AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:11

Program | Deadlines | Inquiries: meet@ams.org

Associate secretaries:
Robert J Daverman, AMS daverman@math.utk.edu

Friday March 18, 1994, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Infinite Groups and Group Rings, I
Room 201, Business and Economics
- 8:30 a.m.
  Using symbolic computer calculations to construct group representations.
  Thomas A. Fournelle*, University of Wisconsin, Parkside
  (890-20-54)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Are dimension quotients D_n(G)/lower case gamma_n(G) central?
  Narain Gupta*, University of Manitoba
  (890-20-120)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Semisimplicity of crossed products.
  Derek J. S. Robinson*, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  Eli Aljadeff, Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
  (890-20-14)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Near commutativity conditions in groups.
  Luise-Charlotte Kappe*, State University of New York, Binghamton
  Michael Tomkinson, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
  (890-20-35)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Some non-Specht multilinear commutator identities.
  C. Kanta Gupta*, University of Manitoba
  (890-20-119)

Friday March 18, 1994, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Infinite Groups and Group Rings, II
Room 201, Business and Economics
- 2:30 p.m.
  Computer generated results on the unit groups of modular group algebras.
  Donald B. Coleman, University of Kentucky
  Robert Sandling*, University of Manchester, United Kingdom
  (890-16-62)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Semiprimitivity of group algebras.
  Donald S. Passman*, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  (890-16-06)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Building on a counter-example to a conjecture of Hans Zassenhaus.
  Peter Floodstrand Blanchard*, University of Virginia
  (890-20-156)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Constructing units in ZG.
  S. K. Sehgal*, University of Alberta
  (890-16-16)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Units of infinite order in certain group rings.
  Gary Thompson*, Virginia Commonwealth University
  (890-20-09)
- 5:00 p.m.
  On the unit conjecture and the support of units in group algebras.
  Peter C. Pappas*, Vassar College
  (890-99-170)

Saturday March 19, 1994, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Infinite Groups and Group Rings, III
Room 201, Business and Economics
- 8:30 a.m.
  The generalized Wielandt subgroup of a group.
  James C. Beidleman, University of Kentucky
  Martyn R. Dixon*, University of Alabama
  Derek J. S. Robinson, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  (890-20-02)
- 9:00 a.m.
  A new characterization of totally projective groups.
  Paul Hill*, Auburn University, Auburn
  (890-20-47)
- 9:30 a.m.
  On periodic products of groups.
  Sergei Ivanov*, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  (890-20-31)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Relation modules of infinite groups.
  Martin J. Evans*, University of Alabama
  (890-20-102)
- 10:30 a.m.
  The isomorphism problem for cyclically pinched one-relator groups.
  Gerhard Rosenberger*, University of Dortmund, Germany
  (890-20-10)

Saturday March 19, 1994, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Infinite Groups and Group Rings, IV
Room 201, Business and Economics
- 2:30 p.m.
  Groups rich in finite quotients.
  Vonn Walter*, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  (890-20-12)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Images of periodic linear groups.
  Richard E. Phillips*, Michigan State University
  (890-20-01)
- 3:30 p.m.
  The automorphism tower problem revisited.
  Simon Thomas*, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
  (890-20-04)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Groups with few conjugacy classes of insoluble subgroups.
  Howard Smith*, Bucknell University
  (890-20-05)
- 4:30 p.m.
  n-free groups and the model theory of free groups.
  Benjamin Fine*, Fairfield University
  Anthony Gaglione, U. S. Naval Academy
  Gerhard Rosenberger, University of Dortmund, Germany
  Dennis Spellman, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  (890-20-118)

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