AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:21:43

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

Saturday October 16, 2004, 8:30 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Special Session on Semigroup Theory, I
Room 217, Furman
Organizers:
Matthew I. Gould, Vanderbilt University matthew.gould@vanderbilt.edu
Karen Ann Linton, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona kalinton@csupomona.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  The variety generated by the five-element Brandt Semigroup.
  Edmond W. H. Lee*, Simon Fraser University
  (999-16-107)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Endomorphism monoids of pseudocomplemented semilattices.
  M. E. Adams*, State University of New York at New Paltz
  J\"{u}rg Schmid, University of Bern
  (999-20-113)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Ideal extension and retraction properties in semigroups.
  Karen D. Aucoin*, McNeese State University
  (999-20-116)
- 10:10 a.m.
  Ideal extensions of locally inverse semigroups.
  Francis J. Pastijn*, Marquette University
  (999-20-65)

Saturday October 16, 2004, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Semigroup Theory, II
Room 217, Furman
Organizers:
Matthew I. Gould, Vanderbilt University matthew.gould@vanderbilt.edu
Karen Ann Linton, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona kalinton@csupomona.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Flatness Properties of $S$-posets.
  Sydney D Bulman-Fleming*, Wilfrid Laurier University
  (999-20-58)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Commutative coextensions.
  Pierre A. Grillet*, Tulane University
  (999-20-128)
- 3:30 p.m.
  On Ranks of Semigroups of Order-Preserving and Orientation-Preserving Transformations.
  Inessa Levi*, Western Illinois University
  (999-20-60)
- 4:00 p.m.
  $\mathcal{P}\!\mathcal{A}$-isomorphisms of orthodox semigroups.
  Simon M. Goberstein*, California State University, Chico
  (999-20-139)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Residuation on the bicyclic semigroup.
  Robert B McFadden*, University of Louisville
  (999-08-119)

Sunday October 17, 2004, 8:30 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Special Session on Semigroup Theory, III
Room 217, Furman
Organizers:
Matthew I. Gould, Vanderbilt University matthew.gould@vanderbilt.edu
Karen Ann Linton, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona kalinton@csupomona.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Maximal inverse semigroups of transformations.
  Boyko G. Gyurov*, University of Arkansas
  Boris M. Schein, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR
  (999-20-87)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Totally Ordered $E$-unitary Inverse Semigroups.
  Gracinda M. S. Gomes, Centro de \'{A}lgebra da Universidade de Lisboa (CAUL)
  Donald B. McAlister*, Northern Illinois University and CAUL
  (999-20-62)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Representation Theory of Finite Semigroups and Formal Language Theory.
  Jorge Almeida, University of Porto
  Stuart W. Margolis*, Bar-Ilan University
  Benjamin Steinberg, Carleton University
  Mikhail V. Volkov, University of the Urals
  (999-20-47)
- 10:10 a.m.
  The free idempotent-generated semigroup on a biordered set.
  Stuart Margolis, Bar Ilan University
  John C Meakin*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  (999-20-97)

Sunday October 17, 2004, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Semigroup Theory, IV
Room 217, Furman
Organizers:
Matthew I. Gould, Vanderbilt University matthew.gould@vanderbilt.edu
Karen Ann Linton, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona kalinton@csupomona.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Asymptotic growth of free spectra of finite semigroups.
  Steven Seif*, University of Louisville
  (999-20-229)
- 3:00 p.m.
  A finitely generated variety of semigroups whose finite membership problem is NP-hard.
  Ralph N McKenzie*, Vanderbilt University
  Michael Jackson, La Trobe University (Melbourne, Australia)
  (999-08-90)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Permutative semigroups whose congruences form a chain.
  Peter R. Jones*, Marquette University
  Attila Nagy, Budapest University of Technology and Economics
  (999-20-80)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Faithful Functors and Ample Semigroups.
  Victoria Gould, University of York
  Mark Kambites*, Carleton University
  (999-20-133)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Extensions of endomorphisms of free groups to their pro-finite completions.
  Mark Sapir*, Vanderbilt University
  (999-20-56)

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