AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:21:27

Associate secretaries:
John L Bryant, AMS bryant@math.fsu.edu

Friday March 16, 2001, 8:30 a.m.-11:45 a.m.
Special Session on Algebras, Lattices, Varieties, I
Room 247, Gambrell Hall
Organizers:
George F. McNulty, University of South Carolina mcnulty@math.sc.edu
Ralph S. Freese, University of Hawaii ralph@math.hawaii.edu
James B. Nation, University of Hawaii jb@math.hawaii.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Submonoids of the Additive Monoid of Natural Numbers.
  Leslie Cohn*, The Citadel
  (963-06-148)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Semidistributive inverse semigroups.
  Katherine G Johnston-Thom*, University of Charleston, SC
  Peter R Jones, Marquette University
  (963-08-63)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Sheaf Representations Revisited.
  Stephen D Comer*, The Citadel
  (963-08-67)
- 10:00 a.m.
  The Controversy About Continuous Clustering.
  Melvin F Janowitz*, Dimacs-Rutgers University
  (963-62-45)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Posets That Locally Resemble Distributive Lattices: An Extension of Stanley's Theorem (with Connections to Buildings and Diagram Geometries).
  Jonathan D Farley*, Vanderbilt University
  Stefan E Schmidt, University of Mainz
  (963-06-235)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Canonical extensions of bounded distributive lattice expansions.
  Mai Gehrke, New Mexico State University
  Bjarni J\'onsson*, Vanderbilt University
  (963-06-112)

Friday March 16, 2001, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Algebras, Lattices, Varieties, II
Room 247, Gambrell Hall
Organizers:
George F. McNulty, University of South Carolina mcnulty@math.sc.edu
Ralph S. Freese, University of Hawaii ralph@math.hawaii.edu
James B. Nation, University of Hawaii jb@math.hawaii.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Solution of Birkhoff's problem and redefining the arithmetic of finite ordered sets.
  Ralph N McKenzie*, Vanderbilt University
  (963-06-108)
- 3:30 p.m.
  On the variety generated by tournaments.
  Miklos Maroti*, Vanderbilt University
  (963-08-180)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Varieties having Boolean factor congruences.
  Ross Willard*, University of Waterloo
  (963-08-95)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Structure of subdirectly irreducible algebras in finitely decidable locally finite varieties.
  Dejan Delic*, Vanderbilt University
  (963-08-199)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Interpretations Preserving Pseudorecusiveness.
  Benjamin Wells*, University of San Francisco
  (963-08-136)
- 5:30 p.m.
  A note on homomorphic images, subalgebras and various products.
  Boza R Tasic*, University of Waterloo, Canada
  (963-08-75)

Saturday March 17, 2001, 8:30 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
Special Session on Algebras, Lattices, Varieties, III
Room 247, Gambrell Hall
Organizers:
George F. McNulty, University of South Carolina mcnulty@math.sc.edu
Ralph S. Freese, University of Hawaii ralph@math.hawaii.edu
James B. Nation, University of Hawaii jb@math.hawaii.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Congruence lattices that force tranitivity.
  Steve W Seif*, University of Louisville
  (963-06-238)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Edge Algebras and Equational Bounds on the Finite Algebra Membership Problem for Varieties.
  Zoltan Szekely*, Gallaudet University
  (963-08-230)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Finite-basis problems and techniques.
  Kirby A Baker*, University of California, Los Angeles
  Ju Wang, Institute of Software, Academia Sinica, visiting U. of S. Carolina
  (963-08-227)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Compatibility of spaces with equations.
  Walter Taylor*, University of Colorado
  (963-08-107)

Saturday March 17, 2001, 3:00 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
Special Session on Algebras, Lattices, Varieties, IV
Room 247, Gambrell Hall
Organizers:
George F. McNulty, University of South Carolina mcnulty@math.sc.edu
Ralph S. Freese, University of Hawaii ralph@math.hawaii.edu
James B. Nation, University of Hawaii jb@math.hawaii.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Rectangulation: a new centrality concept.
  Keith A Kearnes*, University of Colorado
  Emil W Kiss, Eotvos Lorand University
  (963-08-89)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Definable Principal Congruences and Solvability.
  Matt A Valeriote*, McMaster University
  (963-08-87)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Dualizing a non-dualizable algebra.
  Robert W Quackenbush*, University of Manitoba
  (963-08-209)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Congruence-Orderable Quasivarieties.
  Don L Pigozzi*, Iowa State University
  (963-08-204)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Implementing Equational and Quasiequational Logic on the Web.
  Peter Jipsen*, Vanderbilt University
  (963-08-178)
- 6:00 p.m.
  Tarski theorems for self-dual varieties.
  R. Padmanabhan*, University of Manitoba
  (963-06-143)

Sunday March 18, 2001, 9:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Algebras, Lattices, Varieties, V
Room 247, Gambrell Hall
Organizers:
George F. McNulty, University of South Carolina mcnulty@math.sc.edu
Ralph S. Freese, University of Hawaii ralph@math.hawaii.edu
James B. Nation, University of Hawaii jb@math.hawaii.edu
- 9:30 a.m.
  Epimorphisms and dominions in varieties of lattices.
  David R Wasserman*, University of California, Berkeley
  (963-06-15)
- 10:00 a.m.
  The Variety Generated By Tournaments.
  Petar Markovic*, Vanderbilt University
  (963-08-239)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Extending partial projective planes.
  James B. Nation*, University of Hawaii
  (963-51-17)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Lattice tensor products.
  George A Gratzer*, University of Manitoba
  Matthew Greenberg, McGill University
  (963-06-155)
- 11:30 a.m.
  Congruence Lattice Problems and Related Topics.
  William A Lampe*, University of Hawaii
  (963-08-62)

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