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Tables of Contents for The Atlas of Finite Groups
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
vii
2
Addresses of registered participants
ix
4
Addresses of non-participating authors
xiii
1
Programme of lectures
xiv
2
Conference photograph and key
xvi
C.M. Campbell
G. Havas
S.A. Linton
E.F. Robertson
Symmetric presentations and orthogonal groups
1
10
F. Celler
C.R. Leedham-Green
A constructive recognition algorithm for the special linear group
11
16
J.H. Conway
C.S. Simons
Relations in M(666)
27
12
R.T. Curtis
A survey of symmetric generation of sporadic simple groups
39
19
G. Hiss
Harish-Chandra theory, q-Schur algebras, and decomposition matrices for finite classical groups
58
16
D.F. Holt
The Meataxe as a tool in computational group theory
74
8
J.F. Humphreys
Branching rules for modular projective representations of the symmetric groups
82
8
G.A. Jones
Characters and surfaces: a survey
90
29
W. Kimmerle
On the characterization of finite groups by characters
119
20
A.S. Kondratiev
Finite linear groups of small degree
139
10
W. Lempken
C. Parker
P. Rowley
Minimal parabolic systems for the symmetric and alternating groups
149
14
M.W. Liebeck
A. Shalev
Probabilistic methods in the generation of finite simple groups
163
11
K. Lux
M. Wiegelmann
Condensing tensor product modules
174
17
V.D. Mazurov
V.I. Zenkov
Intersections of Sylow subgroups in finite groups
191
7
S.P. Norton
Anatomy of the Monster. I
198
17
R.A. Parker
An integral `Meat-axe'
215
14
W. Plesken
Finite rational matrix groups: a survey
229
20
P. Rowley
Chamber graphs of sporadic group geometries
249
12
R.A. Wilson
An Atlas of sporadic group representations
261
13
F. Zara
Presentations of reductive Fischer groups
274
14
J.H. Conway
R.T. Curtis
R.A. Wilson
A brief history of the ATLAS
288