Six-page reports:
The following is a list of topics suitable for the reports, due on 21 May 2021
at 5pm. If you would like to choose your own topic, please first ask for
permission.
Burnside's problem,
Burnside's theorem,
Cayley graphs,
character theory,
class groups,
Coxeter groups,
conjugacy class equation,
discrete valuation rings,
elliptic curves,
Fuchsian groups,
Galois groups,
group actions,
Hilbert's basis theorem,
Hilbert's Nullstellensatz,
homogeneous spaces,
homology groups,
Lie groups,
Nilpotent groups,
Ore's conjecture,
principal ideal domains (PIDs),
projective linear group,
root systems,
representations of groups,
the Grigorchuk group,
the modular group,
the Monster,
the socle of a group,
the word problem,
Thompson's group F,
Weyl groups,
wreath products
Reports should be prepared in LaTeX using the following
template.
To turn this into a pdf documents resembling something like
this,
you may also need to download the
style file.
Please do not change the margins or font size of the .tex document.
Old exams:
The 2013 Exam (Ole's worked out Solutions, probably all wrong.)
The 2014 Exam (Sam's worked out Solutions, 100% correct.)
The 2015 Exam (Ole's worked out Solutions, probably all wrong.)
You can download the assignment on Coxeter groups, with worked out solutions here.