Ohio State University - Denison Conference 2008

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12:00-1:00 PM	Registration
	Math Tower -MW- 7th floor

	GROUP THEORY SESSION
	(Psychology Building -PS- 002)

1:00-1:20 PM	Francis C. Y. Tang (University of Waterloo)
	Separability properties of certain 1-relator groups
1:30-1:50 PM	Fernando Guzman (Binghamton University)
	Associativity of the Commutator Operation in Groups
2:00-2:20 PM	Ilir Snopce (Binghamton University)
	Normal zeta functions of some pro-p groups
2:30-2:50 PM	Tuval Foguel (Auburn Montgomery)
	Bol-Loops of Odd Prime Exponent
2:50-3:30 PM	BREAK

3:30-3:50 PM	Stephen M Gagola III (The University of Arizona)
	Sylow's Theorem for finite Moufang loops
4:00-4:20 PM	Joseph Patrick Smith (AUM)
	Groups in which Every Subgroup of the Norm is Normal
4:30-4:50 PM	Charles S. Holmes (Miami University)
	The Degree of a Minimal Polynomial

8:00-9:00 AM	Coffee and Pastries; Registration
	Math Building -MA- 105

	COMBINATORICS SESSION
	(Math Tower -MW- 154)

8:30-8:50 AM	Niranjan Balachandran (The Ohio State University)
	A $\lambda$ -Large Type Theorem for Candelabra Systems
9:00-9:20 AM	Suhkjin Hur (The Ohio State University)
	The Kuratowski covering conjecture for graphs of order 10
9:30-9:50 AM	Dursun Bulutoglu (Air Force Institute of Technology)
	Classification of Orthogonal Arrays by Integer Programming
10:00-10:30 AM	BREAK

10:30-10:50 AM	Yuqing Chen (Wright State University)
	Relative difference sets from additive Hadamard cocycles
11:00-11:20 AM	Xiaoyu Liu (Wright State University)
	An equivalence of Ward's bound and its application to nonlinear divisible codes
11:30-11:50 AM	Xiangqian Zhou (Wright State University)
	On -splitting families

	GROUP THEORY SESSION I
	(Journalism Building -JR- 371)

8:30-8:50 AM	Harald Eric Ellers (Allegheny College)
	Branching Rules for Specht Modules
9:00-9:20 AM	Kenneth Walter Johnson (Penn State Abington)
	Fusions between character tables of groups
9:30-9:50 AM	Mark L. Lewis (Kent State University)
	Generalizing Camina groups and their character tables
9:50-10:30 AM	BREAK

10:30-10:50 AM	Alexandre Turull (University of Florida)
	The Brauer-Clifford group and modular representations
11:00-11:20 AM	Ahmad Alghamdi (Umm AlQura University Makkah)
	On Current Conjectures in Block Theory
11:30-11:50 AM	Adam Salminen (University of Evansville)
	Defect zero blocks acted on by -groups for $p\geq 5$

	GROUP THEORY SESSION II
	(Scott Laboratory -SO- 0040)

8:30-8:50 AM	Julia Chifman (University of Kentucky)
	Toric ideals of phylogenetic invariants for the general group-based model on claw trees $K_{1,n}$
9:00-9:20 AM	Thomas Michael Keller (Texas State University)
	A lower bound for the number of conjugacy classes of finite groups
9:30-9:50 AM	Jeffrey Riedl (University of Akron)
	Conjugacy Classes of Subgroups of p-Groups
9:50-10:30 AM	BREAK

10:30-10:50 AM	Jack B.A. Schmidt (University of Kentucky)
	Just-non-PT groups
11:00-11:20 AM	Keyan Yang (Ohio State University)
	Orbit Equivalent Permutation Groups
11:30-11:50 AM	Clifton Edgar Ealy (Western Michigan University)
	Symmetric designs over ternary rings

	THEORY OF RINGS AND MODULES SESSION
	(Math Building -MA- 240)

9:00-9:20 AM	Dinh Van Huynh (Ohio University, Athens)
	Characterizations of some rings with chain conditions
9:30-9:50 AM	Thuyet Van Le (Hue University, Vietnam)
	Some characterizations of QF-rings via injectivity and small injectivity
10:00-10:20 AM	Zak Mesyan (USC, Los Angeles)
	Minimal extensions of rings
10:30-10:50 AM	Brian Blackwood (Ohio University, Athens)
	On parallel sums and invariance of harmonic mean
11:00-11:20 AM	Pramod Kanwar (Ohio University, Zanesville)
	Lie Regular Units
11:30-12:10 AM	Jae Keol Park (Busan National University, South Korea)
	Factor Rings of Quasi-Baer Rings by Prime Radicals





12:30-2:00 PM	LUNCH BREAK

	COMBINATORICS SESSION
	(Math Tower -MW- 154)

2:00-2:40 PM	Bruce Carl Berndt (University of Illinois)
	Cranks - Really the Final Problem
2:50-3:10 PM	Jon Derek Stadler, Capital University
	Juggling sequences with restricted heights
3:15-3:50 PM	BREAK

3:50-4:30 PM	Stephen Carl Milne (The Ohio State University)
	Sums of squares and the Leech lattice
4:40-5:10 PM	Verne E. Leininger (Bridgewater College)
	Quadratic q-series

	GROUP THEORY SESSION
	(Psychology Building -PS- 002)

2:00-2:20 PM	Derek Scott Robinson (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
	Groups in which every subgroup is closed in the profinite topology
2:30-2:50 PM	Dandrielle Cherie Lewis (Binghamton University)
	Characterization of Abnormal Subgroups in a Finite Central Product
3:00-3:20 PM	Matthew Faran Ragland (Auburn University Montgomery)
	Strong Sylow Systems and Mutually Permutable Products
3:20-4:00 PM	BREAK

4:00-4:20 PM	Joseph Petrillo (Alfred University)
	An Introduction to Transitive and Persistent Subgroups
4:30-4:50 PM	Khaled Al-Sharo (Al al-Bayt University, Jordan)
	Groups in which the maximal subgroups of the Sylow subgroups are -semipermutable
5:00-5:20 PM	Jason Walter Elliot (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
	Central Extensions of Divisible Groups by Abelian Groups

	THEORY OF RINGS AND MODULES SESSION
	(Math Building -MA- 240)

2:00-2:20 PM	Sergio R. Lopez-Permouth (Ohio University, Athens)
	Connections between various generalizations of the concept of cyclicity of codes
2:30-2:50 PM	Nguyen Viet Dung (Ohio University, Zanesville)
	Rings characterized by finendo modules
3:00-3:20 PM	Mercedes Siles Molina (Universidad de Malaga, Spain)
	Finiteness conditions on Leavitt path algebras
3:30-3:50 PM	Hans Schoutens (City University of New York, New York)
	Weighted Grothendieck groups
4:00-4:20 PM	Philipp S. Rothmaler (CUNY, New York)
	Definable subcategories of modules
4:30-5:10 PM	Toma Albu (S. Stoilow Institute of Mathematics, Romania)
	Locally finitely generated Grothendieck Categories and Simple Objects






	CONFERENCE BANQUET
	(Holiday Inn on the Lane)
6:00 PM	Cash Bar
6:30 PM	Buffet Dinner

8:00-9:00 AM	COFFEE AND PASTRIES

	COMBINATORICS SESSION
	(Math Tower -MW- 154)

9:30-9:50 AM	K.T. Arasu (Wright State University)
	On Two-Circulant Weighing Matrices
10:00-10:20 AM	Nishali Mehta (The Ohio State University)
	Graph games with restricted degrees
10:20-11:00 AM	BREAK

11:00-11:20 AM	Nuh Aydin (Kenyon College)
	Search for Good Linear Codes
11:30-11:50 AM	Christopher Matthew McClain (The Ohio State University)
	The Clique Chromatic Index of Line Graphs

	GROUP THEORY SESSION
	(Psychology Building -PS- 002)

8:30-8:50 AM	Arturo Magidin (University of Louisiana at Lafayette)
	Capability of semiextraspecial groups. Preliminary Report.
9:00-9:20 AM	Viji Thomas (Binghamton University)
	The Nonabelian Tensor Product of Finite Groups is Finite: A Homology Free Proof
9:30-9:50 AM	Nor Muhainiah Mohd Ali (Universiti Teknologi Malaysia)
	Using GAP to Compute Homological Invariants of 2-Generator Non-Torsion Groups of Nilpotency Class Two
9:50-10:30 AM	BREAK

10:30-10:50 AM	Elizabeth Wilcox (Binghamton University)
	Certain Normal Subgroups of Complete Groups
11:00-11:20 AM	Arnold D. Feldman (Franklin & Marshall College)
	Lattice Properties, Normality, and Subnormality in Finite Groups
11:30-11:50 AM	Luise-Charlotte Kappe (Binghamton University)
	On -Scorza groups

	THEORY OF RINGS AND MODULES SESSION
	(Math Building -MA- 240)

9:30-9:50 AM	Hai Q. Dinh (Kent State University, Warren)
	Constacyclic codes of length over $\mathbb{F}_{p^m}+u\mathbb{F}_{p^m}$
10:00-10:20 AM	Benigno R. Parra (Ohio University, Athens)
	Rational Power Series and Periodicity of Sequences
10:30-10:50 AM	Gangyong Lee (The Ohio State University, Columbus)
	Rickart modules
11:00-11:20 AM	Dinh Hai Hoang (Mahidol University, Thailand)
	A weaker form of p-injectivity
11:30-11:50 AM	Cosmin Roman (The Ohio State University)
	TBA

Conference Program