Saturday, May 20, 2006; Morning Session

Combinatorics - Group Theory - Ring Theory

8:00-9:00 AM Coffee and Pastries; Registration
  Math Tower $ 7^{\text{th}}$ floor Lounge, MW 724
   
  COMBINATORICS SESSION
  (Cockins Hall - CH - 312)
   
8:30-9:20 AM James Geelen (University of Waterloo, Canada)
  Excluding a group-labelled graph
9:30-9:50 AM Sang-il Oum (Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta)
  Towards a Grid Theorem for Rank-width and Clique-width
   
10:00-10:30 AM BREAK
 
10:30-11:20 AM James Oxley
 
11:30-11:50 AM James Talmage Reid (The University of Mississippi, Oxford)
  Conjectures on Circuits and Clones in Matroids
12:00-12:20 PM Krishnasamy Arasu (Wright State University, Dayton)
  On a class of selfdual ternary codes
   
   
   
  GROUP THEORY SESSION
  (Eighteenth Ave Annex -EA - 170)
   
8:30-8:50 AM Radu Stancu (The Ohio State University, Columbus)
  Fusion systems of blocks of group algebras
9:00-9:20 AM Luise-Charlotte Kappe (Binghamton University, Binghamton)
  Products of commutators are not always commutators: Cassidy's example revisited.
9:30-9:50 AM Gabriela A. Mendoza (Binghamton University, Binghamton)
  For a given prime $ p$ , what is the smallest nonabelian group whose order is divisible by $ p$ ?
   
10:00-10:30 AM BREAK
   
10:30-10:50 AM Donald White (Kent State University, Kent)
  Nonsolvable Groups Satisfying the One-Prime Hypothesis (Part 1)
11:00-11:20 AM Mark L. Lewis (Kent State University, Kent)
  Nonsolvable Groups Satisfying the One-Prime Hypothesis (Part 2)
11:30-11:50 AM James Patrick Cossey (University of Arizona)
  Bounds on the number of lifts of a Brauer character of a solvable group
   
   
   
  THEORY OF RINGS AND MODULES SESSION
  (Eighteenth Ave Annex - EA - 160)
   
9:00-9:20 AM John Dauns (Tulane University, New Orleans)
  Relative flatness and purity
9:30-9:50 AM Blas Torecillas (University of Almeria, Spain)
  When is a coalgebra a generator?
10:00-10:20 AM Jae K. Park (Busan National University, South Korea)
  Osofsky compatible rings
10:30-10:50 AM Yiqiang Zhou (Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada)
  Baer and quasi-Baer properties of group rings
11:00-11:20 AM Gary F. Birkenmeier (University of Louisiana, Lafayette)
  Hulls for rings and modules from certain classes
11:30-11:50 AM Dinh Van Huynh (Ohio University, Athens)
  Some results on simple rings
12:00-12:20 PM Ashish Srivastava (Ohio University, Athens)
  Right finitely $ \Sigma$ -q-rings
   
   
   
   
   
   
12:30-2:00 PM LUNCH BREAK