Minicourse Magma - Syllabus

Lecture 1:
- Overview of Magma and the kinds of structures it can deal with
- Creation and investigation of graphs and digraphs and their automorphisms
- Methods for dealing with Cayley graphs

Lecture 2:
- Permutation groups
- Matrix groups
- Small groups database

Lecture 3:
- Finitely presented groups and their images
- Application to study of symmetric graphs, regular maps, etc.
- Other examples/applications showing Magma's capability

Lecture 4:
- Question and Answer session
 

Lecturer:

Marston Conder (University of Auckland, New Zealand) (slides, Magma demonstrations)