Mircea Cimpoeaş
University Politehnica Bucharest & Simion Stoilow Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania

We study a class of finite groups, called almost monomial groups, which generalize the class of monomial groups and is connected with the theory of Artin $L$-functions. Our method of research is based on finding similarities with the theory of monomial groups, whenever it is possible.