The Canadian Mathematical Society Conference on Finite GroupsComing of Age was held at Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec on June 1528, 1982, with partial support from FCAC (Quebec) and NSERC (Canada)T.p. verso.

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Diagram geometries for sporadic groups ; Symmetric presentations and linear groups ; Rationality of certain zeta functions associated with modular representation theory ; Computing the character table of a Lie group ; Multiplicative products of eta unctions ; An _8 pproach to _1 ; The Monster and its nonassociative algebra ; Some consequences of the classification of finite simple groups ; Group representations and the resolution of rational double points ; _24 and certain automorphic forms ; Generalized root systems and characters ; The uniqueness of the FischerGriess Monster ; Efficiency of finite simple groups and their covering groups ; Buildings and sporadic groups ; On the head characters of the Monster simple group ; Residual geometries for sporadic and classical groups a survey ; Some consequences of the elementary relations in rm SL_n Francis Buekenhout ; Colin M Campbell ; Leonard Chastkofsky ; J H Conway and L Queen ; D Dummit H Kisilevsky and J McKay ; I B Frenkel J Lepowsky and A Meurman ; Robert L Griess Jr ; William M Kantor ; Horst Knorrer ; Geoffrey Mason ; R V Moody ; S P Norton ; Edmund F Robertson ; M A Ronan ; Stephen D Smith ; Stephen D Smith ; Robert Steinberg