St Andrews Polycyclic Groups and Cryptologic Applications

	St Andrews PolyCyclic Groups and Cryptologic Applications Seminar To receive announcements, join this group or present any related work; please send an email to dk16@st-and.ac.uk


Members	Björn Assmann Paul Buenau Andrew J. Ferguson Delaram Kahrobaei Stephen Linton John McDermott Martyn Quick Colva Roney-Dougal


Schedule	25-05-05 [cancelled]	Derek Holt (Invited Guest Speaker)	Complexity of the Word Problem in Nilpotent Groups
	11-05-05 [cancelled]	Delaram Kahrobaei	The algorithmic theory of polycyclic-by-finite groups
	04-05-05	Colva Roney-Dougal	Factor groups and homomorphisms of Polycyclic Groups
	20-04-05	Colva Roney-Dougal	Subgroups of Polycyclic Groups
	Spring Break	St Andrews Spring Break	Spring Break
	23-03-05	Martyn Quick (with CIRCA Seminar)	Introduction to Profinite Groups [Slides]
	16,23-03-05	Björn Assmann	Extensions and Implementation [Slides]
	17-02-05	Jim Howie (Invited Guest Speaker) (with Pure Math Colloquium)	Complexity of the Conjugacy Problem in Hyperbolic Groups [PDF] [Slides]
	09-02-05	Stephen Linton	Collection Algorithm
	Winter Break	Winter Break	Winter Break
	15-12-04	Delaram Kahrobaei	Polycyclic Presentations
	08-12-04	Colva Roney-Dougal	Introduction to Polycyclic Sequences
	01-12-04	Martyn Quick	Soluble Linear Groups II
	24-11-04	Martyn Quick	Soluble Linear Groups I
	17-11-04	Björn Assmann	Mal'cev's Theorems
	10-11-04	St Andrews Reading Week	No meeting this week
	04-11-04	Delaram Kahrobaei	Some "Good" Theorems about Polycyclic Groups
	03-11-04	Stephen Linton	Nilpotency

References	Polycyclic Groups: A New Platform for Cryptology. B.Eick, D. Kahrobaei, arXiv:math/0411077 Polycyclic Groups, D. Segal, Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1983 The algorithmic theory of polycyclic-by-finite groups, Baumslag, G.; Cannonito, F.B.; Robinson, D.J.; Segal, D., J. Algebra 142 (1991), no. 1, 118--149 Algorithms for Polycyclic Groups, B.Eick, Thesis, Universitat Kassel, 2001 Generalized Key-Exchange Problems and Nilpotent Groups, D.Kahrobaei, 2003, Preprint


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