUNY)
A survey of groups with a single defining relation
Peter Neumann (Oxford)
Some algorithms for computing with finite permutation groups
Jim Roseblade (Cambridge)
Five lectures on group rings
Jacques Tits (Paris)
Buildings and group amalgamations
Groups St Andrews 1989
Held in St Andrews, Scotland, 29 July - 12 August 1989
Main Speakers
Sandy Green (Warwick)
Schur algebras and general linear groups
Narain Gupta (Manitoba)
Integral dimension subgroups
Otto Kegel (Freiburg)
Existentially closed finitary linear groups
Sasha Ol'shanskii (Moscow)
Some applications of graded diagrams in combinatorial group theory
John Thompson (Cambridge)
Galois groups
Groups St Andrews 1993 in Galway
Held in Galway, Ireland, 1 August - 14 August 1993
Main Speakers
Jon Alperin (Chicago)
Geometry, Steinberg representations and complexity
Michel Broué (Paris)
Rickard equivalences and block theory
Peter Kropholler (Queen Mary College, London)
Cohmological finiteness conditions
Alex Lubotzky (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Counting finite index subgroups
Efim Zelmanov (Wisconsin-Madison)
Lie methods in group theory
Groups St Andrews 1997 in Bath
Held in Bath, England, 26 July - 9 August 1997
Main Speakers
Laszlo Babai (Chicago)
A polynomial-time theory of black box groups
Martin Bridson (Oxford)
Non-positive curvature in group theory
Chris Brookes (Cambridge)
Group-theoretic applications of non-commutative toric geometry
Cheryl Praeger (Western Australia)
Primitive prime divisor elements in finite classical groups
Aner Shalev (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Probabilistic group theory
Groups St Andrews 2001 in Oxford
Held in Oxford, England, 5 August - 18 August 2001
Main Speakers
Marston Conder (Auckland)
Group actions on graphs, maps and surfaces with maximum symmetry
Persi Diaconis (Stanford)
Random walks on groups: characters and geometry
Peter Palfy (Eötvös Loránd, Budapest)
Groups and lattices
Marcus du Sautoy (Cambridge),
Zeta functions of groups: the quest for order versus the flight from ennui
Mike Vaughan-Lee (Christ Church, Oxford)
Lie methods in group theory
Groups St Andrews 2005
Held in St Andrews, Scotland, 30 July - 6 August 2005
Main Speakers
Peter Cameron (Queen Mary, London)
Aspects of infinite permutation groups;
Slava Grigorchuk (Texas A&M)
On self-similarity and branching in group theory
John Meakin (Nebraska-Lincoln)
Interactions between group theory and semigroup theory
Akos Seress (Ohio State)
Graphs, automorphisms, and product action
Groups St Andrews 2009
Held in Bath, England, 1 August - 15 August 2009
Main Speakers
Gerhard Hiss (RWTH, Aachen, Germany)
Finite groups of Lie type and their representations
Volodymyr Nekrashevych (Texas A&M, Texas, USA)
Iterated monodromy groups
Dan Segal (All Souls College, Oxford)
Words and groups
Eamonn O'Brien (Auckland, New Zealand)
Effective algorithmic approaches for linear groups
Mark Sapir (Vanderbilt, Nashville, USA)
Residually finite groups, random walks and dynamics of polynomial maps over p-adics
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