Recommended Citation
Hurley, Ted. (2015). The annual GiG Groups in Galway.
Abstract
The GiG (Groups in Galway) conference, and related activity, has been
running annually since 1978 and is the longest running annual international
mathematical conference on a special topic. It has its origin from the inaugural
meeting of the IMS (Irish Mathematical Society) when Professor Martin Newell
proposed that instructional conferences be organised in various topics in Mathematics;
the first of these on Group Theory was held on May 12-13 1978 at UCG;
this one has continued annually ever since. The term GiG, Groups in Galway,
was penned in the Newsletter of the LMS (London Mathematical Society which
is the main UK mathematical society) in 1982 and that title has stuck with it
ever since. The conference and its resulting environment has attracted many
international experts to Galway.