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Friday, May 21, 2010; Afternoon Session

12:00-1:00 PM Registration
Math Building -MA- $ 1^{\text{st}}$ floor
   
  GROUP THEORY SESSION
(Scott Lab -SO- 0040)
   
1:00-1:20 PM Luise-Charlotte Kappe (Binghamton University)
Nonabelian tensor products: the mystery of compatible actions
1:30-1:50 PM Arturo Magidin (University of Louisiana at Lafayette)
Nonabelian tensor squares and cartesians of nilpotent products: a preliminary report.
2:00-2:20 PM Arnold D. Feldman (Franklin & Marshall College)
A generalization of $ t$ -groups
2:30-2:50 PM Ben Brewster (Binghamton University)
Subgroups in direct products which satisfy the Frattini argument
3:00-3:30 PM BREAK
3:30-3:50 PM Michael Charles Slattery (Marquette University)
Character degrees of maximal class 5-groups
4:00-4:20 PM Derek Scott Robinson (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
The Schur multiplier of a generalized Baumslag-Solitar group
4:30-4:50 PM Primoz Moravec (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)
Unramified Brauer groups of finite and infinite groups
5:00-5:20 PM James Cossey (University of Akron)
An explicit bijection for the Alperin weight conjecture for the symmetric groups

  RING THEORY SESSION
(Math Building -MA- 240)
   
1:00-1:10 PM Dedication - The 2010 Ring Theory Session of the OSU-Denison Math Conference is dedicated to the memory of our colleague and friend John Dauns (1937-2009)
1:10-1:40 PM László Fuchs (Tulane University)
Weak-injective modules
1:50-2:10 PM Nguyen V. Dung (Ohio University)
On the endofiniteness of a key module over pure semisimple rings
2:20-2:40 PM Lee Klingler (Florida Atlantic University)
Unique decomposition of direct sums of ideals
2:50-3:10 PM Mary Flagg (University of Houston)
The Jacobson radical's role in isomorphism theorems
3:20-3:50 PM BREAK
3:50-4:10 PM L. Shen (Southeast University, China)
Small injectivity
4:20-4:40 PM Gangyong Lee (The Ohio State University)
The dual Rickart property for modules
4:50-5:10 PM Nil Orhan Ertas (Karabuk University, Turkey)
(*)-generalized projective modules and lifting modules
5:20-5:40 PM Papiya Bhattacharjee (Penn State Erie - The Behrend College)
Extensions of commutative rings
5:50-6:10 PM Jeremy Moore (Ohio University)
Algebras having bases consisting entirely of units

Saturday, May 22, 2010; Morning Session

8:00-9:00 AM Coffee and Pastries; Registration
   
  GROUP THEORY SESSION I
(Scott Lab -SO- 0024)
   
8:30-8:50 AM Ben Newton (Beloit College)
Solvability conditions for complex $ p$ -solvable linear groups
9:00-9:20 AM Jeffrey M. Riedl (University of Akron)
Faithful irreducible characters of subgroups of wreath product $ p$ -groups
9:30-9:50 AM Azhana Ahmad (Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia)
Conjugacy classes for 2-generator $ p$-groups of nilpotency class 2
10:00-10:30 AM BREAK
10:30-10:50 AM Thomas Michael Keller (Texas State University)
Groups with few conjugacy classes
11:00-11:20 AM Silvia Elena Onofrei (The Ohio State University)
A characteristic subgroup for fusion systems
11:30-11:50 AM Tim Walsh Bonner (Texas State University - San Marcos)
Normally serially monomial $ p$ -groups
   
  GROUP THEORY SESSION II
(Scott Lab -SO- 0040)
   
8:30-8:50 AM Martha Kilpack (Binghamton University)
Closure operators on the subgroup lattice of the group $ G$
9:00-9:20 AM Mark Pedigo (Saint Louis University)
The free nilpotent groups of finite rank - a preliminary report
9:30-9:50 AM Viji Z. Thomas (Binghamton University)
A general construction for the box-tensor product
10:00-10:30 AM BREAK
10:30-10:50 AM Jack Schmidt (University of Kentucky)
Finite solvable groups in which subnormal subgroups permute with system normalizers
11:00-11:20 AM Rohaidah Masri (Sultan Idris Education University - UPSI, Malaysia)
Groups whose the nonabelian tensor squares are abelian
11:30-11:50 AM Michael B. Ward (Western Oregon University)
Cayley-Sudoku tables and transversals

  RING THEORY SESSION
(Math Building -MA- 240)
   
9:00-9:20 AM T. Y. Lam (University of California, Berkeley)
Invertible commutators in rings, and determinantal formulas in linear algebra
9:30-9:50 AM Jose L. Garcia (University of Murcia, Spain)
Module theory for associative rings
10:00-10:20 AM Dinh Van Huynh (Ohio University)
A result on WV-rings
10:30-10:50 AM Hans Schoutens (City University of New York)
Stone representation theorems for Boolean, potent, and periodic rings
11:00-11:20 AM Jin Yong Kim (Kyung Hee University, South Korea)
On GP-injective essential maximal right ideals
11:30-11:50 AM Manfred Dugas (Baylor University)
Zassenhaus rings as idealizations of modules
12:00-12:20 PM Hai Dinh (Kent State University)
Structure and distances of some classes of constacyclic codes over Galois rings
   
12:00-2:00 PM LUNCH BREAK

Saturday, May 22, 2010; Afternoon Session

  GROUP THEORY SESSION I
(Scott Lab -SO- 0024)
   
2:00-2:20 PM Yong Yang (Texas State University at San Marcos)
Regular orbits of nilpotent subgroups of solvable groups
2:30-2:50 PM Anni Neumann (University of Tübingen, Germany)
Nilpotent subgroups of class $ \leq 2$ of maximal order
3:00-3:20 PM Elizabeth Wilcox (Binghamton University)
If the base of a wreath product is not characteristic
3:30-4:00 PM BREAK
4:00-4:20 PM Joseph Petrillo (Alfred University)
Counting subgroups in a direct product of finite cyclic groups
4:30-4:50 PM Peter Alan Brooksbank (Bucknell University)
On the derived length of a Coxeter group
5:00-5:20 PM Daniela B. Nikolova-Popova (Florida Atlantic University)
On the covering number of some sporadic simple groups
5:30-5:50 PM Anthony Brian Evans (Wright State University)
MOLS based on nonabelian groups
   
  GROUP THEORY SESSION II
(Scott Lab -SO- 0040)
   
2:00-2:20 PM Andrew Rajah (Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia)
Moufang loops of order 81
2:30-2:50 PM Petr Vojtechovsky (University of Denver)
Group theory in loop theory
3:00-3:20 PM Jenya Kirshtein (University of Denver)
On automorphism groups of Cayley-Dickson loops
3:30-4:00 PM BREAK
4:00-4:20 PM Tuval Foguel (Western Carolina University)
Solitary solvable subgroups I
4:30-4:50 PM Risto Atanasov (Western Carolina University)
Solitary solvable subgroups II
5:00-5:20 PM Clifton Edgar Ealy Jr. (Western Michigan University)
Ternary division rings and their groups

  RING THEORY SESSION
(Math Building -MA- 240)
   
2:00-2:20 PM Barbara Osofsky (Rutgers University)
Ring structures on injective hulls of right Artinian rings
2:30-2:50 PM Sergio R. López-Permouth (Ohio University)
Poor modules: the opposite of injectivity
3:00-3:20 PM Ashish Srivastava (St. Louis University)
$ \Sigma$ -injective modules: new characterizations and applications
3:30-4:00 PM BREAK
4:00-4:20 PM Adam Salminen (University of Evansville)
Modules which are isomorphic to their factor modules
4:30-4:50 PM Markus Schmidmeier (Florida Atlantic University)
The problem of a linear operator with two invariant subspaces
5:00-5:20 PM Manuel Reyes (University of California, Berkeley)
A (one-sided) prime ideal principle for noncommutative rings
5:30-5:50 PM Cosmin Roman (The Ohio State University-Lima)
Rickart property for projective modules
   
  CONFERENCE BANQUET
  (The Fawcett Center, 2400 Olentangy River Rd.)
6:30 PM Buffet Dinner

Sunday, MAY 23, 2010; Morning Session

8:00-9:00 AM Coffee and pastries
   
  GROUP THEORY SESSION
(Scott Lab -SO- 0024)
   
8:30-8:50 AM Dandrielle Lewis (Binghamton University)
The subgroup lattice for $ Q_8 \times Q_8$
9:00-9:20 AM Mark L. Lewis (Kent State University)
Lifts and generalized vertices for Brauer characters of solvable groups
9:30-9:50 AM James Wilson (The Ohio State University)
Isometry groups of bilinear maps
10:00-10:30 AM BREAK
10:30-10:50 AM Alexandre Turull (University of Florida)
The Brauer-Clifford group of $ G$ -rings
11:00-11:20 AM Fernando Guzman (Binghamton University)
Conjugation and inverse semigroups
11:30-11:50 AM Justin Lynd (The Ohio State University)
Quadratic offenders and Oliver's $ p$ -group conjecture

  RING THEORY SESSION
(Math Building -MA- 240)
   
9:00-9:20 AM André Leroy (Université d'Artois, France)
Pseudo-linear transformations and applications
9:30-9:50 AM Chris Holston (Ohio University)
Rings whose cyclics are direct sums of projective and CS or noetherian
10:00-10:20 AM Pramod Kanwar (Ohio University-Zanesville)
Clean elements and ring extensions
10:30-10:50 AM Ryan Schwiebert (Ohio University)
Faithful torsion modules
11:00-11:20 AM Pinar Aydoğdu (Hacettepe University, Turkey)
Some characterizations of $ \delta$ -semiperfect and $ \delta$ -perfect rings
11:30-11:50 AM Yuqing Chen (Wright State University)
Linear Kerdock codes and relative difference sets in Galois rings
12:00-12:20 PM Rad Dimitric
Coslenderness revisited