AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Sunday, October 16, 2005 01:09:10

Eastern Section Meeting
Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, October 8-9, 2005
Meeting #1009

• Saturday October 8, 2005, 9:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Infinite Groups, I
  Room 120, Olin Language Center
  Organizers:
  Anthony M. Gaglione, United States Naval Academy amg@usna.edu
  Benjamin Fine, Fairfield University fine@mail.fairfield.edu
  Dennis Spellman, Philadelphia University spellmand@philau.edu
  

  • 9:30 a.m.
    Potentially Positive Words in F(a,b).
    Richard Z Goldstein*, University at Albany
    (1009-20-47)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Transitivity of normality and pronormal subgroups.
    Igor Ya Subbotin*, National University
    (1009-20-56)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On outer automorphism groups of certain Seifert groups.
    Francis C. Y. Tang*, University of Waterloo
    (1009-20-151)
• Saturday October 8, 2005, 2:30 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Infinite Groups, II
  Room 120, Olin Language Center
  Organizers:
  Anthony M. Gaglione, United States Naval Academy amg@usna.edu
  Benjamin Fine, Fairfield University fine@mail.fairfield.edu
  Dennis Spellman, Philadelphia University spellmand@philau.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Solving One Variable Equations in Free Groups.
    Robert Gilman*, Stevens Institute of Technology
    (1009-20-179)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    On subsemigroups of free inverse semigroups.
    Lev M Shneerson*, Hunter College of CUNY
    (1009-20-115)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Asymptotic density in free and free abelian groups.
    Ilya Kapovich, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Igor Rivin, Temple University
    Paul Schupp, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Vladimir Shpilrain*, The City College of New York
    (1009-20-54)
• Sunday October 9, 2005, 10:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Infinite Groups, III
  Room 120, Olin Language Center
  Organizers:
  Anthony M. Gaglione, United States Naval Academy amg@usna.edu
  Benjamin Fine, Fairfield University fine@mail.fairfield.edu
  Dennis Spellman, Philadelphia University spellmand@philau.edu
  

  • 10:00 a.m.
    Homological invariants and capability of infinite groups of nilpotency class two.
    Luise-Charlotte Kappe*, SUNY at Binghamton
    Norhaniza Sarmin, University Teknologi Malaysia
    (1009-20-106)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Computing the nonabelian tensor square of finitely generated groups.
    Robert Fitzgerald Morse*, University of Evansville
    (1009-20-132)
• Sunday October 9, 2005, 2:30 p.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Special Session on Infinite Groups, IV
  Room 120, Olin Language Center
  Organizers:
  Anthony M. Gaglione, United States Naval Academy amg@usna.edu
  Benjamin Fine, Fairfield University fine@mail.fairfield.edu
  Dennis Spellman, Philadelphia University spellmand@philau.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Nielsen equivalence classes and T-systems of group presentations.
    Martin J. Evans*, University of Alabama
    (1009-20-201)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Linear groups with rank restrictions on the subgroups of infinite central dimension.
    Olga Yu Dashkova, University of Dnepropetrovsk, Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine
    Martyn R. Dixon*, University of Alabama
    Leonid A. Kurdachenko, University of Dnepropetrovsk, Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine
    (1009-20-50)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Problem Session.