MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS

MATH 769 Computational Group Theory

2010-2011 FALL Semester Web Page

Instructor

Gülin ERCAN

Office Hours

To Be Announced

Lecture Hours

Monday 10:40-11:30 * (M-214)

Wednesday 10:40-12:30 (M-231)

Wednesday 13:40-14:30 ** (M-215)

One of * and ** will be held

Syllabus

GAP Visual Group Theory

Textbooks

o D.F. Holt, B. Eick, E.A. O’Brien, Handbook of computational group theory, Chapman & Hall/CRC, c2005

o Ákos Seress. Permutation Group Algorithms. Cambridge University Press, 2003

o C.C. Sims, Computation with finitely presented groups, Cambridge University Press 1994, ISBN 0521432138

Course Assessment
Class Presentations, Homeworks

Expectations of written work
Homeworks will be computer exercises in GAP. An essential part of what you hand in for these exercises will be a transcript of a GAP session, but it will help if you insert explanatory comments. We do prefer to see a hard copy of what you have done.

We encourage you to form study groups. However everything to be handed in must be written up in your own words. If two students hand in identical assignments, they will both receive no credit.