The atlas of finite groups - ten years on

Cover......Page 1
Title Page......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Introduction......Page 8
Addresses of registered participants......Page 10
Addresses of non-participating authors......Page 14
Programme of lectures......Page 15
Conference photograph and key......Page 16
Symmetric presentations and orthogonal groups......Page 20
A constructive recognition algorithm for the special linear group......Page 30
Relations in M666......Page 46
A survey of symmetric generation of sporadic simple groups......Page 58
Harish-Chandra theory, q-Schur algebras, and decomposition matrices for finite classical groups......Page 77
The Meataxe as a tool in computational group theory......Page 93
Branching rules for modular projective representations of the symmetric groups......Page 101
Characters and surfaces: a survey......Page 109
On the characterization of finite groups by characters......Page 138
Finite linear groups of small degree......Page 158
Minimal parabolic systems for the symmetric and alternating groups......Page 168
Probabilistic methods in the generation of finite simple groups......Page 182
Condensing tensor product modules......Page 193
Intersections of Sylow subgroups in finite groups......Page 210
Anatomy of the Monster. I......Page 217
An integral 'Meat-axe'......Page 234
Finite rational matrix groups: a survey......Page 248
Chamber graphs of sporadic group geometries......Page 268
An Atlas of sporadic group representations......Page 280
Presentations of reductive Fischer groups......Page 293
A brief history of the ATLAS......Page 307