Friday, May 19, 2006; Afternoon Session

Combinatorics - Group Theory - Ring Theory

12:00-1:00 PM Registration
  Denney Hall $ 2^{\text{nd}}$ floor
   
  COMBINATORICS SESSION
  (Denney Hall 238)
   
1:00-1:20 PM James Haglund (The Ohio State University, Columbus)
  Zeros for Rook Polynomials
1:30-1:50 PM Anthony Evans (Wright State University, Dayton)
  Latin squares, orthogonal mates, and groups
2:00-2:20 PM Holly Swisher (The Ohio State University, Columbus)
  Identities between Thompson Series and Rogers-Ramanujan Functions
2:30-2:50 PM Niranjan Balachandran (The Ohio State University, Columbus)
  Steiner 3-designs: Results Old and New
   
3:00-3:30 PM BREAK
   
3:30-3:50 PM Steve Milne (The Ohio State University, Columbus)
  $ C_{\ell}$ Mock Theta Functions
4:00-4:20 PM Niraj Khare (The Ohio State University, Columbus)
  Graphs with restricted valency and matching numbers
4:30-4:50 PM Rhodes Peele (Auburn University, Montgomery)
  Bell and Stirling Numbers for Graphs
   
   
   
  GROUP THEORY SESSION
  (Denney Hall 253)
   
1:00-1:20 PM James C. Beidleman (University of Kentucky, Lexington)
  Groups in which the hypercentral factor group is a $ \mathcal T$ - group
1:30-1:50 PM Matthew Faran Ragland (Auburn University, Montgomery)
  Note on $ \mathcal{PST}$ -groups
2:00-2:20 PM Joseph Petrillo (Alfred University, Alfred)
  Transitive and Persistent Subgroups
2:30-2:50 PM Ákos Seress (The Ohio State University, Columbus)
  Extremely primitive groups
   
3:00-3:30 PM BREAK
   
3:30-3:50 PM Fernando Guzman (Binghamton University, Binghamton)
  Four-variable associative laws for group commutators
4:00-4:20 PM Olga Patricia Salazar-Diaz (Binghamton University, Binghamton)
  R. Thompson's group $ V$ from a dynamical viewpoint
4:30-4:50 PM Lawrence E. Wilson (Center for Communications Research, San Diego)
  Jordan Decomposition in Integral Group Rings
   
   
   
  THEORY OF RINGS AND MODULES SESSION
  (Denney Hall 250)
   
1:00-1:20 PM George Szeto (Bradley University, Peoria)
  On Galois algebras satisfying the fundamental theorem
1:30-1:50 PM Enoch Lee (Auburn University, Montgomery)
  Row-finite matrices and power series near-rings
2:00-2:20 PM Pedro Guil-Asensio (University of Murcia, Spain)
  Indecomposable, flat cotorsion modules
2:30-2:50 PM Victor Camillo (University of Iowa, Iowa City)
  A generalization of dual isomorphism theorem
3:00-3:20 PM Nguyen Viet Dung (Ohio University, Zanesville)
  Endoproperties of modules and pure semisimple rings
3:30-3:50 PM Hai Dinh (Kent State University, Trumbull)
  Complete distances of negacyclic codes of length $ 2^s$ over $ \mathbb{Z}_{2^a}$
4:00-4:20 PM Jay Wood (Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo)
  Code equivalence and finite Frobenius rings
4:30-4:50 PM Anjana Kaila (Punjabi University, India)
  Hypercentral units in alternative loop rings
5:00-5:20 PM Mohamed Saleh (Birzeit University, Palestine)
  Some open questions on weak-injectivity and weak-projectivity