Sunday, MAY 21, 2006; Morning Session

Combinatorics - Group Theory - Ring Theory

8:00-9:00 AM COFFEE AND PASTRIES
   
  COMBINATORICS SESSION
  (Cockins Hall - CH - 312)
   
8:30-8:50 AM Bogdan Oporowski (Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge)
 
9:00-9:20 AM Steve Szabo (Ohio University, Athens)
  Columns of Uniform Color in a Cyclically Repeated Pattern of 3 Colors
9:30-9:50 AM Peter Hamburger (Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne)
  Routing sets in the integer lattice
   
10:00-10:30 AM BREAK
   
10:30-10:50 AM Qing Xiang (University of Delaware, Newark)
  A symplectic Hamada formula
11:00-11:20 AM Laura Stevens (The Ohio State University, Columbus)
  Generalizations of Selberg's Integral
11:30-11:50 AM Neil Robertson (The Ohio State University, Columbus)
  Towards a Converse to Cook Theorem in Complexity Theory
   
   
   
  GROUP THEORY SESSION
  (Eighteenth Ave Annex - EA - 170)
   
8:30-8:50 AM Tuval Shmuel Foguel (Auburn University, Montgomery)
  A Generalization of Supersolvability
9:00-9:30 AM Edith Adan-Bante (University of Southern Mississippi Gulf Coast, Long Beach)
  Homogeneous Products of Conjugacy Classes
9:30-9:50 AM Arnold David Feldman (Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster)
  Characterizing injectors in finite solvable groups
   
10:00-10:30 AM BREAK
   
10:30-10:50 AM Bret Jordan Benesh (Harvard University, Cambridge)
  A Classification of Certain Maximal Subgroups of Symmetric Groups
11:00-11:20 AM Charles Holmes (Miami University, Oxford)
  Finding Eigenvectors in the Minimal Polynomial
11:30-11:50 AM Anthony Michael Gaglione (U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis)
  An Embedding Theorem for Groups Universally Equivalent to Free Nilpotent Groups
   
   
   
  THEORY OF RINGS AND MODULES SESSION
  (Eighteenth Ave Annex - EA - 160)
   
9:00-9:20 AM Greg Marks (St. Louis University, St. Louis)
  On annelidean, Bézout and distributive rings
9:30-9:50 AM Hans Schoutens (City University of New York, New York)
  Ideal theory in local rings of finite embedding dimension
10:00-10:20 AM Alina Duca (University of Manitoba, Canada)
  Description of the injective modules over the first Weyl algebra
10:30-10:50 AM Warren McGovern (Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green)
  Neat Bézout domains are elementary divisor domains
11:00-11:20 AM Philip Ehrlich (Ohio University, Athens)
  Absolute arithmetic continuum and the unification of all numbers great and small