AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:57

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

Friday March 12, 1999, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Structure and Representation Theory of Lattice-Ordered Groups and f-Rings, I
Room 203, W. W. Little Hall
Organizers:
Jorge Martinez, University of Florida martinez@math.ufl.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Coepic compactifications.
  Anthony W Hager*, Wesleyan University
  Jorge Martinez, University of Florida
  (940-06-265)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Embedding the algebra of all real-valued functions on a space X in a regular ring G(X) II; when G(X) is a C(Y).
  Melvin Henriksen*, Harvey Mudd College
  (940-06-113)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Model theory of real closed rings.
  Alex Prestel, Universitaet Konstanz
  Niels C. Schwartz*, Universit\"at Passau
  (940-06-160)
- 10:30 a.m.
  f-Rings and the Stone Weierstrass Theorem.
  Bernhard Banaschewski*, McMaster University
  (940-06-97)

Friday March 12, 1999, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Structure and Representation Theory of Lattice-Ordered Groups and f-Rings, II
Room 203, W. W. Little Hall
Organizers:
Jorge Martinez, University of Florida martinez@math.ufl.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Archimedean Extensions of Groups of Continuous Functions.
  Warren William McGovern*, Bowling Green State University
  (940-06-202)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Some ordered groups that are hard to divisibilize.
  W. Charles Holland*, Bowling Green State U.
  (940-06-301)
- 3:30 p.m.
  A characterization of lattice-ordered matrix algebras with the usual lattice order.
  Jingjing Ma*, The University of Toledo
  (940-06-149)
- 4:00 p.m.
  On the scarcity of lattice-ordered matrix algebras II.
  Stuart A Steinberg*, University of Toledo
  (940-06-80)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Wreath products with tyings.
  Richard N. Ball, University of Denver, Denver CO
  Stephen H. McCleary*, University of Denver, Denver CO (on leave for the academic year from Bowling Green State Univ, Bowling Green OH)
  (940-06-255)

Saturday March 13, 1999, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Structure and Representation Theory of Lattice-Ordered Groups and f-Rings, III
Room 203, W. W. Little Hall
Organizers:
Jorge Martinez, University of Florida martinez@math.ufl.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Nilpotent elements in totally ordered commutative rings.
  James J Madden*, Louisiana State University
  (940-06-270)
- 9:30 a.m.
  A classification of totally ordered positive commutative nil-monoids with 6,7, and 8 elements.
  Gretchen W Whipple*, Louisiana State University
  (940-06-133)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Properties of semigroup rings as f-rings.
  Chawne M. Kimber*, University of Florida
  (940-06-85)
- 10:30 a.m.
  $F^*$-rings are $O^*$.
  Piotr J Wojciechowski*, The University of Texas at El Paso
  (940-06-154)

Saturday March 13, 1999, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Structure and Representation Theory of Lattice-Ordered Groups and f-Rings, IV
Room 203, W. W. Little Hall
Organizers:
Jorge Martinez, University of Florida martinez@math.ufl.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  A Structure Theorem for Residuated Lattices.
  Constantine Tsinakis*, Vanderbilt University
  (940-06-322)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Lattice-Ordered Quotients.
  R H Redfield*, Hamilton College
  (940-06-171)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Hyper-special-valued lattice-ordered groups.
  Michael R. Darnel*, Indiana University South Bend
  Jorge Martinez, University of Florida
  (940-06-55)
- 4:00 p.m.
  A Noncompactifiable $Q$-Flow.
  Richard N. Ball*, University of Denver
  James N. Hagler, University of Denver
  (940-06-249)

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