SEMINAR: Groups and Combinatorics Seminar: Simple automorphic loops

Time and place: 16:00 Friday 28 October in Weatherburn LT

Speaker: Michael Giudici (UWA)

Title: Simple automorphic loops

Abstract: A loop is a set Q with binary operation * such that the Cayley table for * is a Latin square and there is a neutral element 1 such that 1*x=x*1=x for all x in Q. Groups are examples of what are called automorphic loops. In this talk I will discuss a project in progress with Colva Roney-Dougal that is attempting to classify all simple automorphic loops.