Groups St Andrews 2017 in Birmingham

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Introduction
1. Finite simple groups and fusion systems Michael Aschbacher
2. Finite and infinite quotients of discrete and indiscrete groups Pierre-Emmanuel Caprace
3. Local-global conjectures and blocks of finite simple groups Radha Kessar and Gunter Malle
4. A survey on some methods of generating finite simple groups Ayoub B. M. Basheer and Jamshid Moori
5. One-relator groups: an overview Gilbert Baumslag, Benjamin Fine and Gerhard Rosenberger
6. New progress in products of conjugacy classes in finite groups Antonio Beltrán, María José Felipe and Carmen Melchor
7. Aspherical relative presentations all over again William A. Bogley, Martin Edjvet and Gerald Williams
8. Simple groups, generation and probabilistic methods Timothy C. Burness
9. Irreducible subgroups of simple algebraic groups – a survey Timothy C. Burness and Donna M. Testerman
10. Practical computation with linear groups over infinite domains A. S. Detinko and D. L. Flannery
11. Beauville p-groups: a survey Ben Fairbairn
12. Structural criteria in factorised groups via conjugacy class sizes María José Felipe, Ana Martínez-Pastor and Víctor Manuel Ortiz-Sotomayor
13. Growth in linear algebraic groups and permutation groups: towards a unified perspective Harald A. Helfgott
14. L2-Betti numbers and their analogues in positive characteristic Andrei Jaikin-Zapirain
15. On the pronormality of subgroups of odd index in finite simple groups Anatoly Kondrat'ev, Natalia Maslova and Danila Revin
16. Vertex stabilizers of graphs with primitive automorphism groups and a strong version of the Sims conjecture Anatoly S. Kondrat'ev and Vladimir I. Trofimov
17. On the character degrees of a Sylow p-subgroup of a finite Chevalley group G(pf) over a bad prime Tung Le, Kay Magaard and Alessandro Paolini
18. Patterns on symmetric Riemann surfaces Adnan Melekoğlu and David Singerman
19. Subgroups of twisted wreath products Péter P. Pálfy
20. Some remarks on self-dual codes invariant under almost simple permutation groups B. G. Rodrigues and T. M. Mudziiri Shumba
21. Test elements: from pro-p to discrete groups Ilir Snopce and Slobodan Tanushevski.

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