AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, October 29, 2005 01:24:04

2005 Fall Central Section Meeting
Lincoln, NE, October 21-23, 2005
Meeting #1011

• Friday October 21, 2005, 1:45 p.m.-3:35 p.m.
  Special Session on Universal Algebra and Order, I
  Room 208, Oldfather Hall
  Organizers:
  Jonathan D. Farley, Harvard University lattice@math.harvard.edu
  John William Snow, Sam Houston State University jsnow@shsu.edu
  Japheth L. M. Wood, Chatham College jwood@chatham.edu
  

  • 1:45 p.m.
    Algebraic characterizations for topological separation properties.
    Wolfram Bentz*, University of Waterloo
    (1011-06-130)
  • 2:15 p.m.
    Relation Algebras and Weak Representationis.
    Jeremy F Alm*, Iowa State University
    (1011-03-349)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    Message Authentication Codes and Quasigroup.
    Kristen Meyer*, Iowa State University
    (1011-17-168)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Duality for central algebras.
    Jonathan D.H. Smith*, Department of Mathematics, Iowa State University
    (1011-08-173)
• Saturday October 22, 2005, 8:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Universal Algebra and Order, II
  Room 108, Avery Hall
  Organizers:
  Jonathan D. Farley, Harvard University lattice@math.harvard.edu
  John William Snow, Sam Houston State University jsnow@shsu.edu
  Japheth L. M. Wood, Chatham College jwood@chatham.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Greedy Algebras.
    Theodore A. Rice*, Iowa State University
    (1011-08-183)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    The poset structure of a sum of Priestley spaces.
    R. N. Ball*, University of Denver, Denver, Colorado
    A. Pultr, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
    J. Sichler, University of Manitoba, Winnepeg, Canada
    (1011-06-323)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Approximate satisfaction of identities (continued).
    Walter Taylor*, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA
    (1011-08-316)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Lattices of Compatible Topologies for Topological Models.
    Matt Insall*, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Missouri - Rolla
    (1011-06-66)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Countable Almost Rigid Heyting Algebras.
    M. E. Adams*, State University of New York at New Paltz
    Ale\v{s} Pultr, Charles University
    (1011-06-35)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Finite Mal'tsev Algebras.
    Keith Kearnes, Department of Mathematics, University of Colorado at Boulder
    Agnes Szendrei*, Department of Mathematics, University of Colorado at Boulder
    (1011-08-278)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    The existence of a near-unanimity term in a finite algebra is decidable.
    Mikl\'os Mar\'oti*, Bolyai Institute, University of Szeged, Hungary
    (1011-08-134)
• Saturday October 22, 2005, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Universal Algebra and Order, III
  Room 108, Avery Hall
  Organizers:
  Jonathan D. Farley, Harvard University lattice@math.harvard.edu
  John William Snow, Sam Houston State University jsnow@shsu.edu
  Japheth L. M. Wood, Chatham College jwood@chatham.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Numerical invariants for varieties of algebras.
    Joel Berman*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1011-06-102)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Morphisms on Coalgebras.
    Key One Chung*, Iowa State University, Department of Mathematics
    (1011-06-129)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Structural Completeness in Algebras of Logic.
    Jeffrey S. Olson*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1011-06-22)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    The equational complexity of Vi{\v s}in's algebra.
    George F. McNulty*, University of South Carolina
    Zoltan Szekely, Gallaudet University
    Ross Willard, University of Waterloo
    (1011-08-260)
• Sunday October 23, 2005, 8:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Universal Algebra and Order, IV
  Room 108, Avery Hall
  Organizers:
  Jonathan D. Farley, Harvard University lattice@math.harvard.edu
  John William Snow, Sam Houston State University jsnow@shsu.edu
  Japheth L. M. Wood, Chatham College jwood@chatham.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Almost Distributive Sublattices and Congruence Heredity.
    John W Snow*, Sam Houston State University
    (1011-06-32)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    When voter preferences are partially ordered.
    Michael Ackerman, Bellarmine University
    Sul-Young Choi, LeMoyne College
    Peter Coughlin, University of Maryland
    Eric Gottlieb, Rhodes College
    Japheth Wood*, Chatham College
    (1011-06-263)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Tensor Products of Semilattices, Semimodularity and Supersolvability (A Problem of E. T. Schmidt from 1974 and Some Conjectures of Quackenbush from 1985).
    Jonathan David Farley*, Center for International Security, Stanford University
    (1011-06-299)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Nondualizability of finite algebras with a semilattice operation.
    David M. Clark, SUNY at New Paltz
    Brian A. Davey, La Trobe University
    Jane G. Pitkethly, La Trobe University
    Ross Willard*, University of Waterloo
    (1011-06-394)