Alexander Cant, M. Sc.

Software

• finitequotients.gi (GAP 4 code),
  computation of equations related to isomorphisms between p-adic completions of finitely generated torsion-free nilpotent groups,
  with Bettina Eick
• pTree (a GAP 4 package),
  computation and visualization of subtrees of the coclass trees of p-groups of maximal class
• HallPoly (a GAP 4 package),
  computation of parameterized multiplication and powering polynomials for finitely generated torsion-free nilpotent groups,
  with Bettina Eick

Research interest

• (computational) group theory, esp. nilpotent groups
• symbolic computation

Teaching assistance

• Summer 2023:
  Seminar (Cryptography and Coding theory)
• Winter 2022/23:
  Codierungstheorie
• Summer 2022:
  Algebraische Zahlentheorie
• Winter 2021/22:
  Gruppentheorie
• Summer 2021:
  Lineare Algebra 2
• Winter 2020/21:
  Lineare Algebra 1
• Summer 2020:
  Gruppentheorie
• Winter 2019/20:
  Algebraische Zahlentheorie
• Summer 2019:
  Algebra
• Winter 2018/2019:
  Gruppentheorie (second half of the term)
  Seminar Algebra
• Summer 2018:
  Mathematische Methoden in der Kommunikationstheorie

Conferences

2020

• ICMS 2020, 13-16 July 2020, Braunschweig, Germany. Local co-organizer.

2019

• Norddeutsches Gruppentheorie-Kolloquium 2019, 21-22 June 2019, Halle (Saale), Germany.
• Workshop on Applied Algebra, 7-8 June 2019, Braunschweig, Germany.
  Poster: Hall polynomials for finitely generated torsion-free nilpotent groups.
• GAP Days Spring 2019, 18-22 March 2019, Halle (Saale), Germany.

2018

• Summer School on Logic and Algorithms in Group Theory, 10-14 September 2018, Bonn, Germany
• Norddeutsches Gruppentheorie-Kolloqium 2018, 29-30 June 2018, Braunschweig, Germany. Local co-organizer.
• Grüppchen Tagung 2018, 30-31 March 2018, Halle (Saale), Germany.
  Talk: Hall-Polynome für endlich erzeugte torsionsfreie nilpotente Gruppen.
• DMV Jahrestagung 2018, 5-9 March 2018, Paderborn, Germany.
  Talk: Hall polynomials for finitely generated torsion-free nilpotent groups.