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