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Subject: SYMBOLIC COMPUTATION SEMINAR
Keywords: Professor John McKay, Concordia University, Montreal, will speak on 
          "Computation of Galois Groups".
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Date: 24 May 89 19:32:04 GMT
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DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO
SEMINAR ACTIVITIES

SYMBOLIC COMPUTATION SEMINAR

                    -Tuesday, May 30, 1989

Professor  John McKay of Concordia University Montreal,
will speak on "Computation of Galois Groups"

TIME:                 3:30 p.m.

ROOM:              MC 1304

ABSTRACT

I  shall discuss the developments of the past decade in
automating   the  computation  of  Galois  groups  from
polynomials  determining  splitting  fields.  The first
and  (to  date)  only implementation is Ron Sommeling's
code  on  maple.   If  time  permits,  I  shall  sketch
developments  in  solving  the  inverse problem:  Which
groups  are  realisable as Galois groups?  The computer
has played a critical role in this work.