AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:06

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Associate secretaries:
Andy R Magid, AMS amagid@ou.edu

Friday October 22, 1993, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Identities and Varieties of Algebraic Structures, I
Room 110, Student Services
- 8:30 a.m.
  On identities of some direct limits of hyperbolic groups.
  Alexander Yu Ol$'$shanskii*, Moscow State University, Russia
  (886-20-211)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Informal Discussion
- 9:30 a.m.
  Latest on the dimension subgroup problem.
  Narain Gupta*, University of Manitoba
  (886-20-73)
- 10:00 a.m.
  The Burnside problem on periodic groups.
  Sergei V. Ivanov*, McGill University
  (886-20-210)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Residual properties of free groups.
  Thomas S. Weigel*, University of Freiburg, Germany
  (886-20-190)

Friday October 22, 1993, 3:00 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
Special Session on Identities and Varieties of Algebraic Structures, II
Room 110, Student Services
- 3:00 p.m.
  In the shadow of the coproduct functor.
  George M. Bergman*, University of California, Berkeley
  (886-16-11)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Multilinear identities in characteristic p.
  Alexander R. Kemer*, Novosibirsk State University, Russia
  (886-16-141)
- 4:00 p.m.
  New central polynomials for the matrix algebras.
  Vesselin Drensky*, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
  (886-16-61)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Polynomial identities of minimal degree of M_n(F),n greater than or equal to 4.
  Alain D'Amour, Swarthmore College
  Michel L. Racine*, University of Ottawa,
  (886-16-107)
- 5:00 p.m.
  On minimal*--identities of n x n matrices.
  Antonino Giambruno*, University di Palermo, Italy
  Angela Valenti, University di Palermo, Italy
  (886-15-87)
- 5:30 p.m.
  A weak polynomial identity and a central polynomial of low degree for 4 X 4 matrices.
  Vesselin Drensky, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
  Giulia Maria Piacentini Cattaneo*, University di Tor Vergata,
  (886-15-60)
- 6:00 p.m.
  Equivalence of T_2---semiprime ideals of the free algebra.
  Onofrio M. Di Vincenzo*, University of Messina, Italy
  (886-16-86)

Saturday October 23, 1993, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Identities and Varieties of Algebraic Structures, III
Room 110, Student Services
- 8:00 a.m.
  Lattices of varieties.
  Ralph McKenzie*, University of California, Berkeley
  (886-20-174)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Lattices of equational theories.
  George McNulty*, University of South Carolina, Columbia
  (886-08-230)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Finitely presented groups and completely regular semigroups.
  K. S. Ajan, Marquette University
  F. J. Pastijn*, Marquette University
  (886-20-54)
- 9:30 a.m.
  The complexity of the word problem in semigroup varieties.
  Mark V. Sapir*, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
  (886-20-175)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Semigroup varieties with almost commuting fully invariant congruences on free objects.
  Michael V. Volkov*, Ural State University, Russia
  (886-20-231)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Existence varieties of regular semigroups.
  Peter R. Jones*, Marquette University
  (886-20-55)

Saturday October 23, 1993, 3:00 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
Special Session on Identities and Varieties of Algebraic Structures, IV
Room 110, Student Services
- 3:00 p.m.
  On additional laws in the Burnside problem on periodic groups.
  Efim Zelmanov*, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  (886-20-173)
- 3:30 p.m.
  The word problem for the variety bold B_n.
  Olga G. Kharlampovich*, McGill University
  (886-20-176)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Minimal varieties of lattice-ordered groups.
  W. Charles Holland*, Bowling Green State University
  Nikolai Ya Medvedev, Altai State University, Russia
  (886-06-01)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Some non-finitely based varieties of group representations.
  C. K. Gupta*, University of Manitoba
  A. N. Krasilnikov, Moscow State Pedagogical Institute, Russia
  (886-20-178)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Growth of varieties of group representations and the Gel'fand-Kirillov dimension.
  Samuel M. Vovsi*, Trenton State College
  (886-20-177)
- 5:30 p.m.
  On the additive groups of free objects in varieties of integral group representations.
  A. N. Krasilnikov*, Moscow State Pedagogical Institute, Russia
  (886-20-179)
- 6:00 p.m.
  Informal Discussion

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