Saturday, May 20, 2006; Afternoon Session

Combinatorics - Group Theory - Ring Theory

  COMBINATORICS SESSION
  (Cockins Hall - CH - 312)
   
2:00-2:20 PM Thomas Zaslavsky (Binghamton University, Binghamton)
  A Complicated Tutte Invariant
2:30-2:50 PM Daniel Slilaty (Wright State University, Dayton)
  Regular signed-graphic matroids
3:00-3:20 PM Rigoberto Florez (University of South Carolina, Sumter)
  Minimal non-orientable matroids in a projective plane
   
3:30-4:00 PM BREAK
   
4:00-4:20 PM Neil White (University of Florida)
  Matroids and Coxeter Matroids
4:30-4:50 PM Doug Kelly (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
  Evolutionary Game Theory and the Iterated Prisoner Dilemma
5:00-5:20 PM Joseph Bonin (The George Washington University, Washington D.C.)
  Cyclic Flats and Transversal Matroids
   
   
   
  GROUP THEORY SESSION
  (Eighteenth Ave Annex - EA - 170)
   
2:00-2:20 PM Jeffrey M. Riedl (University of Akron, Akron)
  Orders of elements of subgroups of wreath product $ p$ -groups
2:30-2:50 PM Thomas Michael Keller (Texas State University, San Marcos)
  Inductive arguments for the non-coprime $ k(GV)$ -problem
3:00-3:20 PM Joseph Patrick Smith (Binghamton University, Binghamton)
  Groups Whose Normalizers Form a Lattice
   
3:30-4:00 PM BREAK
   
4:00-4:20 PM David Arden Jackson (Saint Louis University, St. Louis)
  The Layer Lemma
4:30-4:50 PM Julianne Rainbolt (Saint Louis University, St. Louis)
  The Weyl Group and Coxeter Elements of $ U(n,q)$
5:00-5:20 PM Adam Salminen (The Ohio State University, Columbus)
  On the Sources of Simple Modules in Nilpotent Blocks
   
   
   
  THEORY OF RINGS AND MODULES SESSION
  (Eighteenth Ave Annex - EA - 160)
   
2:00-2:20 PM Parvathi Sivasubramaniam (Ramanujan Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics, India
  Class of diagram algebras
2:30-2:50 PM Walter Burgess (University of Ottawa, Canada)
  On the quasi-stratified algebras of Liu and Paquette
3:00-3:20 PM Dinesh Khurana (Panjab University, India)
  Clean rings and modules
3:30-3:50 PM Pramod Kanwar (Ohio University, Zanesville)
  Semilocal continuous group algebras
4:00-4:20 PM Cosmin Roman (The Ohio State University, Lima)
  On $ \mathcal K$ -nonsingularity and continuous modules
4:30-4:50 PM Markus Schmidmeier (Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton)
  Orthogonal covers of graphs via module endomorphisms
   
   
   
   
   
   
  CONFERENCE BANQUET
  (Holiday Inn on the Lane)
6:00 PM Cash Bar
7:00 PM Buffet Dinner